Overview

As design professionals, we are deeply rooted in the art of representation and expression. Our drawings are not just communication methods, they gain personal expression at our hands: Color, contrast, light, and shadow are manipulated to give a drawing life and dramatic poise. From the loose napkin sketch to the photorealistic rendering, we imbue our designs with a sense of purpose and intent. This intent is a driving force in architecture and critical to its progression. Without models and drawings that challenge the senses, that make us imagine the otherwise unimaginable, where would we be today? For a moment, consider the drawings of Piranesi, Boull e, Wright, Woods, and Hadid. Each is distinct, thoughtful, evocative at times utopian. Consider your own practice and your techniques your role in shaping the built environment.

Think about how your drawings are interpreted, received, and understood. How do they shape the evolution of a design? How have digital tools changed the way you present and evaluate a design? Keep these questions in the back of your mind as we move through this chapter. Consider how the techniques we look at can help you, and also think of how you might push some boundaries and extend your creativity using the tools available in Revit.

You ve seen with Revit that many traditional documentation drawing types are generated on the fly with little or no effort. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can generate entire building sections and elevations. A perspective view takes a few seconds to...