Hi,
If it isnt’t brought up in the refs others have suggested, it is worth looking up the work of Taccola and others in Siena in early rennaissance. They were precursors to Da Vinci, who appear to have copied some of their work. (To many scholars, Leonardo represented the culmination of a century-long transformation of the technical arts. He was not a lone wolf)
From an interview with Professor Paolo Galluzzi, director of Florence's Museum of the History of Science:
Two key figures are Mariano di Iacopo, known as Taccola (1382-1458?) and Francesco di Giorgio (1439-1502). Both influenced Leonardo, many of whose drawings are detailed copies of the designs of others - "like a series of photos recording contemporary technology," in Galluzzi's words.
Both Taccola and Francesco di Giorgio were Sienese, and Siena was for more than a century a thriving center of technological innovation. A great stimulus to the city's artistic engineering workshops were the particular local challenges facing the burgeoning city-state. For this hilltop city the problem of water supply was paramount. This was overcome by a sophisticated system of subterranean tunnels and tanks called bottini (still in use until recently).
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Lars Albinsson
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> 11 jan. 2018 kl. 17:33 skrev Alma Hoffmann <[log in to unmask]>:
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> I have a question I was wondering if any of you can help me.
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> I need help finding sources, articles, books, references, or anything to help me with understanding of how sketching came to be the ideation process before committing to a final design solution.
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> I realize we define sketching in different ways and we use sketchbooks for a range of things: from idea brainstorming or thinking, doodling, drawing studies, sketch notes, notes, idle thoughts, communicate or externalize thoughts, etc.. But how, in the history of design, did we start using sketches as the preliminary step to solve a problem? Or as an utilitarian tool of the design process?
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> From what I understand and from what I have studied in the past about the history of dance, the study of drawing and dance were part of the education of a child during and after the Renaissance (until we eliminated it from education in schools). And drawing was also considered a method of teaching observational skills— unless you were studying to be painter or were a painter or an artist, where drawing was much more than observational skills.
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> So, how do we go from drawing to observe and understand the world to sketching as a tool to generate ideas for a solution and as tool that other designers can use to finalize or replicate a project solution?
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> I have been thinking about this and I think it has to do with building boats and other machinery but I wanted to see if anybody here had some thoughts as to where to look for more information?
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> Thank you in advance!
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> Alma
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