Why Architects Still Draw
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- Paperback
136 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2014
Summary
An architect’s defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn’t urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. Rather, he …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262525480 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262525488 |
| Author: | Paolo Belardi, Zachary Nowak |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 10mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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About The Author
Paolo Belardi
Paolo Belardi, an architect and poet, is Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Perugia. He has won numerous international prizes, including TECU Architecture Award and the Premio Internazionale di Architettura Andrea Palladio.Zachary Nowak is a graduate student in the doctoral program for American Studies at Harvard University and Associate Director for the Food Studies Program at the Umbra Institute, in the central Italian city of Perugia.
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