Why Architects Still Draw

Contents

Thinking by Hand: A Lecture on Inventive Drawing

1 Praising the Pencil

2 Writing Is Just Drawing

3 Find First, Seek Later

4 Ideas Are in the Air

5 The Mind Rules over the Hand; Hand Rules over Mind

6 Sketches Are the dna of an Idea

7 “Draw, Antonio, Draw …”

No Day Without a Line: A Lecture on Informed Drawing

1 The “Augmented” Sensitivity of the Architectural Surveyor

2 The Eyes Are Blind to the Unexpected

3 X_width/exploration

4 Y_height/stratification

5 Z_depth/interpretation

6 Does a Forest Give Up Its Secret if You Measure the Height of the Trees?