Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

Chapter One: Introduction. Part One: Guiding principles. Chapter Two: Why draw? Chapter Three: Choosing the subject. Part Two: Techniques. Chapter Four: Perspective. Chapter Five: Line and shade. Chapter Six: Composition. Chapter Seven: The importance of practice. Chapter Eight: From sketch to plan making and documentary investigation. Chapter Nine: Sequential sketches. Part Three: Case studies in drawing. Chapter Ten: Towns, townscape and squares. Chapter Eleven: Streets, lanes and footpaths. Chapter Twelve: Landmarks, skyline and city image. Chapter Thirteen: Gateways, entrances and doorways. Chapter Fourteen: The facades of buildings. Chapter Fifteen: Machinery and the functional tradition. Chapter Sixteen: Landscape. Chapter Seventeen: Interiors. Chapter Eighteen: Colour. Chapter Nineteen: Using drawing to analyse an urban neighbourhood. Case study one: The merchant city. Case study two: the Bastide towns. Part Four: The way forward. Chapter Twenty: Exploration through the sketchbook - some suitable subjects. Chapter Twenty-one: From sketch to design. Further reading.