101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0262062666 ISBN13: 9780262062664 Release Date: August 2007 Publisher: MIT Press Length: 212 Pages Weight: 0.90 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.2" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation--from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory--provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the