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How does anarchitect envisage a building? And how is that idea first explored?Architecture is one of the few remaining professions whose practitioners drawon papers and in which drawing is essential to the very creation of an idea orproject. The dots, squiggles and shadings are the architect’s personal calligraphicshorthand, and are as much about describing a new space as they are about a wayof seeing.Architect BillLay, whose own career spans the professional and academic worlds, has selected100 significant figures from across the globe for this first-ever survey ofdrawings by architects. Frank Gehry, Han Hollein, Tadao Ando, Emilio Ambusz,James Stirling and Aldo Rossi are among the well-known names whose works arepresented; and the buildings featured include cultural institutions, hospitals,airports, financial centers, parks, private residences, and pure feats of the architect’simagination: al shown at the first instant of conception, when the drawing ofan idea is freest from the constraints of client, time and budget.All the drawingsincluded are from the hand of the architect, and in them we see every kind ofmodern building from residential to commercial high-rise — and every sty

Who reads 100 Contemporary Architects : Drawings and Sketches?

Author

selected by Bill Lacy

Publisher

Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780500341193

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Arts