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Tools of the imagination : drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present / Susan Piedmont-Palladino, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, 2006Description: xi, 124 p. : ill. col. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781568985992 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.284 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2708 .T66 2006
Contents:
Circles and spheres -- The line -- The lead pencil : lever of the architect's imagination / Paul Emmons -- The geometry of art -- Light and shadow -- Perspective -- Design tools : a collector's perspective and an architect's odyssey / David V. Thompson -- Copying -- From model of drawing to building -- Erasing or deleting -- Imagination and building beyond tools / Phillip G. Bernstein -- Conclusion : improvisations, instruments, and algorithms / William J. Mitchell.
Review: "Tools of the Imagination: Drawing Tools and Technologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present takes the reader on a 250-year journey through the history of invention and innovation in architectural design implements end technologies. This collection is accompanied by drawings and models that record the evolution in the expression of architectural ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Circles and spheres -- The line -- The lead pencil : lever of the architect's imagination / Paul Emmons -- The geometry of art -- Light and shadow -- Perspective -- Design tools : a collector's perspective and an architect's odyssey / David V. Thompson -- Copying -- From model of drawing to building -- Erasing or deleting -- Imagination and building beyond tools / Phillip G. Bernstein -- Conclusion : improvisations, instruments, and algorithms / William J. Mitchell.

"Tools of the Imagination: Drawing Tools and Technologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present takes the reader on a 250-year journey through the history of invention and innovation in architectural design implements end technologies. This collection is accompanied by drawings and models that record the evolution in the expression of architectural ideas."--BOOK JACKET.

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