Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw; Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesnt urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. Rather; he makes a case for drawing as the interface between the idea and the work itself. A drawing; Belardi argues; holds within it the entire final design. It is the paradox of the acorn: a project emerges from a drawing -- even from a sketch; rough and inchoate -- just as an oak tree emerges from an acorn. Citing examples not just from architecture but also from literature; chemistry; music; archaeology; and art; Belardi shows how drawing is not a passive recording but a moment of invention pregnant with creative possibilities. Moving from the sketch to the survey; Belardi explores the meaning of measurement in a digital era. A survey of a site should go beyond width; height; and depth; it must include two more dimensions: history and culture. Belardi shows the sterility of techniques that value metric exactitude over cultural appropriateness; arguing for an "informed drawing" that takes into consideration more than meters or feet; stone or steel. Even in the age of electronic media; Belardi writes; drawing can maintain its role as a cornerstone of architecture.
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