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Architect's Notebook The Treasure House of Idea
“What is a notebook to you?” This question is posed to each of the 24 international architectural offices featured in this fascinating compendium of sketches, drawings, digital renderings and ideas on paper. Many architects see their notebooks as one of the most important tools of the trade. Filling up blank pages with quick notes and freehand drawings enables practitioners to remember important insights into a project, develop designs and later translate those concepts into reality. Besides reproducing a treasure trove of pages from numerous notebooks, the varying perspectives on this enduring object’s function and status in contemporary practice is explored in detail.
- GenresArchitecture
412 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2014
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March 9, 2025
A nice book with lots of sketches from lots of architects and lots of styles.
"I am not really fond of that romanticized idea of the notebook, that it is the place where the architect creates his projects, how his ideas are conceived etc. It is the same concept of the paper napkin and the sketches you make on them. I don't believe that projects come out of sketches made in 1 minute on your notebook or any other piece of paper that you have available. My projects are conceived and developed through drawings, models, 3d models, scripts and simulations that most of the time happen on the computer and are the result of intense work, and a process that is developed over many iterations. The sketchbook is a tool that complements all the above. It is useful in order to record ideas in relation to the projects and processes that you are working on, but it is never the main instrument for them. It might be that their use is more psychological than really functional.
- object-e architecture"
"I am not really fond of that romanticized idea of the notebook, that it is the place where the architect creates his projects, how his ideas are conceived etc. It is the same concept of the paper napkin and the sketches you make on them. I don't believe that projects come out of sketches made in 1 minute on your notebook or any other piece of paper that you have available. My projects are conceived and developed through drawings, models, 3d models, scripts and simulations that most of the time happen on the computer and are the result of intense work, and a process that is developed over many iterations. The sketchbook is a tool that complements all the above. It is useful in order to record ideas in relation to the projects and processes that you are working on, but it is never the main instrument for them. It might be that their use is more psychological than really functional.
- object-e architecture"
March 1, 2017
Pretty repetitive. Most of the best quotes are in the first 10 pages. Visually though it's pretty good. I got this to inspire myself to write in notebooks more,
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