Look up Ching for sure.

Ah yes, Ching will be covered in the semester before. Sorry I should have mentioned that.

ms uddin's hybrid drawing is worth a look and I also enjoyed 4x4 Photoshop and 3D: Geometry/Chaos

Iain Fraser's "Envisioning Architecture: An Analysis of Drawing"

"Perspective" by Robert W. Gill

Thanks for the suggestions, I will take a look at those. Much appreciated.

If you are using these books for a class you can ask the publisher to send you a sample. The first one you describe is Wiley's. They are very generous with their samples. The site is here.

If you come up with other titles please post them. It's helpful to many of us that teach introductory classes.

I taught myself perspective using the Gill book and recommend it to students all the time. Other than that, I never really use any ching-type books - just handouts and demonstrations and examples of artists and architects.

I met and drew with Franc Ching a couple years ago. He was a nice guy and all about constructiing your drawings--finding the basic shapes and forms and 'drawing through' axis and organiaztional/perspective lines.

I liked his approach, but I like some of the methods outlined in Mike Lin's book better, though I don't like the 'style' so much depcted in his Drawing with confidesnce book.

There's a couple I cant remember, but I also like Jim Legget's book.

Thanks Sarah for the suggestion. I did go to their website and a couple of others to inquire about a few text books that seemed reasonable for my course. Cacaphonous, I will take a serious consideration with the Gill, I think we have it in the library here. Thanks Larchinect, I will also check out both of those. Much appreciated all, keep them coming and I will let you know what I think when I get to take a look at all of them

not about teaching, but a great way to see a breadth of architects use the medium digital/hand/composite...

Sketch-Plan-Build: Bahamon

i prefer Yee over ching because ching is so singular in style whereas Yee shows many different ways to compose a drawing and actual architect's examples.

I'm an undergrad and I've discovered some interesting books through the years of architecture school...researching and e.t.c. (these focus on hand drawing more)

- "Drawing and Designing With Confidence" - by Michael Lin (classic, goes through detailed techniques...it's hand drawing and rendering)

- "Basics Architecture: Representational Techniques" by Lorraine Farelly - it goes through the various theoretical and practical techniques to architecture representation in both sketch, modeling, and drawings. It has some references and tips, and looks at the works of various architects like Alsop and Holl who use sketches, modelling, digital modelling, and other mediums in their design process.

- "Digital Drawing for Designers" by Douglas Siedler - great reference for using CAD

Also, Palasmaa is a good read on the value of sketches and hand drawing through the design process (which is unfortunately a dying art)

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