{"id":82455,"date":"2025-10-15T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82455\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:52:09","slug":"revel-in-the-beauty-of-architectural-drawings-in-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82455\/","title":{"rendered":"Revel In The Beauty Of Architectural Drawings In This Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-regular\">Drawing Architecture<br \/>By Helen Thomas<br \/>New York and London: Phaidon, $60<br \/>320 pages, 300+ color illustrations<\/p>\n<p class=\"size-regular\">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 celebrates that simple act of putting pen, pencil, or brush to paper. Included from the latter, an <a href=\"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/denise-scott-brown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interior Design Hall of Fame member<\/a>, is his sketch of a nondescript building, or \u201cdecorated shed,\u201d that proclaims itself a monument and appeared in Learning from Las Vegas, his 1972 book cowritten with his architect wife, Denise Scott Brown. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interior-Design_October-2025_books-3.jpg\" alt=\"book cover of Drawing Architecture\" class=\"wp-image-265439\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"size-regular\">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<p class=\"size-regular\">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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interior-Design_October-2025_books-4.jpg\" alt=\"interior of book\" class=\"wp-image-265440\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interior-Design_October-2025_books.jpg\" alt=\"3D catia sketch\" class=\"wp-image-265441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Interior-Design_October-2025_books-2.jpg\" alt=\"I am a monument poster\" class=\"wp-image-265438\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drawing ArchitectureBy Helen ThomasNew York and London: Phaidon, $60320 pages, 300+ color illustrations Even in today\u2019s digitized world,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-82455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}