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A selection of sketches by world famous architects through history
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By
Kendra Schank Smith, PhD in History, Theory, Criticism, and Representation, Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah, USA
Description
The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly
successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own
work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide
this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can
be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture
in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of
designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar
Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name
but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect?s life, a look at the sketch
in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation
of the architect?s thinking and intentions.
As creative designers themselves, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly
successful ones, think and draw and approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an
insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight.
Listed chronologically each sketch will be accompanied by a text which provides: A short synopsis/history of the architect's life; a
look at the sketch in this context; the connection to a specific building (where appropriate); techniques of the sketch: style and media;
meaning - what the sketch shows about the architect's thinking and intentions followed by a select bibliography for each section.
Audience
Professional and student architects, designers, structural engineers, architecture historians, art historians, design historians
Contents
Introduction, 1 Renaissance (1500-1650), 2 Baroque, French Classicism and Rococo (1650-1750), 3 Neo-Classical, Neo-Gothic, Beaux-Arts
(1750-1870), 4 American Neo-Classicism and the Emergence of the Skyscraper (1870-1920), 5 The Turn of the Century Europe and its Influences,
Prelude to Modernism (1870-1910), 6 Early Modern (1910-1940), 7 Modern and Post-Modern (1940-1980), 8 Contemporary (1980-)
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Hardbound, 224 pages, publication date: AUG-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5719-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5719-7
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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