Tools of the imagination drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present / [electronic resource] : Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino, editor. - New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2007. - xi, 124 p. : ill. (some col.).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-121).

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.


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Architectural drawing--Technique.
Drawing instruments.


Electronic books.

NA2708 / .T66 2007eb

720/.284