The Motive Force of Architecture

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing
for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents,
Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and
catholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided with
perceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of the
greatest and most intriguing drawings by architects, ranging from
Frank Lloyd Wright, Heath-Robinson, Le Corbusier, and Otto Wagner
to Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Arata Isozaki, Eric
Owen Moss, Bernard Tschumi, and Lebbeus Woods; as well as key works
by Cook and other members of the original Archigram group.

For this new edition, Cook provides a substantial new chapter
that charts the speed at which the trajectory of drawing is moving.
It reflects the increasing sophistication of available software and
also the ways in which 'hand drawing' and the 'digital' are being
eclipsed by new hybrids?injecting a new momentum to drawing.
These 'crossovers' provide a whole new territory as attempts are
made to release drawing from the boundaries of a solitary moment, a
single-viewing position, or a single referential language.
Featuring the likes of Toyo Ito, Perry Culper, Izaskun Chinchilla,
Kenny Tsui, Ali Rahim, John Berglund, and Lorene Faure, it leads to
fascinating insights into the effect that medium has upon intention
and definition of an idea or a place. Is a pencil drawing more
attuned to a certain architecture than an ink drawing, or is a
particular colour evocative of a certain atmosphere? In a world
where a Mayer drawing is creatively contributing something
different from a Rhino drawing, there is much to demand of future
techniques.