TY - BOOK AU - Piedmont-Palladino,Susan ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Tools of the imagination: drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present AV - NA2708 .T66 2007 U1 - 720/.284 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Princeton Architectural Press KW - Architectural drawing KW - Technique KW - Drawing instruments KW - Electronic books 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3387435 ER -