Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination

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.