Architect Drawings : A Selection of Sketches by World Famous Architects Through History

Figure 7.16 / Smithson, Alison
Sketch plans for two Snowball Appliance Houses. CCA, DR 1995:0052. 12 11.5 cm; pen
and black ink on tracing paper; 1957. Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal ©Alison and Peter Smithson.
Figure 7.17 / Candela, Felix
Paragnas en San Jerominio. Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, DR 69–12.
Approximately 12 16 in.; marker sketch with shadows; 1960. ©Avery Architectural and
Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Figure 7.18 / Rossi, Aldo
Perspective sketches, sketch plans, and detail sketches for the Centro Direzionale, Florence.
CCA, DR 1987; 0152. 29.7 21 cm; blue ballpoint pen and black felt tip marker on glossy
white paper; 1977. © Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for
Architecture, Montréal.
Figure 8.1 / Agrest, Diana
Sport City, Design process: plan study, overall view. Sport City, Shanghai, China. Aerial
view: 13 9.5 in., Plan: 13 10.5 in.; black ink on trace paper; October 18, 2003. ©Agrest
and Gondelsonas.
Figure 8.2 / Ando, Tadao
Preliminary design sketch, light slit on the altar. Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan.
11.7 8.5 in.; felt pen on Japanese paper (washi); 1987. ©Tadao Ando.
Figure 8.3 / Botta, Mario
Sketch studies for the ground floor plan and verifications of the building’s volume and
shape. The Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1998.
31 50 cm; pencil on white sketching paper; 1996. ©Mario Botta.
Figure 8.4 / Calatrava, Santiago
Sketch plan (05). Tenerife Concert Hall, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
30 40 cm; watercolour; 1999. ©Santiago Calatrava.
Figure 8.5 / Chen, Shi Min
Section sketch. Nan Hai Hotel, SheKou, ShenZhen, China. 8.3 11.7 in.; pencil on tracing
paper; October 24, 1982. ©Chen Shi Min.
Figure 8.6 / COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Prix, Wolf D. (1942) and Swiczinsky, Helmut (1944). Untitled sketch. BMW Welt,
Munich, Germany. 29.7 21 cm.; black felt pen; 2001. ©COOP HIMMELB(L)AU.
Figure 8.7 / Correa, Charles
Housing sketch. 1999. ©Charles Correa.
Figure 8.8 / Diller, Elizabeth
Blur process sketch. Blur Building, Swiss Expo 2002. 7.5 7.5 in.; ink on napkin;
December 28, 1998. ©Elizabeth Diller.
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