Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods

This comprehensive book offers a rich visual resource of design-drawing styles and techniques. It covers tool fundamentals, letter, orthographic and paraline drawing, representational sketching, linear perspective drawing, perspective view development, and light, shade, and shadow, delineating and rendering entourage, diagramming, conceptual sketching, 3D modeling, and presentation formats. Hundreds of visual examples place technical instruction in a professional practice context enabling readers to see and understand the persuasive powers of drawing. Examples are clearly presented and grouped in chapters according to drawing type.