WWW.Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel [Paperback]

What is the role of hand drawing play for architecture in a digital age, as drawing moves off the page and onto the screen? How might computer-generated drawings emulate the ambiguities and nuances of the hand?

WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel documents the eponymous project conducted by Pennsylvania State Universitys Department of Architecture, which explored these questions through a giant-scale hand-drawing workshop and a symposium held at the Drawing Center, New York.

WWW refers in this context both to the World Wide Web, and to the Three Wsarchitects Michael Webb, Mark West and James Wines, each renowned for their skills in hand drawing, who discuss their individual approaches and techniques.

Complementing the Ws perspectives, artists and architects of a younger generation  Daniel Cardoso Llach, Andrew Heumann, J?rg Lehni, Jane Nisselson, Seher Shah and Ann Tarantinoaddress various aspects of contemporary architectural drawing, both analog and digital: the legacies of contrasting ideologies of early computer-aided design; technology as expressive vocabulary; and drawing as live performance, whether executed by hand or by robotic drawing machine.

Together, the research and creative explorations presented in WWW Drawing cast architectural drawing in a fresh light.

Published by Actar Publishers, Pennsylvania State University and Stuckeman School of ArchitectureES At the end of WWW Drawing, in the transcript to a symposium held at The Drawing Center in New York City in May 2013, architect James Wines says, I've been through about six generations of gee-whiz-tech and, until the hair on the back of my neck stands up, there's no idea. While this may sound like the architect known for BEST Showrooms, the Highrise of Homes, and other SITE projects is promoting hand-drawing over gee-whiz-tech, he goes on to explain that both drawing by hand on drawing on computers are very useful. You've got to ls