Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture
Focusing On The Creative and Inventive Significance of Drawing for Architecture

By Sir Peter Cook

Learn Drawing Iconography, Techniques and Methods

Bringing this together is a chapter-by-chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and methodologies.

Thus it will move from such conditions as Victorian romanticism; Modernist heroics, Minimalism, Diagrams, the representation (and inspiration) of movement, technology and motive power; through to notions and examples of digital automatism. In this way, the advent and challenge of computer-based drawing vis-à-vis ‘sketching’ or technique based drawing will be argued as a natural progression rather than a radical explosion.

In particular, there are many examples of hand-in-hand development of a project using several techniques.