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How Drawings Work

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How Drawings Work by Susan Piedmont-Palladino explores architectural drawings as crucial instruments of communication. Through witty prose, the book reveals how these drawingsβ€”ranging from hand sketches to computer modelsβ€”serve as information enabling the realisation of buildings. The author draws on an eclectic mix of disciplines, including grammar, philosophy, and popular culture, to offer a fresh perspective on how architectural communication functions.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in architecture, design, and visual communication, as well as students and professionals seeking a deeper understanding of how architectural drawings convey meaning.

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How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings.

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How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety of forms: drawings by hand and computer, models both physical and virtual, and words as needed.

The book reflects in witty prose on the nature of architectural drawings as tools of communication, pulling from a diverse and eclectic landscape of theories from grammar, functional linguistics, philosophy, art criticism, science fiction, popular culture, and, of course, architecture, to propose a new way to think about architectural communication.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138692961

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 January 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 55 Line drawings, color; 27 Halftones, color; 82 Illustrations, color

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 572g

Pages: 180

About the Author

Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino is a professor of Architecture, Coordinator of Urban Design, and the Director of Virginia Tech’s Washington / Alexandria Architecture Center in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. She is also a curator at the National Building Museum in Washington, District of Columbia, and a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA.

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