From Leonardo da Vinci to Louis Kahn, the world's great designers and architects have used the observation and drawing of real objects to inform and inspire visionary constructions. This book prepares students of architecture and design to carry on a similar dialogue between their perceptions of the physical world and their understanding of the elements of design. It instills an understanding of the basic principles of drawing that are universal to all designdisciplines-mass, volume, form, contour, texture, shadow, and more-as it explores the knowledge, rational thought, and analysis that design professionals rely on to create successful drawings. This combination of technique, theory, and analysis equips the designer with a powerful set of tools, crucial to both the creative process and the successful career.
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From Leonardo da Vinci to Louis Kahn, the world's great designers and architects have used the observation and drawing of real objects to inform and inspire visionary constructions. This book prepares students of architecture and design to carry on a similar dialogue between their perceptions of the physical world and their understanding of the elements of design. It instills an understanding of the basic principles of drawing that are universal to all designdisciplines-mass, volume, form, contour, texture, shadow, and more-as it explores the knowledge, rational thought, and analysis that design professionals rely on to create successful drawings. This combination of technique, theory, and analysis equips the designer with a powerful set of tools, crucial to both the creative process and the successful career.
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DOUGLAS COOPER is Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he has been awarded the Henry Hornbostal award for teaching. He is also an internationally known artist whose panoramic murals can be found in locations across the United States.
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textural gradient, imposing perspective, disparity vision, freehand perspective, common vanishing points, cue conditioned, central vanishing point, secondary cues, slicing method, sectional cuts, size perspective, office method, isometric projection, magic method, picture plane, vertical information, slice line, orthographic projection, spatial axes, station point, depth cues, motion parallax, horizon line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bryce Canyon, The Natural Way, Kimon Nicholaides, Art Resource, New York, Bigallo Fresco, Bruce Lindsey, Jonathan Kline, Rebecca Schultz, Andrew Kikta, Andrew Tesoro, Battle of Issus, Houghton Mifflin, Maria del Fiore, Patricia Clark, The Perception of the Visual World, Thomas Spiegelhalter, Vincent Chew, Engaging the Visual World, Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Hans Hillmann, Howard Saalman, Kegan Paul, Matthew Cross New!
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- The Perception of the Visual World by James Jerome Gibson on 4 pages
- The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space by John White on 4 pages
- The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems by James J. Gibson on page 65, page 112, and Back Matter
- Perspective in Perspective by Lawrence Wright on page 97, page 121, and Back Matter
- Color and the Structural Sense by William Charles Libby on page 138, and Back Matter
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