Ebook: Drawing : the Motive Force of Architecture
Author: Sir Peter Cook
- Tags: Architecture -- Designs and plans. Architecture -- History. Architecture Modern. ARCHITECTURE / Design Drafting Drawing & Presentation. Architecture.
- Series: Architectural Design Primer
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: Hoboken
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
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Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and catholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided with perceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of the greatest and most intriguing drawings by architects, ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright, �Read more...
Abstract: Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and catholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided with perceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of the greatest and most intriguing drawings by architects, ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright, Heath-Robinson, Le Corbusier, and Otto Wagner to Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Arata Isozaki, Eric Owen Moss, Bernard Tschumi, and Lebbeus Woods; as well as key works by C