This book demonstrates that more versatile and facile sketching leads to more flexible, creative approaches to design challenges. To encourage this flexibility and stimulate graphic thinking, this book introduces numerous techniques that can be applied in a variety of situations.

This book also helps the reader acquire a solid grasp of:

• basic freehand drawing
• representational drawing construction
• graphic note-taking
• diagramming

Important features of this third edition also include:

• Easy-to-understand discussions supported by freehand illustrations
• A new format with superior representation of techniques and concepts
• Dozens of new and updated illustrations
• Extensive coverage of new technologies related to the graphic thinking process

Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers is a valuable tool in the pursuit of architectural solutions to contemporary design problems.

Contents:

1. Basic Skills
   Drawing
   Conventions
   Abstraction
   Expression

2. Applied Skills
   Analysis
   Exploration
   Discovery
   Verification

3. Communication
   Process
   Individual Design
   Team Design
   Public Design

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