Drawing for Urban Design

Portfolio Skills: Architecture

Drawing for Urban Design explores a wide range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to sophisticated computer models. Architects and urban planners need to describe cities in the course of their work, be it through maps, diagrams, sketches, computer renderings, or models. This book provides a practical introduction to these techniques for students while explaining the processes associated with describing and designing urban environments - it is an invaluable visual handbook for representing the contemporary city.

The book is divided into five major sections:
The city in context, The city as object, The city as data, The city imagined and Masterplanning projects

About the author:
Lorraine Farrelly is Deputy Head of the Portsmouth School of Architecture. Her studio teaching focuses on the idea of the city and how it is read and interpreted. In particular she seeks to promote the mixture of freehand and computer drawing skills to encourage a range of approaches to architectural drawing and representation. Her previous books include 'Representational Technique's and 'Fundamentals of Architecture' (both 2007).

Lorraine Farrelly
Drawing for Urban Design
"Portfolio Skills series"
Paperback. 280 x 216 mm
310 illustrations, 192 pages.
2011.
ISBN 978-1-85669-718-7
£22.50

For ordering please contact the Publisher
Laurence King Publishing - www.laurenceking.com