Architectural Drawing Book. A Survey of Drawing from Prehistory to the Present

Comprises an overview of drawing and architecture

related imagery, as well as key texts in the field throughout history,

and touches on subjects such as developments in technology and

their impacting on both the methods and manifestations of drawing.

The book considers various forms of architectural representations and

projections such as plans, sections, per spectives and exploded

axonometrics. It also explores the impact of the computer on drawing

and current debates, taking place between practicioners of analogic

and electronically assisted methods of drawing.

The extensive breadth of figures touched upon include vitruvius,

Alberti, Da vinci, Serlio and Piranesi, through to Choisy, john Soane,

El Lissitzky, Wright, Le Corbusier, Eisenman, Constant, james

Gowan and Ted Cullinan, to name but a f ew. The Architectural

Drawing Book also takes into account sources of drawing that are

not directly a part of architectural discourse but that can be seen as

related or indebted to it, such as the fields of engineering, fashion

and art. In the latter context The Architectural Drawing Book looks

at the work of Mary Miss, Gordon Matta Clark, Dan Graham, Rachel

Whiteread and Paul Noble, amongst many others.