Drawing in Architecture Education and Research: Lucerne Talks

Description: What role does drawing play in architectural education? How is drawing used as an instrument for communication, investigation, and representation in architecture and the construction industry? This book brings together the contributions to the 2021 edition of the Lucerne Talks, the bi-annual Symposium on Pedagogy in Architecture at Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture. It offers closer looks at importance and of drawing culture in the curricula of Swiss schools of architecture and in the practice of architecture firms. Conceived as a compendium and reference book for students, teachers, and practitioners alike, the volume explores the potential of drawing as a universal tool for communication and understanding among different societies, language groups, and professional communities. It considers drawing in its dual function as an object and a method for theory and practice in architecture, and features strategies for a future transdisciplinary language of drawing that enables narrations and representations new spatial concepts. AUTHORS: Heike Biechteler is an architect and senior research associate at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art's School of Engineering & Architecture. Dieter Dietz is an architect and professor of architecture at EPFL in Lausenne, where he leads the ALICE Laboratory and also serves as the Section of Architecture's director. Johannes Käferstein is head of the Institute of Architecture at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art's School of Engineering & Architecture and a principal of Zurich-based firm Käferstein & Meister Architekten. Jonathan Sergison is a cofounder of London and Zurich-based Sergison Bates architects and a professor of architectural design at the Academy of Architecture (Università della Svizzera intaliana) in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The Institute of Architecture at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art's School of Engineering & Architecture focuses on forward-looking and practice-oriented education that is at the cutting edge of contemporary architecture in Switzerland. SELLING POINTS: . An inspiring compendium and reference book on the role and importance of drawing in architectural education and practice . Explores the dual function of drawing as object and method for teaching and practice in architecture . Features strategies for a transdisciplinary language of drawing to narrate and represent new spatial concepts 90 colour illustrations

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