{"id":265437,"date":"2025-10-15T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=265437"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:05:28","slug":"drawing-architecture-design-reads-phaidon","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/drawing-architecture-design-reads-phaidon\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel At The Beauty Of Architectural Drawings In This Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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October 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Wilson\u00a0Barlow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Courtesy of Phaidon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marvel At The Beauty Of Architectural Drawings In This Book<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Drawing Architecture<\/em>
By Helen Thomas
New York and London: Phaidon, $60
320 pages, 300+ color illustrations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in today\u2019s digitized world, designers still draw. For many it\u2019s still the foundational step in the process. By gathering drawings and paintings by masters cross a range of eras and disciplines\u2014Leonardo da Vinci to Robert Venturi\u2014Drawing Architecture<\/em> celebrates that simple act of putting pen, pencil, or brush to paper. Included from the latter, an Interior Design<\/em> Hall of Fame member<\/a>, is his sketch of a nondescript building, or “decorated shed,” that proclaims itself a monument and appeared in Learning from Las Vegas<\/em>, his 1972 book cowritten with his architect wife, Denise Scott Brown. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Like that shed, many of the images featured are unrealized or just conceptual, like architect Robert Bray\u2019s Playboy Pad for a 1970 issue of the magazine; it\u2019s shown alongside a doodle by Ettorre Sottsass of a stylish but structurally impossible edifice. Others are early versions of familiar, actual buildings\u2014but not necessarily done in analog fashion. For example, for a conception-phase plan of the Guggenheim Bilbao museum, Frank Gehry used CATIA, the software developed by the French aerospace industry that can produce multiaxial, curved forms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, the cover of the book, which includes a chronological index dating to ancient Mesopotamia and the earliest recognizable architectural plan, nods to the craft: It\u2019s Buckminster Fuller\u2019s study for one of his geodesic spheres, the lines slightly impressed into the surface as if it had been drawn there by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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