Architect Drawings - A Selection of Sketches by World Famous Architects Through History
This book examines a history of architectural sketches, exploring their physical technique, comparing them to architects’ built ...
with other architects or the client. Whatever technical method an architect employs, they all touch, if ever so briefly, on a pe ...
to finalize the formation of a mental image as a method to visualize an undefined direction. Most architects draw to see and und ...
architect, and while they can be attractive, their beauty need not be questioned. As architec- tural representations their physi ...
to the corresponding architect’s built work; in other cases, the commission or project is unknown. Generally, examining the repe ...
necessary information. The museum of Egyptian archaeology in Barcelona possesses a ‘Representation of the god Imhotep’ from appr ...
precedent and had a relative amount of autonomy in construction ( 1977 ). Vitruvius advocated the implementation of graphia(plan ...
Although few sketches with architectural themes have been retained from this period, one may speculate that proportions or geome ...
The political and economic climate of Italy in the cinquecento formed a stable and intel- lectual society. The region of Tuscany ...
required precise instrumentation, as did surveying and engineering construction. The earth was no longer at the center of the un ...
viewed “invention” as its foremost aim’ ( 1979 , p. 47 ). The artists and architects who revealed these traits in their sketches ...
The Chinese and Japanese built sophisticated architecture that depended upon strict rules pertaining to tradition and religious ...
century neoclassicism. The sketches from these periods reflect both the ‘style’ of the build- ings and prevalent media for image ...
many examples as possible. Most sketches were chosen because they displayed a theory or reasoning inherently expressed in their ...
‘style’ or imitate a construction rendering, but sketches are unique conceptual thinking and thus difficult to reproduce. In thi ...
Coulin, C. ( 1962 ). Drawings by Architects. Reinhold. Coulton, J.J. ( 1977 ). Ancient Greek Architects at Work. Cornell Univers ...
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CHAPTER 1 RENAISSANCE ( 1500 – 1650 ) The Renaissance resulted in many innovations in architecture and parallel developments in ...
philosophy seeks intellectual formulas of balance between the “medieval faith in God and the self-confidence of Renaissance man” ...
Simultaneously, these architects relied on their reputation and/or publication to enhance the success of their careers. They wer ...
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