Architectural Sketching (Series of Architectural Art Textbooks for Higher Education)

Author: Cheng Yuan (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Line drawing is a means and language of shaping, and it is crucial and essential to master it in all fields of shaping design. It enables better realization of your imagination and creativity. Due to its concise language and clear expression, line drawing has strong practicality for architecture. This book introduces the origins of Chinese line drawing, covering traditional line drawing and contemporary line drawing; the tools, basics, copying, and sketching of line drawing; still-life line drawing, architectural line drawing, plant line drawing, and figure line drawing; the combination of line and surface techniques, imagination and creativity in line drawing; line drawing techniques, the form and design of line drawings, and more. "A stone from another mountain can polish jade"; "The essence lies beyond effort." This book aims to create a platform for students studying architectural design. Through learning "architectural line drawing," it enhances their ability to express and create in conceptualization, sketches, and perspective drawings. This book is suitable for students of architecture, urban planning, interior design, environmental art, and other related majors, as well as for to read.