Tools of the imagination: drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present/

Other Authors: Piedmont-Palladino, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, [c2006]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Circles and spheres
  • The line
  • The lead pencil: lever of the architect's imagination
  • The Geometry of Art
  • Light and shadow
  • Perspective
  • Design Tools: A collector's Perspective and an Architect's Odyssey
  • Copying
  • From model to drawing to building
  • Erasing or deleting
  • Imagination and building beyond tools
  • Conclusion: improvisations, instruments, and algorithms
  • Bibliography and Additional sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributor biographies.