Visual Notes for Architects and Designers is an innovative reference that can help you become more creative and constructive on-the-job site, no matter what your level of artistic ability is. Enabling the reader to record and observe their ideas through pictures instead of words, this text utilizes a show by example approach that clearly illustrates proven methods and procedures for keeping a highly useful visual notebook, and demonstrates how to make notational sketches that serve as visual records for your future reference.
With a focus on teaching you how to expand your knowledge of a subject matter beyond observation or verbal representation, this book will help you gain access to simple techniques for analyzing, collecting and applying information in the industry, by bridging the gap between visualization, note taking and creativity.
The authors of this text also discuss several types of notebooks that are suitable for taking visual notes, and outlines strategies that will prove valuable for landscape architects, architects, designers or anyone else interested in recording experience through sketch form. 224 pages.
Visual Notes for Architects and Designers - Table of Contents:
- A Guide to Note-Taking
- A Journal
- A Collection of Visual Notes
- Tools and Techniques
- Conclusion
- Epilogue, Thomas H. Beeby
- Footnotes
- Photo Credits
- Bibliography
- Index
Visual Notes for Architects and Designers
