How Architects Visualize Author:Tom Porter How does the architect translate his first ideas for a building into finished designs for client or builder? Do the conventions of architectural drawing help the creative process or lead only to a ‘drawing-board stylism’? What additional tools does the architect need to cope with the complexities of modern building? — Tom Porter here ... more »offers a controversial approach to the design process, analyzing the basic components of drawing, perspective and colour. The 24 projects in the text are intended as lessons in a fuller vision, to create a spatial imagination working in all three dimensions. The author also looks at the use of drawing systems and models over the last four hundred years, and brings the account right up to date with examples from television, computer and systems and their design approach. « less