Jan Kaplicky Drawings - Margolius Ivan
Jan Kaplicky Drawings - Margolius Ivan Drawings are an architect’s essential tools of expression: a way of communicating, of formulating ideas, of connecting the hand, the mind and the eye to the…
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Jan Kaplicky Drawings - Margolius Ivan
Drawings are an architect’s essential tools of expression: a way of communicating, of formulating ideas, of connecting the hand, the mind and the eye to the sheet of paper. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing.
These drawings date from the early years of his independent practice, Future Systems, in the 1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the mid-1990s. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. Featured projects range from design studies for the International Space Station, undertaken with NASA, to the Media Centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, winner of the 1999 Stirling Prize.
Kaplický was one of the world’s last great architect-poet-draughtsmen, upholding a heritage that has its roots in the early Renaissance and has since all but vanished with the advent of computer-aided design. If this book has one central message for architects, it is that drawing as an art and a discipline must not be forgotten.
Jan Kaplický Drawings
Tatra - Ivan Margolius
Sketches - Jan Kaplický