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Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today

ISBN: 978-0-470-02671-7

April 2007

272 pages

Description

This is the first textbook for architectural drawing with the computer that is based on understanding how digital drawing fundamentally differs from drawing with lead pencils on drafting boards. Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today demonstrates a cinematically-inspired, cybernetically imaged, architectural drawing system for thinking about architecture as embedded in relationships within the world at large. It opens up the possibility of inventing new ways of building as framing flowing matter in order to live a philosophy of ?newness?. The authors, who have for fifteen years collaborated in teaching architectural students, link the architectural drawing text with research in the expanded field of architecture, which includes neurology, biology, ecology, physics, sustainability and philosophy. The book is written in an accessible and direct tone. Providing both an understanding of the visual perception behind drawing and practical exercises, it is set to become the key text book on the subject at both undergraduate and graduate level. It is highly illustrated with black and white diagrams and drawings.

About the Author

Brian McGrath is an architect and co-founder of urban-interface, which explores relationships between urban design, ecology and multi-media. McGrath teaches at Columbia and Parsons in New York City and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99 and is currently a co-investigator with the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and is a New School Faculty Fellow with the India China Institute.

Jean Gardner is Senior Faculty, Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting, Parsons. Her course 'Issues and Practices in Architecture and Urbanism' received special recognition in the 2005 National AIA Ecological Literacy Initiative. Co-chair of the ACSA Task Force on Sustainable Design, she helped organise 'Sustainable Pedagogies and Practices', the 2003 ACSA/AIA Teachers' Seminar. With The Rockwell Group, she exhibited 'the Hall of Risk', 2002 Venice Biennale.

Features
  • Brings the teaching of drawing up to date, presenting an entirely new system of digital projective drawing.
  • Set to become the key guidebook for architectural drawing with the computer based on understanding how digital drawing fundamentally differs from drawing with mechanical pencils on drafting boards.
  • Written in an accessible and direct tone, and highly illustrated with original black and white diagrams based on building and film examples that complement the text.
  • Opens with an overview of how moving from drafting board to computer has radically changed the making of architecture.
  • Presents different levels of text and drawing, providing a way forward for students who need to acquire basic skills as well as more in-depth discussions for graduates who work with representation, perception, space and media.