"He draws like a dream… apparently effortlessly."<br><br>--Peter Cook on Archigram's Ron Herron. <br><br>The Architectural Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing from Prehistory<br><br>to the Present comprises an overview of drawing and architecture<br><br>related imagery, as well as key texts in the field throughout history,<br><br>and touches on subjects such as developments in technology and<br><br>their impacting on both the methods and manifestations of drawing.<br><br>The book considers various forms of architectural representations and<br><br>projections such as plans, sections, per spectives and exploded<br><br>axonometrics. It also explores the impact of the computer on drawing<br><br>and current debates, taking place between practicioners of analogic<br><br>and electronically assisted methods of drawing.<br><br>The extensive breadth of figures touched upon include vitruvius,<br><br>Alberti, Da vinci, Serlio and Piranesi, through to Choisy, john Soane,<br><br>El Lissitzky, Wright, Le Corbusier, Eisenman, Constant, james<br><br>Gowan and Ted Cullinan, to name but a f ew. The Architectural<br><br>Drawing Book also takes into account sources of drawing that are<br><br>not directly a part of architectural discourse but that can be seen as<br><br>related or indebted to it, such as the fields of engineering, fashion<br><br>and art. In the latter context The Architectural Drawing Book looks<br><br>at the work of Mary Miss, Gordon Matta Clark, Dan Graham, Rachel<br><br>Whiteread and Paul Noble, amongst many others.