Architects Draw: Freehand Fundamentals

by Sue Ferguson Gussow

Overview

Architects Draw offers a practical and invaluable way to help students and would-be sketchers translate what they see onto the page, not as an imitation of reality, but as a comprehensive union of voids and solids, light and shadows, lines and shapes. For nearly forty years revered Cooper Union professor and artist Sue Gussow has taught aspiring architects of varying abilities how to fully observe and perceive the spaces that make up our physical environment. Gussow skillfully applies architectural language to twenty-one drawing exercises that tackle a variety of forms--from peas in a pod to monkeys, skeletons, dinosaur bones, and the art of Giacometti and Mondrian. She shows, for example, how cut fruit and paper bags reveal that the physical world is made up of planes, dimensions, and enclosed space.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616891817
Publisher:	Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Series:	Architecture Briefs
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

Sue Ferguson Gussow is a figurative painter who works in a wide range of drawing and painting media. A graduate of The Cooper Union, Columbia University, and Tulane University, Gussow has served on the faculties of both the School of Art and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union and has taught and lectured at several universities and art institutions, among them Yale, Columbia, Bennington, New York University, Maryland Art Institute, Parsons School of Design and the Frick Collection. Now Professor Emerita of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, she has designed and taught Freehand Drawing for three decades and presently teaches the Advanced Drawing Seminar in the School of Architecture

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     9
Introduction: The Free Hand   Dore Ashton     10
Drawing from Life: The Fundamentals     12
Where it All Begins: Peas in a Pod     16
Critique and the Development of Judgment     19
Bell Peppers, Garlic, Broken Shells, Still Lifes     20
Drawing from the Figure     30
The Figure in a Chair     35
Handwriting: The Scribble Page     40
Monkeys, Skeletons, Dinosaur Bones     43
The Figure and the Skeleton     51
Lessons from the Masters: Homage and Reinvention     55
The Dumb Object     59
Paper Bags     62
Giacometti and Planar Drawing     66
Flowers, Plants, and Mondrian     70
Shoescapes     76
Feet and Legs     81
Clutter     86
The Figure in the Studio     92
Frame, Window, Room     100
Skulls, Heads, Portraits     112
Trees     120
Dirty Drawing Advanced Projects     130
Drawing in Practice Postgraduate Work     160
Notes     173
Glossary     174
Contributors     175