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

Figure 7.16 / Smithson, Alison

Sketch plans for two Snowball Appliance Houses. CCA, DR 1995 : 0052. 12  11. 5 cm; pen

and black ink on tracing paper; 1957. Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal ©Alison and Peter Smithson.

Figure 7.17 / Candela, Felix

Paragnas en San Jerominio. Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, DR 69 – 12.

Approximately 12  16 in.; marker sketch with shadows; 1960. ©Avery Architectural and

Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.

Figure 7.18 / Rossi, Aldo

Perspective sketches, sketch plans, and detail sketches for the Centro Direzionale, Florence.

CCA, DR 1987 ; 0152. 29. 7  21 cm; blue ballpoint pen and black felt tip marker on glossy

white paper; 1977. © Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for

Architecture, Montréal.

Figure 8.1 / Agrest, Diana

Sport City, Design process: plan study, overall view. Sport City, Shanghai, China. Aerial

view: 13  9. 5 in., Plan: 13  10. 5 in.; black ink on trace paper; October 18 , 2003. ©Agrest

and Gondelsonas.

Figure 8.2 / Ando, Tadao

Preliminary design sketch, light slit on the altar. Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan.

11. 7  8. 5 in.; felt pen on Japanese paper (washi); 1987. ©Tadao Ando.

Figure 8.3 / Botta, Mario

Sketch studies for the ground floor plan and verifications of the building’s volume and

shape. The Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1998.

31  50 cm; pencil on white sketching paper; 1996. ©Mario Botta.

Figure 8.4 / Calatrava, Santiago

Sketch plan ( 05 ). Tenerife Concert Hall, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

30  40 cm; watercolour; 1999. ©Santiago Calatrava.

Figure 8.5 / Chen, Shi Min

Section sketch. Nan Hai Hotel, SheKou, ShenZhen, China. 8. 3  11. 7 in.; pencil on trac-

ing paper; October 24 , 1982. ©Chen Shi Min.

Figure 8.6 / COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Prix, Wolf D. ( 1942 ) and Swiczinsky, Helmut ( 1944 ). Untitled sketch. BMW Welt,

Munich, Germany. 29. 7  21 cm.; black felt pen; 2001. ©COOP HIMMELB(L)AU.

Figure 8.7 / Correa, Charles

Housing sketch. 1999. ©Charles Correa.

Figure 8.8 / Diller, Elizabeth

Blur process sketch. Blur Building, Swiss Expo 2002. 7. 5  7. 5 in.; ink on napkin;

December 28 , 1998. ©Elizabeth Diller.

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