Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand
“Part of the generation of architects who were trained to draw both by hand and with digital tools, Nalina Moses recently returned to hand drawing. Finding it to be direct, pleasurable, and intuitive, she wondered whether other architects felt the same way. Single-Handedly is the result of this inquiry. An inspiring collection of 220 hand drawings by more than forty emerging architects and well-known practitioners from around the world, this book explores the reasons they draw by hand and gives testimony to the continued vitality of hand drawing in architecture. The powerful yet intimate drawings carry larger propositions about materials, space, and construction, and each one stands on its own as a work of art.”
“Single-Handedly features drawings from a roster of accomplished international architects, including:
A. H. Sutcliffe, Toronto ON, Canada
Alejandra Sánchez Vázquez, Madrid, Spain
Alessandro and Leonardo Matassoni, Arezzo, Italy
Alexander Fernández, Boston MA
Alexander Krylov, Moscow, Russia
Andreas Papastergiou, Zürich , Switzerland
Andrew Burdick, New York NY
Anneke Vervoort, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Apologue, Tucson AZ and Denver CO
Aric Lasher, Chicago IL
Ashwin Patel, London UK
Beniamino Servino, Caserta, Italy
Bishakh Som, Brooklyn NY
Brad Cloepfil, Portland OR
Brian MacKay-Lyons, Halifax NS, Canada
Bryan Cantley, Los Angeles, CA
Chris Dove, London UK
Claudio Schneider, Zürich, Switzerland
David Barrett McTyre, Beverly MA
Denis Andernach, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Dwayne Oyler, Los Angeles CA
Dayton Eugene Egger, Blacksburg VA
Eu Jin Lim, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Frank Escher, Los Angeles CA
Joyce Rosner, Austin TX
Katie Shima, Brooklyn NY
Lars Steffenson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lead Pencil Studio (Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo), Seattle WA
Liesbeth van der Pol, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Maitland Jones, New York NY
Marie-José Van Hee, Ghent, Belgium
Massimiliano Fuksas, Rome, Italy
Nataliya Eliseeva, Moscow, Russia
Pablo Castro, New York NY
Perry Kulper, Ann Arbor MI
Peter Wilson, Münster , Germany
Preston Scott Cohen, Cambridge MA
Richard Griswold, Boston MA
Rick Gooding, Los Angeles CA
Robert Mellin, St. John’s, NL, Canada
Sam Picardal, New York NY
Stefan Davidovici, Milano, Italy
Tom Ngo, Toronto ON, Canada”
”Nalina Moses is an architect and writer in New York City. Her writing on art, architecture and design has appeared both in print and online.”
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books (John Hill):
"The dozens of contributions to Single-Handedly are the antithesis of the imagistic buildings designed and envisioned through computers. They are weighty, saturated, often colorful, sometimes dreamlike drawings of real or imagined worlds....'[H]and drawing,' [Nalina Moses] writes, 'richly complements the work of the computer."