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Ichnographia Quondam, Campo Marzio section 8, mirror copy plans.
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the state of drawing in education
2008.04.27 20:42
As to, "when CAD hit the scene the issue could only ever be framed between technical convenience and efficiency vs sentimental nostalgia," that really isn't the case, because the real frame was that those that did not have CAD ability feared their lack of CAD ability. And those with fear quickly try to transfer the fear toward those with CAD ability by suggesting that CAD itself is lacking.
I was extremely fortunate to learn CADD via Intergraph, a very sophisticated design/drafting 2d and 3d software, complete with 12 button cursor (NOT a mouse), extensive menu pad, 36"x48" digitizing surface, two 19" graphic screens, thus the 'inputting" was very fluid, if not also sensate, proportion, rythm, strength, continuous.
The reason I like CAD so much is because I like drawing architecture even more.
I like how The Portfolio and the Diagram begins with a quotation regarding Durand's Recueil et parallele des edifices de tout genre. That's one of my favorite architecture books. Bought the Princeton Architectural Press boxed reprint back in 1982/3, and a 1828 Italian 3 vol. with text edition 2002, and then I sold the 1980s reprint on eBay a few years ago. For some reason, the Italian edition has more that twice as many plates as the 1980s reprint. Durand should have the tome Size Matters.
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