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Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, and more, 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms (Draw Like an Artist) is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers. This contemporary step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art and architectural concepts like proportion, perspective, and spatial relationships as you learn to draw a wide range of important residential, commercial, historic, and cultural buildings, bridges, towers, and other structures from all over the world and from ancient to modern-all shown from a variety of perspectives and scales. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author David Drazil's classic drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. Learn how to establish basic shapes; articulate lines for structure, forms, and shading; and add defining details by drawing these celebrated sites and many others: Residential: Fallingwater in the US and the Silo in Copenhagen Commercial: Dancing House in Prague and Sugamo Shinkin Bank in Toyko Monuments/Sacred: Stonehenge in the UK and the Cathedral of Brasilia Bridges: Jade Belt Bridge in Beijing and the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms (Draw Like an Artist) is a library essential for any artist or architect who's interested in learning how to draw and explore the underlying design principles of influential constructions. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.

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Author:   David Drazil
Publisher:   Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Imprint:   Quarry Books
Volume:   6
ISBN:  

9780760370766

ISBN 10:   0760370761
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   10 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book Tips on Architectural Sketching & Drawing RESIDENTIAL Barcelona Pavilion | Barcelona, Spain Farnsworth House | Plano, Illinois, USA Villa Tugendhat | Brno, Czech Republic Fallingwater | Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA Villa Savoye | Poissy, France Weissenhof Estate | Stuttgart, Germany Reflection of Mineral | Tokyo House in Abiko | Abiko City, Japan Victorian Painted Ladies | San Francisco, California, USA Markthal | Rotterdam, Netherlands Robie House | Chicago, Illinois, USA High Line at 520 West 28th Street | New York City Rietveld Schr der House | Utrecht, Netherlands Villa Mueller | Prague, Czech Republic Bay window detail | Copenhagen, Denmark Qiyunshan Tree House Hotel | China The Silo | Copenhagen, Denmark Valley Villa | Vilnius, Lithuania Tree House | Cape Town, South Africa Beirut Terraces | Beirut, Lebanon DYEJI | Luanda, Angola Rimrock | Spokane, Washington, USA Rural House | La Garrotxa, Spain Concrete Box House | Houston, Texas, USA Marble House | Bangkok, Thailand Five Terraces and a Garden | Quarteira, Portugal Sharifi-Ha House | Tehran, Iran COMMERCIAL (OFFICES / ADMINISTRATIVE) Dancing House | Prague, Czech Republic The Gherkin | London Chrysler Building | New York City Oculus, World Trade Center | New York City The Flatiron Building | New York City Central Radio & TV Tower | Beijing Salk Institute for Biological Studies |La Jolla, California, USA Sugamo Shinkin Bank | Kawaguchi, Japan Selfridges Building, Birmingham | Birmingham, England VitraHaus | Weil am Rhein, Germany Learning Hub | Singapore Antwerp Port House | Antwerp, Belgium Antinori Winery (staircase detail) | Bargino, Italy INSTITUTIONAL / EDUCATIONAL Bauhaus | Dessau, Germany Tietgenkollegiet | Copenhagen, Denmark Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, Virginia, USA Innovation Center, University of Chile | Santiago, Chile HISTORIC / SACRED / MONUMENTS Giza Pyramid Complex | Giza City, Egypt Hagia Sofia | Istanbul The Parthenon, Acropolis of Athens | Athens Taj Mahal | Agra, India Colosseum | Rome Sainte Marie de La Tourette | L’Arbresle, France Notre-Dame du Haut | Ronchamp, France Leaning Tower of Pisa | Pisa, Italy Cathedral of Brasilia | Brasilia, Brazil Sagrada Familia | Barcelona, Spain Stonehenge | Wiltshire, England The Great Buddha Hall of Tōdai-ji | Nara, Japan Prague Castle | Prague, Czech Republic Lotus Temple | Delhi, India CULTURAL (MUSEUMS / GALLERIES / LIBRARIES) Ribbon Chapel | Hiroshima, Japan Notre-Dame de Paris | Paris Centre Georges Pompidou | Paris Louvre Pyramid | Paris Vessel | New York City Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | New York City Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Bilbao, Spain Sydney Opera House | Sydney, Australia Experimenta Building | Heilbronn, Germany Heydar Aliyev Center | Baku, Azerbaijan Oslo Opera House | Oslo, Norway Hoki Museum | Midori-ku, Chiba, Japan Oscar Niemeyer Museum | Curitiba, Brazil Niter i Contemporary Art Museum | Rio de Janeiro The Twist Gallery | Jevnaker, Norway Neue Nationalgalerie | Berlin Elbphilharmonie | Hamburg, Germany Harbin Opera House | Harbin, China Enzo Ferrari Museum | Modena, Italy ArtScience Museum | Singapore BRIDGES Tower Bridge | London Golden Gate Bridge | San Francisco, California, USA Charles Bridge | Prague, Czech Republic Sheikh Zayed Bridge | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Brooklyn Bridge | New York City Millau Viaduct | Millau, France Pont du Gard | Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France Stari Most | Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rialto Bridge | Venice, Italy Ponte Vecchio | Florence, Italy Erasmus Bridge | Rotterdam, Netherlands Sydney Harbour Bridge | Sydney, Australia Jade Belt Bridge | Beijing TOWERS / HIGH-RISES / SKYSCRAPERS Burj Khalifa | Dubai, United Arab Emirates Eiffel Tower | Paris Big Ben | London Space Needle | Seattle, Washington, USA Nakagin Capsule Tower | Tokyo Axel Towers | Copenhagen, Denmark Hearst Tower | New York City SPORTS FACILITIES Beijing National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) | Beijing LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Stage of Forest | Jilin, China Acknowledgments About the Author  

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David Drazil is an architect who loves to sketch. Every day he shares his passion for the visual representation of architecture through drawings and tips on his website SketchLikeAnArchitect.com and on his popular Instagram account @david_drazil. Through creating educational resources on architectural sketching, David is focused on helping other architects, designers, and hobby sketchers to use sketching as a tool to improve their design process and presentation. A trained architect with international experience, David holds a BSc in Architecture and Building Engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague and an MSc in Architecture and Design from Aalborg University in Aalborg. He also collaborates as a featured artist with the iPad sketching apps Morpholio and ShadowDraw. He lives in Prague, Czech Republic.

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