Glenn Murcutt: Thinking Drawing / Working Drawing traces 13 projects through every stage of Murcutt's hand-drawn design process, from initial sketch to construction document, revealing how one of Australia's most celebrated architects thinks directly through the act of drawing.
About This Book
Glenn Murcutt works almost always alone and rarely makes models. His thinking happens on paper. This companion volume to the monograph Glenn Murcutt: The Architecture of Glenn Murcutt documents the same 13 projects not as finished works but as processes — tracing each from the first tentative sketch through to detailed plans, construction drawings, and resolved details. For anyone studying architectural drawing, design process, or the specific discipline of Australian architecture, this is a rare and direct window into how a Pritzker laureate develops a building. The sequential presentation makes Murcutt's spatial and structural reasoning visible in a way that finished photographs never could.
Key Features
- 248 pages of hand drawings, sketches, plans, sections, details, and construction documents across 13 projects
- Published by TOTO, 2015
What You'll Discover
- How Murcutt uses freehand drawing as an active design tool rather than a representational one
- The evolution of a single project from conceptual sketch to resolved construction drawing
- The relationship between detail design and broader architectural thinking across 13 distinct works
- A working methodology that is singular in contemporary practice — solitary, hand-drawn, and deeply considered
About the Author
[Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 248
- Dimensions: 260 x 200 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784887062948
- Publisher: TOTO
- Publication Date: 2015
Perfect For: Architecture students and practitioners interested in design process, architectural drawing, and the work of Glenn Murcutt; researchers in Australian architecture and hand-drawing methods.