Examples of world-renowned masters of architecture are used in this enlightening book that explores the "why" of architectural drawing, rather than the "how." By emphasizing the value of drawing over technique, the authors demonstrate how the drawing itself influences the designer's processes of thought, and exerts its own pull on the evolution of the concept.

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter–by–chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and...(展开全部)

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter–by–chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and...(展开全部)

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced. With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - the book explains ...(展开全部)

One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner’s landmark work was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner’s lifetime, it continued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulating as it was back in the mid-twentieth century. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) was one of th...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯•佩夫斯纳（1902—1983）是20世纪最著名的艺术和建筑史学家。1902年他生于德国，在莱比锡[Leipzig]接受教育，1924年获艺术和建筑史博士学位，先后与莱比锡、慕尼黑、柏林和法兰克福有过联系。他曾在德累斯顿美术馆任职5年，1929—1933年在哥廷根大学任讲师，同时专攻英国艺术史；1935年移居英国，曾任伦敦大学伯克贝克学院艺术史教授，1949—1955年任剑桥圣约翰学院斯莱德教授和董事。 自《企鹅艺术建筑史丛书》创刊以来，他就任编辑。他还任共卷四十六的《英国建筑》编辑，并按郡的顺序撰写了其中三十八卷。他是英国建筑师协会皇家金奖获得者，是莱斯特、约克、利兹以及牛津大学的荣誉博士获得者，还是圣约翰学院荣誉董事、《建筑评论》编辑部理事。 他的著作《矫饰主义和巴洛克风格的意大利绘画》[Italian Painting of Manne...(展开全部)

One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmarkwork was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner's lifetime, itcontinued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulatingas it was back in the mid-twentieth century.

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebv...(展开全部)

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.

Former Disney animator offers expert advice—with over 700 illustrations—on drawing animals both realistically and as caricatures. Use of line, brush technique, establishing mood, conveying action, much more. Construction drawings reveal development process in creating animal figures. Many chapters on drawing individual animal forms—dogs, cats, horses, deer, cows, foxes, kangaro...(展开全部)