We Build Drawings

By (author) Mikkel Frost; By (author) Frost, Mikkel
Description
‘Architects do not actually build buildings,’ says Mikkel Frost, co-founder of Danish architecture firm CEBRA. ‘What we build is an idea. To visualize it, we build drawings.’ The evolutionary process of how aphorisms develop into precise architectural concepts is illustrated through a collection of Frost’s sketches and watercolours.

Over 200 drawings are organized into 20 sections, each relating to one of CEBRA’s projects. An index containing c olour photographs and renders of their works further illuminates how the drawings are translated into reality. Introducing the book, a written version of Frost’s TEDx talk Let your fingers do the talking elaborates on the book’s impetus: to bring a spotlight to the craft of drawing as a powerful tool for creation and communication.
Table of contents
4 Let your fingers do the talking!
12 Naturvidenskabernes Hus
20 The Iceberg
28 Købmagergade
36 Magneten
44 Væksthuset
52 Kloden
62 Paletten
70 Elbek & Vejrup
80 Blinds Studio
88 Experimentarium
96 StreetDome
104 UDK
112 HF & VUC Fyn
120 Rebildporten
128 Graadyb Halls
of Residense
138 Children?s Home
of the Future
148 Centre for Early Childhood Development
158 The Glades
168 Qasr Al Hosn
180 Æbeløgade
192 The Villa(ge)
202 Project Index
208 Credits
Biographical note
Mikkel Frost is a practicing architect and one of three founding partners of the internationally recognized architecture studio CEBRA, based in Denmark and the UAE. Frost is a skilled and versatile illustrator, with a talentfor spontaneously visualizing his thoughts and quirky ideas in fantastic and whimsical drawings. In 2016, two of his watercolours were accepted into the collection of The Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin.