The Art of City Sketching

"Trusting the power of passion, Michael Abrams offers each of his readers an indispensible urban companion." J. Chaffers, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, University of Michigan "Michael Abrams provides a clear and creative methodology to guide students in sketching cityscapes, and the beautifully drawn examples provide extra inspiration." Stephanie Travis, Director and Associate Professor, The George Washington University "...an inspiring manual for students and professionals to capture and draw architecture in a fresh, yet systematic way..." Sophia Gruzdys, Senior Lecturer, University of Southern California "The book provides easy to follow guidelines and principles to make drawing a useful tool for research and analysis of buildings and places." Edwin R. Quiles-Rodriguez, Founder, Community Design Workshop, University of Puerto Rico "Michael Abrams encourages us to slow down, use our eyes, hands, as well as our mind to step outside of ourselves so we can better understand the many diverse strategies that have historically defined and constructed our surroundings." Stanley Ira Hallet, Former Dean, The Catholic University of America "This welcome field manual takes classes or individual students away from the computer, into the streets, pencil in hand. Summing Up: Recommended." -M. Nilsen, Indiana University South Bend, CHOICE Reviews, February 2015

Michael C. Abrams is Clinical Assosciate Professor at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Contents; Foreword; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Sketching Supplies; Part One - Beginner: Orthographic Projection; Lesson 1: Elevations; Lesson 2: Sections, Part Two - Intermediate: 3D Projection; Lesson 4: Axonometric; Lesson 5: Perspectives; Lesson 6: Tone; Part Three - Advanced: Perceptual projection; Lesson 7: Analytique Method; Lesson 8: Spatial Sequence; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.