How Drawings Work

Name: How Drawings Work
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138692978
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By Susan Piedmont-Palladino

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How Drawings Work explores the role of architectural drawings as essential tools for communication, enabling others to create buildings. Susan Piedmont-Palladino uses witty prose to examine various forms—including hand and computer drawings, physical and virtual models, and textual descriptions—drawing on diverse theories from grammar, linguistics, philosophy, art criticism, and popular culture to offer a fresh perspective on architectural communication.
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This book is well suited for architects, design students, and anyone intrigued by architectural communication and visual representation in the arts.

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.

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Praised for its insightful and accessible analysis, the book is both practical and inspirational for architects, students of design, and enthusiasts of the built environment. Reviewers highlight Piedmont-Palladino's erudite yet charmingly conversational style and appreciate the book's exploration of drawing types, purposes, history, and communication from cave art to digital modelling.

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ISBN: 9781138692978

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 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: 424g

Pages: 180

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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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