Synopses & Reviews
The book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for, the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture. The presentation focuses on drawing as an approach to and a phase of architectural design. The conceptual goal of this approach is to use drawing not as illustration or depiction, but exploration. The first part of the book discusses underlying concepts of freehand sketching in design education and practice as a complement to digital technologies. The main component is a series of chapters that constitute a typology of fundamental issues in architecture and urban design; for instance, issues of "facade" are illustrated with sketch diagrams that show how façades can be explored and sketched through a series of specific questions and step-by-step procedures. This book is especially timely in an age in which the false conflict between "traditional vs. digital" gives way to multiple design tools, including sketching. It fosters understanding of the essential human ability to investigate the designed and natural world through freehand drawing.Among the 250 buildings and spaces drawn and analyzed are:
Church on the Water, Tadao Ando
Santa Maria della Salute, Baldassare Longhena
Frederick C. Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Altes Museum, Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Philips-Exeter library, Louis Kahn
Tate Modern, Herzog and de Meuron
Berlin Treptow Crematorium, Axel Schultes
Breakfast Room in Sir John Soane's Museum, John Soane
Tugendhat House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
IKEA diagrams
New England Holocaust Memorial, Stanley Saitowitz
Berlin Am Kupfergraben 10 Gallery, David Chipperfield
Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Palazzo Chiericati, Andrea Palladio
The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Jo Coenen and Co Architec
Casa en Bunyola, Francisco Cifuentes ts
Casa 6, Ochoalcubo, Marbello, Cecilla Puga
Traditional Turkish House
Parc de la Villette, Bernard Tschumi
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Beatrix Farrand
McCormick Tribune Campus Center, OMA
Spielbudenplatz, Hamburg
Place des Vosges, Paris
Deanery Garden, Edwin Lutyens
Olympic Sculpture Park, Weiss Manfredi
Galleria Umberto I, Emanuele Rocco, Oxford University, From Broad Street through
Bodleian Library courtyard to Radcliffe Camera
Synopsis
Ein Studien- und Arbeitsbuch f r das Zeichnen von Hand als Mittel des architektonischen Analyse- und Gestaltungsprozesses. Anhand einer systematisch gegliederten Auswahl von Zeichnungen des Autors werden die Methoden und Techniken in einer schrittweisen Darstellung detailliert vorgef hrt und erl utert.
Zeichnen dient nicht der Illustration, sondern der Exploration, der Erkundung und Analyse - dies ist die Grundannahme des Buches. Im einleitenden Teil werden Theorien und Praktiken der Anwendung von Freihand-zeichnungen an Universit ten und in B ros beschrieben - bewusst parallel zu den digitalen Darstellungstechniken. Den Gro teil des Buches nehmen jene Kapiteln ein, die zusammen eine Typologie der wichtigsten Teile und Bereiche des Hochbaus und des St dtebaus ergeben; beispielsweise werden f r die Aufgabe "Fassade" mit schematischen Skizzen die besonderen Fragestellungen herausgearbeitet und Schritt f r Schritt zeichnerisch entwickelt.
Das Buch reagiert auf eine sich abzeichnende Entwicklung, in der die unproduktive Konfrontation digitaler und analoger Techniken berwunden wird zugunsten der Nutzung einer breiten Auswahl von Entwurfswerkzeugen, zu denen auch das Freihandzeichnen geh rt. "Drawn to Design" will zugleich die Entfaltung grundlegender menschlicher F higkeiten bei der Gestaltung der gebauten Umwelt f rdern.
Synopsis
A guide for those who learn and those who teach
About the Author
The author, Eric J. Jenkins has received several teaching awards and design awards. He is Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America's School of Architecture and Planning where he teaches design, theory and analytical sketching. He earned a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and has previously published To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Part 1: Sketching-Thinking-Learning
Part 2: Sketching Actions
Mapping the Plan
Aligning Edges and Centers
Figural Voids
Clarifying Public/Private
Classifying Type I: The Donut
Classifying Type II: The Bar
Classifying Type III: The Infill
Composing Tectonic Order
Articulating Connections
Connecting Rooms
Coordinating Path and Room
Delineating Service/Served
Delineating Purpose
Engaging the Landscape
Fashioning Order/Disorder
Juxtaposing Forms
Organizing Tectonic Order
Tectonics movement
Overlapping Spatial Patterns
Patterning the Floor
Reconciling Structure and Enclosure
Hierarchy of Walls / Fuzzy Walls
Resolving Geometries
Sensing Material
Sensing Profane and Sacred
Shifting Geometries
Understanding Geometric Order
Unfolding Tectonics 1: Walls
Unfolding Tectonics 2: Columns
LightFacing the Building
Addressing Entry
Alternating Edges and Centers
Attaching to Context
Balancing Mass
Connecting Base-Middle-Top
Diagnosing Proportional Systems
Disposing Symmetry and Asymmetry
Establishing and Breaking Order
Harmonizing Forms
Moving through Planes
Negotiating Structure and Enclosure
Projecting Shadows
Seeing Windows
Subtracting Voids/ Adding Figures
Varying Rhythm
Topping the Building
Viewing Layers
Mass Primary/Secondary/Tertiary
Understanding Continuity
Aligning Seams
Traversing the Section
Articulating Path and Room
Ascending Stairs
Assembling Roofs
Carving Voids
Changing Material
Compressing and Expanding
Finding Primary, Secondary/Tertiary Space
Path Through a Building
Framing Views
Interfacing Public with Private
Moving from Public to Private
Orchestrating Sequence
Passing from Profane to Sacred
Reconciling Ideal and Real
Sensing Scale
Shaping The Floor
Porches
Tectonic Form
Complex Circulation
Layers
Light/Sun/ShadeUnderstanding the Situation
Activating the Fabric
Coordinating Object and Fabric
Embracing Change
Figural Voids in the City
Breaking Patterns for Civic Need
Highlighting Building Types
Highlighting Space in Fabric
Informing the Street Section
Layering Space
Lining with Trees
Moving laterally
Negotiating Sequence
Orchestrating Stairs and Ramps
Orienting Oneself
Screening
Movement through a City
Considering the Detail
Aligning Seams
Connecting Scales
Finding Rooms within Rooms
Expressing Connections
Gripping the Rail
Incorporating Furniture
Moving Panels
Balconies Types
Opening Doors
Resolving Geometries
Masonry
Shading Glass
Categorizing Joints
Joining Wood
Engaging with a Window
Changing Material
Part 3: Holistic Sketching
Bibliography
Index