title: Why Architects Still Draw (The MIT Press)
author:  Paolo Belardi 
description: <DIV>Paolo Belardi, an architect and poet, is Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Perugia. He has won numerous international prizes, including TECU Architecture Award and the Premio Internazionale di Architettura Andrea Palladio.</DIV>
zlib_text: Why Architects Still Draw
  
  Why Architects Still Draw
  Two Lectures  
  on Architectural  
  Drawing
  Paolo Belardi
  translated by Zachary Nowak
  THE MIT PRESS
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  LONDON, ENGLAND
  
  © 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  These essays were originally published in Italian by Casa Editrice Librìa (Melfi),  
  as two separate volumes: Brouillons d’Architects: una lezione sul disegno  
  inventivo (2004) and Nulla dies sine linea: una lezione sul disegno  
  conoscitivo (2012).
   
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