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Writing in Architects' Journal, Greg Pitcher cited "the exceptional quality of their highly selective publications" and their work in supporting promising young architects, through which they have "created retrospectively an international Who’s Who of the architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centuries."
An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...
I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), written in Italian. It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with woodcuts after the author's own drawings. It has been reprinted and translated many times, often in single ...
Architects' Data (German: Bauentwurfslehre), also simply known as the Neufert, is a reference book for spatial requirements in building design and site planning.First published in 1936 by Ernst Neufert, [1] its 39 German editions and translations into 17 languages have sold over 500,000 copies. [2]
Hart, Vaughan (2003). ‘“Of little or even no importance to the architect.” On Absent Ideals in Serlio’s Drawings in the Sixth Book on Domestic Architecture’, in The Rise of the Image: Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book, Series Title: Histories of Vision, volume one, edited by Rodney Palmer and Thomas Frangenberg, pp.87-104.
Frontispiece for the 1918 publication of Volumes III and IV in the series. The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, subtitled "A Bi-Monthly Publication Suggesting the Architectural Use of White Pine and Its Availability Today as a Structural Wood", was a landmark publication of drawings, photographs and descriptions of early American architecture.
De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. [1] Although largely dependent on Vitruvius 's De architectura , it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance , and in 1485 it became the first printed book on architecture.
Paul Emmons (born 1957) is an architect, professor, and author specializing in the history and theory of architectural drawing practices.He is the Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech's Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC). [1]