Books Do Furnish A Room / Leslie Geddes-Brown
The A-Z of Modern Architecture: An unprecedented architecture encyclopedia
TASCHEN: 1072 pages - £ 175 - ISBN 978-3-8228-6313-8
Features:
• 566 architects from the 18th to the 21st century
• Architect portrait, quote, and short biography
• Description of important works, historical
context, and general approach
• Numerous drawings, photographs, and plans
Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans, and Drawings
Written by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Contribution by Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Norman Foster: Drawings 1958-2008
Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster. Text by Norman Foster, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Deyan Sudjic, Not Vital.
“From his student days to the present, star architect Norman Foster (born 1935) has used drawing as an analytical and pedagogical tool, as a conduit for dialogue between eye and mind. Foster’s earliest drawings for projects such as Creek Vean and Waterfront Housing are almost picturesque in their integration of building and landscape; in the 1970s, he uses drawing to devise and then explain such typological subversions as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank headquarters. In the 1980s, Foster’s sketches for Stanstead airport make plain his revolutionary effect on airport architecture, paving the way for a new generation of aerated terminals with luminous roofs; plans for the Carré d’Art in Nimes exemplify his reinvention of how we envision and construct heritage sites today. From buildings of the past two decades, highlights include a fantastic sequence of drawings for the Collserola Tower, glorious sketches of the Reichstag dome, the Millenium bridge, the library at Berlin’s Free University, the Expressionist penumbras of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City and the Sierra Leone school, where scarcity of resources necessitated and produced great conceptual elegance and clarity. In this magnificently produced, slipcased and linen-bound two-volume collection, spanning a half-century of works across over 200 drawings, each of Norman Foster’s projects is seen to command its own graphic style, and is narrated eloquently by the architect’s pen.”
The Hand Of The Architect
If you’re a fan of architecture and Moleskines, then most likely you’ll be interested in this limited edition book. It’s filled with drawings from 110 internationally renowned architects, so you’ll have a glimpse into the minds of some of the best and brightest.
Set includes the 272 page Moleskine Folio filled with architectural sketches and an A4 Cahier with 120 blank pages.
Architect and artist Luke Pearson builds up dark, layered sketches with Copic Wide Markers.
Book Review:
Hand-Drawn Worlds
- Author: Kristen Feireiss (Editor), Steven Holl (Author).
I found this book two years ago at the university library and it has since been on my wishlist. If you are intrested in hand-drawings and architecture then this mass collection of drawings will offer enough eye candy for quite sometime.
Note: It is a rare book to find/buy on the internet or in book stores, so if your’re intrested I recommend that you go to your local library.
Rating: 7/10
Description:
“Not all architectural renderings are done by straight edge or CAD program; not all spaces are visually related through blueprints. Impressive architectural spaces, spaces of atmospheric density, are also, and often to highly suggestive effect, created by hand. Hand-Drawn Worlds presents exemplary architectural drawings by 20 internationally-recognized contemporary architects and artists, among them Ken Adam, Alexander Brodskij, Lee Dunnette, Richard Ferrier, Zaha Hadid, Willem van den Hoed, Steven Holl, Syd Mead, Gottfried Mller, and Michael Sorkin. Flanked by related essays, fantastic rooms of great perfection and unmistakable character rise in more than 140 large-format illustrations. An essay on the history of architectural drawings completes the volume”
