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Architecture: Drawing and Representation

About Drawing and Representation

The Artful Plan: Architectural Drawing Reconfigured
Call Number: NA2700 .A78 2020
Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture
Call Number: NA2700 .C59 2014
Sketch, Plan, Build: World Class Architects Show How It's Done
Call Number: NA2700 .B25 2005
Sketch: Houses: How Architects Conceive Residential Architecture
Call Number: NA2700 .B245 2006
Transparent Drawing
Call Number: NA2708 .O34 2020

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
(visual-literacy.org)

How-To

Architectural drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods
Architectural Graphics by Francis D. K. Ching
Call Number: NA2700 .C46 2015
previous editions also available; a copy is also available on virtual course reserves (fall 2021)
Design Drawing by Francis D. K. Ching
Call Number: NA2708 .C49 2018
previous editions also available, a copy is also available on virtual course reserves (fall 2021)
Drawing and Perceiving: Real-World Drawing for Students of Architecture and Design by Douglas Cooper
Call Number: NA2708 .C66 2007
Drawing for Urban Design
Call Number: NA2708 .F367 2011
WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel
Call Number: NA2708 .W89 2020

Exemplary Drawings

Architects' Drawings: A Selection of Sketches by World Famous Architects Through History
Call Number: NA2700 .S625 2005
Architecture of the Twentieth Century in Drawings: Utopia and Reality
Call Number: NA2700 .M3513 1982
Drawing Architecture
Call Number: NA2700 .T56 2018
Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art
Call Number: NA2695 .U6 N486 2002
Masterpieces of Architectural Drawing
Call Number: NA2700 .M38 1983
Two Hundred Years of American Architectural Drawing
Call Number: NA2706 .U6 G42
Publication Date: 1977

Sketchbooks

Architects' Sketchbooks
Call Number: NA2705 .J66 2011
Drawing for Architecture by Léon Krier
Call Number: NA680 .K683 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright: Selected Drawings Portfolio
Call Number: NA737 .W9 A4 1977 Vols. 2-3 (DESK-4-RES)
Gehry Draws
Call Number: NA737 .G44 A4 2004
Le Corbusier Sketchbooks, 1914-1948
Call Number: NC248 .J4 A4 1981 Vols. 1-4 (DESK-4-RES)
Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks
Making Marks: Architects' Sketchbooks: The Creative Process
Call Number: NA2700 .M355X 2019
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
Call Number: NA2610 .K3 1973 (DESK-4-RES)
Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand
Tadao Ando: The Process of Creation
Call Number: NA1559 .A5 A4 2005 Vols. 1-11 (DESK-4-RES)