Cook Drawing

The Motive Force of Architecture
2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-70061-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Architectural Design Primer

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawingfor architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents,Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight andcatholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided withperceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of thegreatest and most intriguing drawings by architects, ranging fromFrank Lloyd Wright, Heath-Robinson, Le Corbusier, and Otto Wagnerto Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Arata Isozaki, EricOwen Moss, Bernard Tschumi, and Lebbeus Woods; as well as key worksby Cook and other members of the original Archigram group.
For this new edition, Cook provides a substantial new chapterthat charts the speed at which the trajectory of drawing is moving.It reflects the increasing sophistication of available software andalso the ways in which 'hand drawing' and the 'digital' are beingeclipsed by new hybrids--injecting a new momentum to drawing.These 'crossovers' provide a whole new territory as attempts aremade to release drawing from the boundaries of a solitary moment, asingle-viewing position, or a single referential language.Featuring the likes of Toyo Ito, Perry Culper, Izaskun Chinchilla,Kenny Tsui, Ali Rahim, John Berglund, and Lorene Faure, it leads tofascinating insights into the effect that medium has upon intentionand definition of an idea or a place. Is a pencil drawing moreattuned to a certain architecture than an ink drawing, or is aparticular colour evocative of a certain atmosphere? In a worldwhere a Mayer drawing is creatively contributing somethingdifferent from a Rhino drawing, there is much to demand of futuretechniques.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 008
Chapter 1: Drawing and Motive 010
Chapter 2: Drawing and Strategy 029
Chapter 3: Drawing and Vision 055
Chapter 4: Drawing and Image 074
Chapter 5: Drawing and Composition 092
Chapter 6: Drawing with Expression and Atmosphere 111
Chapter 7: Drawing and Technics 135
Chapter 8: Drawing and Surface 154
Chapter 9: Beyond Drawing - Beyond Reality 177
Chapter 10: Digital-Manual Drawing and the Power of the Eye 203
Index 241
Picture Credits 247

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Cook is the founder of Archigram, the formerDirector of the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), London andprevious Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett School ofArchitecture at University College London. A pivotal figure withinthe global architectural world for over half a century, in 2007 hewas knighted by The Queen for his services to architecture. A RoyalAcademician, he is a Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts etLettres of the French Republic. He is currently a Senior Fellow ofthe Royal College of Art, London. Professorships include those atthe Royal Academy, University College London and the Hochschulefür Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt amMain, Germany. In 2010, he received an Honorary Doctorate ofTechnology from Lund University in Sweden. Cook is, with ColinFournier, the architect of the Kunsthaus Graz. He is a director ofCRAB Studio in London with Gavin Robotham, which is currentlybuilding the new Law Faculties and Central Administration Buildingsfor Vienna University and the Soheil Abedian School of Architecturefor Bond University in Australia.