Understanding Architecture Through Drawing: 2nd edition

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This second edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many, the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but here the author argues that freehand drawing as a means of analysing and understanding buildings develops visual sensitivity and awareness of design.

By combining design theory with practical lessons in drawing, Understanding Architecture Through Drawing encourages the use of the sketchbook as a creative and critical tool. The book is highly illustrated and is an essential manual on freehand drawing techniques for students of architecture, landscape architecture, town and country planning and urban design.

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About the Author

Brian Edwards

Dr Brian Edwards is Associate Professor of Sustainable Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. He is an internationally recognised expert on sustainable architecture and a highly respected author of many books, six of which have been specifically on green issues. Brian has held numerous positions of responsibility within the field of architecture, including that of sustainability advisor to the Royal Institute of British Architects, 2000-2002.

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