Whose initials are on the Mendelsohn sketch ?

E M -- out first blobbist ?

Rembrandt

Kinda reminds me of that look you see when a recent graduate starts work on the first day.

i promise - this is not self aggrandizement - i'm just the biggest supporter of hand drawing - i specialized in it at school, and i'm dying to teach so that i could help re-institutionalize the use of the hand drawing to express as well as generate design ideologies in studios. this has a glimpse of some (ahhem) hand drawings.. i'd literally spend days in studio on an 80 square inch section of my drawings. thanks for this thread - and keep posting!

nice, kyll. [sounds like something i might have said, too.]

is that a section of someone on a toilet?

(ahhem)

yes. yes it is...

Eliel Saarinen - runner-up - Tribune Tower Competition

...and now, for something completely different ...

Palace of the Soviets

I hate to ruin such a great list of drawings...



I would like to hear Gehry say: Okay, folks, pay attention to the joinery!

hahahaha

Wow. I wonder if there's a plausible scenario for what we see here. . .does he have a "script" for this story ?

Garrett Eckbo - landscape architect (founder of EDAW)

i hate when i scan images and i get that shadow on the side. it happens with books and separated drawings.

I'm certainly sorry to hear that. . .

An alternative is to use your camera; I retrieve most of my book-bound images that way. It can take some ingenuity to get a flat and evenly-lit image, though.

Richard Meier - Jubilee Church (Rome) - early sketches

annoying shadow on left adds "character". . .

right...

Maurice D. Cox Architects, Architecture for Humanity

quizzical, i respect you, but that could easily be sketch up pro

Look closer. . .

oh no shit. it is. look at the shadows. looks like with maybe some detail added in photoshop.

So, hand-drawn over a sketch-up ? What about all those wiggly and slightly irregularly-spaced parallels ?

fair enough criticism -- but, it still has more of a "done by hand or partially by hand" feel though than the ones posted above by metamechanic.

i'll be more careful in future.

Let's see a close-up. . .

This is about the best I can do for you ...

You understand -- this is not my drawing -- just a "sketch" I found online.

Thanks. Well I'm learning -- are we saying that every line there was done in Sketch-up Pro ? It all looks so completely hand-drawn. . .?

personally, I think it is a certain amount of hand work, applied over some sort of computer generated perspective. but, who knows for sure, other than the creator?

Ha ! Well there's perfect perspective, and a nice regularity to the squiggle, probably, and some other goodies -- wht's not to like ?

i don't think every line was drawn in sketch up. i think it was manipulated in psd, maybe with some extra hand drawing, especially the trees and the sky. but the building has gotta be sketchup.

Not a computer in sight ... let's move on.

there's nothing wrong with utilizing the computer on this thread

I agree ... I was though we were bogging down and I'd get us back on track with a sketch where there could be no doubt.

It that Fallingwater on its way into the stream ?

Robert Venturi

Pablo Picasso

Renzo Piano - Whitney Museum of American Art addition

The things you find in your copy of a 1971 book on presentation techniques. . .

I don't know what it is -- do you want me to find out ?


What, one of these wasn't enough ?


Oh, the horror. . .

are you talking about the architecture or the drawing?

The architecture. I suppose the drawings are quite accomplished. I like the Sant'Elia and the Venturi above more. . .

This, from the same volume, is a nice piece of work.

Yow. Richer than I've seen before. Always with the same b+w images. And don'cha love those figures. . .?

Rather abstract -- reminds me of Krazy Kat or another old comic ? Like it, anyway.

Who knew the Futurist was a Colorist ? Vienna had its influence on a number of early Europeans, no ?

cant post any images (the site is in flash) but it has a huge collection of scarpa's drawings for castelvecchio


scarpa

i hadn't seen that more 'polished', detailed sant'elia drawing before. starts to look like otto wagner. no wonder they didn't publicize that one more. he was WAY too establishment; that would have been embarrassing. the ones that look like they were dashed off in very little time and with very little detail are much more futurist-appropriate.

have we had links to kelvin's flickr site of all-rudolph-all-the-time yet?

here.

some beautiful stuff in there.

Le Volcan [The Volcano] Le Havre, France -
sketch by Oscar Niemeyer (in honor of his birthday)

Thomas Jefferson - draft sketch of Rotunda at University of Virginia

Iakov Chernikhov

William Chambers (1723-1796)
Presentation drawing for Marylebone Parish Church London
About 1770
Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour

distant that is cash money