After Sue Ferguson Gussow's "Architects Draw" had been sold out from its original publisher for several years, despite high demand, a group of peers initiated a reissue. In collaboration with the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York, the Architectural Publisher B has published a revised edition of the book, including new drawings and essays.
Gussow's book is widely used as a source of inspiration and a textbook in schools around the world. It encourages architects to maintain their drawing practices throughout their lives and reminds them that drawing is the best tool to connect the hand, the eye, and the mind.
Architects Draw includes more than twenty exercises that explore the most unexpected subjects to train the architect's eye, hand, and mind – bell peppers and seashells as housing; paper bags to reveal architectural planes; shoes to define volume and void; frames and windows to consider problems of measurement and scale; and trees to explore gesture and the interpenetration ofform and space – and is illustrated with more than two hundred inspirational student drawings and examples from postgraduate architectural practices.
After Sue Ferguson Gussow's "Architects Draw" had been sold out from its original publisher for several years, despite high demand, a group of peers initiated a reissue. In collaboration with the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York, the Architectural Publisher B has published a revised edition of the book, including new drawings and essays.
Gussow's book is widely used as a source of inspiration and a textbook in schools around the world. It encourages architects to maintain their drawing practices throughout their lives and reminds them that drawing is the best tool to connect the hand, the eye, and the mind.
Architects Draw includes more than twenty exercises that explore the most unexpected subjects to train the architect's eye, hand, and mind – bell peppers and seashells as housing; paper bags to reveal architectural planes; shoes to define volume and void; frames and windows to consider problems of measurement and scale; and trees to explore gesture and the interpenetration ofform and space – and is illustrated with more than two hundred inspirational student drawings and examples from postgraduate architectural practices.