TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piedmont-Palladino,Susan
TI  - Tools of the imagination: drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present 
SN  - 1568985991 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - NA 2708 T66 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Princeton Architectural Press
KW  - ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING
KW  - TECHNIQUE
KW  - DRAWING INSTRUMENTS
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-121); Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Circles and spheres -- The line -- The lead pencil: lever of the architect's imagination -- The geometry of art -- Light and shadow -- Perspective -- Design tools: a collector's perspective and an architect's odyssey -- Copying -- From model to drawing to building -- Erasing or deleting -- Imagination and building beyond tools -- Conclusion: improvisations, instruments, and algorithms -- Bibliography and additional sources -- Contributor biographies
ER  -