In Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271–1368, Leqi Yu has conducted comprehensive research on jiehua or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools such as rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder’s art, which led to Chinese elites’ belittlement and won Mongol patrons’ admiration. Yu suggests that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate.
UK-based landscape designer Hutchison melds hand drawing techniques and digital techniques in his own practice. Here he shows students and professionals how to do the same, and he brings to the forefr
For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as SymbolicForm has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of centralprojection, or perspective, other equally impo
The book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for, the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture. The presentation focuses on drawi
An elegant presentation of stunning and inspiring architectural drawings from antiquity to the present dayThroughout history, architects have relied on drawings both to develop their ideas and communi
We are in the second decade of the 21st century and, as with most things, the distinction between digital and analogue has become tired and inappropriate. This is also true in the world of architectur
Drawing on recent computer and cognitive science, Mitchell (architecture, Harvard) explores the languages of architectural form and graphic composition to illuminate the underlying concepts of design.
Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually. Going beyond the how-to drawing manual, this book provides an instrumental approach
Founded in 1990, Palmbout Urban Landscapes is now one of the leading urban planning offices in the Netherlands. They have established a profile not only in the field of the relationship between urban
"The Death of Drawing explains how the shift from drawing by to hand to using building information models (BIM) is happening and the effect of this on how architects think and work. Author David Schee
"The Death of Drawing explains how the shift from drawing by to hand to using building information models (BIM) is happening and the effect of this on how architects think and work. Author David Schee
Architect Leon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images,without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try toplease or flatter th
How architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the understanding of architecture.Prior to the 1970s, bu
