for the enviromentally conscience....

i love the plans and sections in the case study house book. they have a lot of life to them and really imply the lifestyle embodied in the architecture. very inspirational, but also a bit stylized.

also,



ltl

uch, those images look horrible re-sized.

check them out @ full-size. they look much better.

Not a good example, but check into James Stirling's drawings.

grimshaw + partners

piano

is a noteworthy section & plan based design approach in my opinion.

michael rotondi told me once "Plans are more like strategic drawings where you look for organizational strategies. Sections are more of like spatial strategies."

my fave book some time ago for drawings was a 200+ pages Renzo Piano monograph (I don't remember the title)... it was fantastic, the facades always had balloons in the sky and lots of people in and out of the buildings ... also the details (like those for the IBM itinerant pavilion) were great.

i always liked Hejduk's sketches and drawings - especially his 8h and 9h graphite drawings. morphosis drawings that incorporate sections and plans were also an inspiration.

ltl all the way

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I can't find a good pic, but you know what I mean. Totally uninformative but gorgeously presented

you mean this?.. Miralles' Torre del Gas:



it may be confusing at first sight but if you spend some time analyzing it, it's really quite comprehensive.. I mean, when I was a kid I did things like this; put the parts together and build a paper model

love the letters -those "S"'s!- though I have neved used that font (which was extensively used in catalan arch schools in the 1990s)

some more Miralles' drawings...

La Clota House (plans and sections all in one):


La Mina Civic Center:

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My favorites (predictable, but these guys got big be know how to make incredible drawings and models):

Miralles/Pinos
Hadid
Morphosis
Libeskind
Eisenman
FLW (look at his 'drawings' book, really great work, all drawings)

Predock has some decent drawings/collages too

For the other, buy the El Croquis. I'd probably lean towards the realy editions, if you can find them (waaaay before they were big and building actual buildings)

The drawings were best right before these guys got big and everything went digital. Check out Columbia's Abstract for the early '90s (it all went down hill once they got a hold of 3D software).

Thanks a lot. We get a lot of DS+R pushed on us due to the involvement of one of our instructors with the firm (actually, I heard that Renfro might be sitting in on first year finals). But their representation really is amazing.

Gordon Matta-Clark, artist, gets my heart going with his sections:

Can't find a picture, but Gunnar Asplund's Villa Snellman at Djursholm is pretty cool in plan. At a glance, nothing special, but then everything is tweaked very slightly into assymetries. You'll just have to take my word for it, though.

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as mentioned

LTL
Diller Scoficio
El Croquis is by far one of the best resources-look at the OMA issues as well as the Herzog and De Meuron issues. The advantage of el Croquis is that you can see how buildings were put together and it also gives you great examples of how to diagram well.

Morphosis

Asymptote has some great books showing their plans and sections

we were never taught to do dwgs properly in school either. i think it is a bauhaus thing.

there is an enormous difference between pres dwgs and construction dwgs. which are you looking for?


recently published by atelier bow-wow is a book called "graphic anatomy". bilingual and quite nice to see detailing close up. these are presentation dwgs for the book and not actual construction docs, but can be converted to construction docs perty easily if looking t learn about that sorta thing. i also learn-(ed, -ing) a lot from detail magazine.

for pres dwgs oma always seem to be on the ball with communication in most economic means. i think they have very good crew of graphic designers/architects on staff.

but there ain't no reason to follow any of the rules. in grad school one of my classmates did brush and ink dwgs on bedsheets at about 3:1 scale. hung them on 2 x 4'S in presentation space. was beautiful. dwgs as prayer wheel sort of vibe. super poetic.


apart from that best advice i have is to always start with the centre lines.

mvrdv (two family house)
heck yah
but it looks better on:
here

Another great section is the Wiel Arets house with the chickens...

i love those Spanish expressionist architects miralles & pinos esp, or anyone whose come out his office. Its a nice mix of construction drawings and presentation...especially loved how they dimensioned everything

I am sure the typical anerican family house is a very cosy and nice house. What I don't like ofcaurse, is the ever decaying quality of materials no ; the universam fittings was not a progress ,still maybe the recent chip-wood ply sheets will still show potentials above the regular Douglas low quality 21 mm. radial cut veners.
Still I would second those reconing this as what it is ; handy skills didn't get better ,with fast grow spruce , something that shuld rather make paper, not building structure. What I would fancy the most, would be a workthru of that concept with new eyes, make a Solid model, generate it into all it's full. size sections, and there, are any form --- Build those various local styles and make them four times as strong at a third the cost . No triangles from my point of view would be a startpoint for some but, I belive as with the new options constructing a building structure, also the plywood industrie will in the end profit --- had they invested, they would reach a crystal view ,investigating in the promising eco materials all sheet, anything sheet as you emagine , will deliver that honycomb core, to do exactly what these ply boxes already perform , just better. Splintret woods, over nailed steel fittings where did the craftsmanship go ? "we just use a bigger hammer" , did realy not develob , even with the now automated delivery , crap it is, then why not make it better, just switching into a more promising ware delivery ; before 4000 different things to make a house , -- now one. Family houses shuld be designed by the fancy new designers, new production and skills --- acturly calculating the new building assembly -- why have that to be overnailed sad timbers and weak super low plysack ?
I know a lot would love the oppotunity and it will come all by itself, it's there already.

Thru water thru fire only angels easy enter them both easy as with a childs mind beauty as it perform by skilled designers plans. Nice houses cosy houses family houses, how I love them .

scarpa

difficult to find drawings on the net, but SANAA's plans and sections of their École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne are beautiful in their simplicity.

if you really want to see them, the can be found in Icon magazine, february 2007; and also in GA document, May 2005, n.85. perhaps your school has a journal collection?

Does anyone know the font miralles uses ?

oh i had it somwehere...maybe at the laptop at home... i will check if i find it ill send it

A.R. Burelli has done some amazing drawings

MAD, si lo encuentras, ponte la de puebla! =D

Cris, si, but is a little bit over used no crees?? en fin, is a nice font thats fo' sure

I gotta say something about Raimund Abraham. good colored pencil stuff

Ramon Pedernales, especially his latest.

what miralles books have a collection of his drawings? i've been meaning to get some - but not sure which books to get.

i'll second abraham - am also a sucker for zumthor and aires mateus
Once stumbled upon a small exhibit of Botta's where i mistook his cymbalista synagogue plan drawing in charcol or pencil for an abstract composition - it was stunning , both the tecnique and the information conveyed.

Get the Miralles/Pinos El Croquis - I've got their first one, but the second is probably more thorough (don't have it, so don't know)

Great stuff

I have this superb huge compilation of the three El Croquis monographs which seems to be the definitive collection of Enric's drawings/interviews/sketches/etc...
I got it three years ago and I haven't finished reading it yet, it's almost like the Phaidon monster-atlas, 700 pg.:

http://www.elcroquis.es/MagazineDetail.aspx?magazinesId=140&lang=es

I always liked Rudolph Schindlers renderings:

architectural review redraws plans as well