Tools of the imagination , c2007
- Title(s):
Tools of the imagination : drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present / Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino, editor.
- Published/Created:
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2007.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 124 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNA2708 .T66 2007 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- Related Content:
- Table of contents only
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-121).
- Subject Terms:
- Architectural drawing -- Technique.Drawing instruments.
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- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Circles and spheres
- The line
- The lead pencil: lever of the architect's imagination
- The geometry of art
- Light and shadow
- Perspective
- Design tools: a collector's perspective and an architect's odyssey
- Copying
- From model to drawing to building
- Erasing or deleting
- Imagination and building beyond tools
- Conclusion: improvisations, instruments, and algorithms
- Bibliography and additional sources
- Contributor biographies.