Architectural Drawing: Options for Design

A new awareness of the importance of drawings has resulted from the avant-garde movements of the post-modern period and the extraordinary expansion of drawing means derived from the current revolution in computing and communications technologies. Drawing techniques have been resurrected, rediscovered, invented, and adapted to new purposes. This book presents designers with the broad set of choices available in design communications today. In a thoughtful text illustrated with a wide array of professional examples, Paul Laseau reexamines the role of drawing and its impact on design process, gives an overview of the drawing conventions, and discusses view selection and alternative methods of depicting subjects. He shows the influence of setting, medium, size, format, and style, reviews the ways in which abstraction can enhance drawing, and describes contemporary innovations such as glide and reverse perspective, split and panoramic projection, simultaneous views, and, of course, computer-aided drawing.