The Architectural Drawing Course: The hand drawing techniques every architect should know - Softcover

Zell, Mo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500293457 ISBN 13: 9780500293454

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

All students with a budding interest in architectural design will value this book for its solid foundational orientation and instruction. Mo Zell introduces readers to architecture s visual language, showing them how to think spatially and getting them started in architectural drawing with a series of instructional tutorials. Using three-dimensional design problems, she coaches students through the fundamentals of proportion and scale, space and volume, path and place and materials and textures. A series of study units cover virtually every aspect of architectural drawing.

This book concludes with practical advice for anyone considering a career in architectural design, offering ideas on building a portfolio, getting advanced training and continuing on a path to a professional career.

Table of Contents

Introduction Defining Drawing and Representation Learning to See Sketching  Fundamental Drawing Skills Orthographic Projection Objective Abstraction Axonometric Subjective Representation Perspective Spatial Strategies Rendering Advice

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Review

All students with a budding interest in architectural design will value this book...this is an excellent introduction to architectural drawing and is highly recommended --Building Engineer

About the Author

Mo Zell is the co-ordinator of the foundation studio, manual representation, at Northeastern University in Boston

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0500293457
• ISBN 13: 9780500293454
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160