DRAWING - THE MOTIVE FORCE

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of
drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents,
Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and
catholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided with
perceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of the
greatest and most intriguing drawings by architects, ranging from Frank
Lloyd Wright, Heath-Robinson, Le Corbusier, and Otto Wagner to Frank
Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Arata Isozaki, Eric Owen Moss,
Bernard Tschumi, and Lebbeus Woods; as well as key works by Cook and
other members of the original Archigram group.

For this new
edition, Cook provides a substantial new chapter that charts the speed
at which the trajectory of drawing is moving. It reflects the increasing
sophistication of available software and also the ways in which 'hand
drawing' and the 'digital' are being eclipsed by new hybrids—injecting a
new momentum to drawing. These 'crossovers' provide a whole new
territory as attempts are made to release drawing from the boundaries of
a solitary moment, a single-viewing position, or a single referential
language. Featuring the likes of Toyo Ito, Perry Culper, Izaskun
Chinchilla, Kenny Tsui, Ali Rahim, John Berglund, and Lorene Faure, it
leads to fascinating insights into the effect that medium has upon
intention and definition of an idea or a place. Is a pencil drawing more
attuned to a certain architecture than an ink drawing, or is a
particular colour evocative of a certain atmosphere? In a world where a
Mayer drawing is creatively contributing something different from a
Rhino drawing, there is much to demand of future techniques.