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The paper discusses the use of freehand diagrams in architectural design. It examines the roles of diagrams in various contexts: pedagogical books, design studies, designers’ introspective accounts and empirical studies of drawing in design. It offers several examples of thinking with diagrams in design and concludes with a discussion of the requirements for computational support for the diagrams in design thinking.
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Yi-Luen Do, E., Gross, M.D. (2001). Thinking with Diagrams in Architectural Design. In: Blackwell, A.F. (eds) Thinking with Diagrams. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3524-7_8
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