The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections
The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections A club house in a castle in the West End of London, complete with battlements and turrets, from 1882. A fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier's…
Specifikacia The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections
The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections
A club house in a castle in the West End of London, complete with battlements and turrets, from 1882. A fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier's Capriccio of Notre-Dame du Haut in ruins. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the City of London in 1945.
This is a treasury of architectural drawing from the 16th century to the present day. A section of a 19th-century townhouse, showing a slice of the staircase wallpaper winding from deep navy on the ground floor to pale sky blue at the top. Exploring both how and why architects draw, it offers a rich visual history from Palladio, Inigo Jones and Augustus Pugin to contemporaries such as Richard Rogers, Foster Associates and Zaha Hadid, via Sir Christopher Wren, George Gilbert Scott and Erno Goldfinger, and everything else in between.
From back-of-envelope concept sketches to painstaking pen and ink perspectives, exploded