Annette Spiro

On the way to realization, any building or landscape must be documented with working drawings, the primary means of making the architect's design understandable to others, particularly the contractor. These drawings consist of plans, elevations, sections, details, and sometimes 3-dimensional representations, often with lots of notes explaining what is represented. All too often these drawings aren't as celebrated as the sketches that are a more immediate representation of a particular architect's ideas about a building or landscape. But this big book finds the art in 100 working drawings from the 13th century to present, giving architects something to pore over when drawing stair details and bathroom elevations gets them down – or when 3-d modeling software like Revit has them hankering for something more tangible.… (mehr)