Architect Drawings - A Selection of Sketches by World Famous Architects Through History

Figure 6.7 / Morgan, Julia

Student rendering of a theater in a palace, Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Environmental Design

Archives. 8. 75  13 in.; graphite, ink, watercolor and gouache on yellow tracing paper,

mounted on cream drawing paper; 1902. ©Julia Morgan Collection ( 1959 – 2 ) Environmental

Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.

Figure 6.8 / Reitveld, Gerrit Thomas

Rough draft variation of zigzag child’s chair Jesse. RSA, 485 A 012. 20. 5  15. 7 cm; crayon,

ink on paper; July 13 , 1950. ©Reitveld Schroder Archive (RSA) Centraal Museum,

Utrecht.

Figure 6.9 / Finsterlin, Hermann

Sketchbook page. Hamburger Kunsthalle/bpk, KH 11 a. 31. 9  25. 8 cm; pencil and color

pencil on transparent paper; c. 1920. ©Hamburger Kunsthalle/bpk, Berlin. Photo Christoph

Irrgang.

Figure 7.1 / Asplund, Erik Gunnar

Architect Competition proposal ‘Tallum’; ‘Study of the Chapel Basin’ sketch of the

‘Toward the Crypt’ series; The Swedish Museum of Architecture. 25  25 cm; thick paper;

1915. ©The Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm.

Figure 7.2 / Terragni, Giuseppe

Monumento ai Caduit, Erba, preliminary perspective sketches. Centro Studi Giuseppe

Terragni. Ink and graphite; 1928 – 1932. ©Per concessione del Centro Studi Giuseppe Terragni.

Figure 7.3 / Yasui, Takeo

Sketches of details for the special drawing room of the Nihonbashi Nomura building.

Graphite on grid paper. ©Yasui Archives.

Figure 7.4 / Wright, Frank Lloyd

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. The Frank Lloyd Wright

Foundation, FLLW 5611. 001. 37  30 in.; graphite pencil and color pencil on white tracing

paper; 1956. The drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright are Copyright © 2004 The Frank Lloyd

Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ.

Figure 7.5 / Griffin, Marion Mahony

Federal Capital competition, left panel, view from summit of Mount Ainslie (Part A).

National Archives of Australia, Series #41854 38, Accession #A 710 / 1. 63. 2  232. 7 cm

(A, B, and C); watercolor; 1911 – 1912. ©National Archives of Australia, A 710 , 48.

Figure 7.6 / Saarinen, Eero

David Ingalls Rink perspective study. Yale University Library Archives, # 5081. 8. 5  11 in.;

dark pencil on yellow notebook paper; c. 1953. © Yale University Library Archives, New

Haven, Connecticut.

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