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Summary
This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture. The text identifies the inauguration of architectural theory within the craftsmanship of architectural drawings and emphasises a non-division between the mind and the hand in the facture of drawings.Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasise speed, nor incorporates many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing drawings and for drawing constructing thoughts. The exercises intend to be eleven servings of "slow food" for architectural imagination as opposed to the tasteless "fast food" that dominates many drawing tables or digital tablets.An indispensable reference text and an effective textbook for students seeking to advance their appreciation of the nature and exercise of architectural drawings, the book aims to make the facture of architecture a much leaner and digestible process.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Preface | p. 1 |
| Architectural Iconoclasm | p. 13 |
| The Cosmopoiesis of Architectural Drawings | p. 21 |
| Food Colors | p. 23 |
| Festina Lente | p. 29 |
| Tools | p. 33 |
| Drawings as Loci for Thought | p. 35 |
| The Pregnancy of Drawings | p. 45 |
| Nullo die sine linea | p. 57 |
| Improper Drawing | p. 60 |
| Architectural Consciousness | p. 65 |
| Spolia | p. 73 |
| Scale Figures | p. 84 |
| Architectural Brouillons: work intended to be recopied | p. 87 |
| Cosmopoiesis and Elegant Drawings | p. 93 |
| The Mosaic | p. 107 |
| Traces and Architecture | p. 109 |
| Hybrids | p. 113 |
| Tools for Architectural Thinking | p. 117 |
| Disegnare Designare | p. 129 |
| Blind Drawing | p. 133 |
| The Light of Drawing Imagination | p. 141 |
| The Single Drawing | p. 148 |
| Cosmopoiesis and World-Making | p. 151 |
| Icons | p. 164 |
| Verso-Recto | p. 169 |
| Postface | p. 175 |
| Appendix: Scamozzi on tools and drawings | p. 183 |
| Notes and References | p. 191 |
| Index | p. 209 |
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