A Guide For Those Who Learn And Those Who TeachThe book is a guide for students and teachers to understand the need for the role of and the methods and techniques of freehand analytical sketching in architecture The presentation focuses on drawing as an approach to and phase of architectural design The conceptual goal of this approach is to use drawing not as illustration or depiction but as exploration The first part of the book discusses underlying concepts of freehand sketching in design education and practice as a complement to digital technologies The main component is a series of chapters that constitute a typology of fundamental issues in architecture and urban design for instance issues of facade are illustrated with sketch diagrams that show how facades can be explored and sketched through a series of specific questions and step by step procedures This book is especially timely in an age in which the false conflict between traditional vs digital gives way to multiple design tools including sketching It fosters understanding of the essential human ability to investigate the designed and the natural world through freehand drawing The author Eric Jenkins received several teaching awards and design awards He is Associate Professor at Catholic University of America s School of Architecture and Planning where he teaches design theory and analytical sketching He earned a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University s Graduate School of Design and has previously published To Scale One Hundred Urban Plans Laying out sketching as a design tool Covers the key tasks in building design Easy to use systematic chapter structure