Drawing - The Motive Force Of Architecture 9780470034811

　　Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawingfor architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporaryfigures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course ofarchitectural thinking. Bringing this together is achapter–by–chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forwardmovement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques andmethodologies. Thus it will move from such conditions as Victorianromanticism; Modernist heroics, Minimalism, Diagrams, therepresentation (and inspiration) of movement, technology and motivepower; through to notions and examples of digital automatism. Inthis way, the advent and challenge of computer–based drawingvis–à–vis ‘sketching’ or technique based drawing will be argued asa natural progression rather than a radical explosion. Inparticular, there are many examples of hand–in–hand development ofa project using several techniques.　　Also includes drawings by Sverre Fehn, Mark Goulthorpe, ZahaHadid, Ron Herron, Tom Kovak, Enric Miralles, Marcus Novak , CedricPrice, Wolf Prix, and Lebbeus Woods.