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List of contents
1. Paper or Plastic? Drawing Conclusions 2. Thoughts on the Immediacy of Drawing 3. There’s No Way to Make a Drawing – There’s Only Drawing 4. From Concept to Object: The Artistic Practice of Drawing 5. Drawing and the Feel of Sight 6. More than Wiggling the Wrist (or the Mouse) 7. Architects, Drawings and Modes of Conception 8. Telling Untold Stories 9. Thinking on Paper 10. Observations: Life Drawings; Digital Translations 11. Paint and Pixels 12. Graphite and Pixels
About the author
Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, a frequent contributor to architecture, landscape, and design journals, and a practicing designer. He has held Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Japan Foundation fellowships, as well as an advanced design fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
Summary
Bringing together authors from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and art, this book addresses the question ‘Why draw?’ by examining the various dynamic relationships between media, process, thought and environment.
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"The fourteen amply illustrated essays comprising Drawing/Thinking confront a number of still haunting questions about manual drawing’s relationship to design and design studies in the age of digital reproduction. Treib...throws down a phenomenological gauntlet, charging readers to stop twittering long enough to take in the world by sketching as if our actually living in it mattered. This will have a time-honoured appeal to anyone who already values drawing, reading or other activities demanding actual sustained concentration..." Robert A. Svetz, Journal of Architectural Education
