{"id":3566,"date":"2013-12-17T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2014-01-27T02:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T06:10:49","slug":"book-review-100-years-architectural-drawings-1900-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/12\/17\/book-review-100-years-architectural-drawings-1900-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: 100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/spacingvancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/features\/book-reviews_feature-VAN.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author: Neil Bingham (Laurence King Publishing, 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The late Australian avant-garde artist Brett Whiteley once said &#8220;A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace or probing authoritatively the unknown.&#8221; No statement could be more fitting to a number of \u00a0architects past, especially the latter. Representing that which does not yet exist is critical within the field of architecture and, thus, it is no surprise that architectural designers amongst the most prolific of those who have used and experimented with drawing as a form of expression. This fact spurred the creation of Neil Bingham&#8217;s wonderful <em>100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000<\/em> &#8211; a book that ambitiously collects a global sampling of important architectural drawings across the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Chronologically order, the 300 collected drawings cover a wide range of mediums (from pen and ink to collage and prints) and\u00a0are grouped according to significant periods of time related to architectural representation\u2014<em>1900-1913: Architectural Drawing with Tradition, 1914-1938: Modern Experiments in Architectural Drawing, 1939-1959: The Modern Architectural Drawing, 1960-1973: The Alternative Architectural Drawing<\/em>, and <em>1974-2000: The Dextrous Architectural Drawing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Each section is prefaced by a short 2-page essay highlighting the era in question as well as some of the key architects and drawings in the pages that follow. As a book about drawings, <em>100 Years\u2026<\/em> is dominated by images &#8211; one per page, with key information about the drawing (i.e. name of architect, project, year, medium, etc.) and a short 2 paragraph description related to the image, along the bottom of each sheet. Simple and effective.<\/p>\n<p>The drawings themselves encompass everything from beautifully rendering perspectives and elevations of buildings, to detailed drawings of building fragments and rough sketches. The content of the drawings range in scale, spanning city-scaled interventions to small buildings.<\/p>\n<p>As many in the field of architecture and urbanism with readily admit, some of the most influential architectural projects exist solely as drawings. This being the case, Bingham&#8217;s compendium includes a wide variety of built and unbuilt projects by a staggering number of architects from around the world, well-known and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this hard-cover book encloses a visually stunning, amazingly diverse, and historical significant collection of architectural drawings from the twentieth century. Anybody interested in architecture and\/or architectural drawing techniques is sure to find inspiration within&#8230;&#8230;and with Christmas just around the corner,\u00a0<em>100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000 <\/em>would make a great gift for all those last-minute shoppers hunting for friends and family who love fantastic depictions of the built environment.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on\u00a0<strong>100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000<\/strong> visit the Laurence King Publishers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenceking.com\/en\/100-years-of-architectural-drawing-1900-2000\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Erick Villagomez\u00a0<\/strong>is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and designer with personal and professional interests in the urban landscapes. His private practice \u2013 Metis Design|Build \u2013 is an innovative practice dedicated to a collaborative and ecologically responsible approach to the design and construction of places. You can also see some of his drawing and digital painting adventures at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/visualthoughts.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Thoughts<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Neil Bingham (Laurence King Publishing, 2013) The late Australian avant-garde artist Brett Whiteley once said &#8220;A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace or probing authoritatively the unknown.&#8221; No statement could be more fitting to a number of \u00a0architects past, especially the latter. Representing that which does not yet exist is critical<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/12\/17\/book-review-100-years-architectural-drawings-1900-2000\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Book Review: 100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":3567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,413],"tags":[463,437],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-features","tag-book","tag-book-review"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Book Review: 100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000 - Spacing National<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/12\/17\/book-review-100-years-architectural-drawings-1900-2000\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book Review: 100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000 - Spacing National\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Author: Neil Bingham (Laurence King Publishing, 2013) The late Australian avant-garde artist Brett Whiteley once said &#8220;A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace or probing authoritatively the unknown.&#8221; No statement could be more fitting to a number of \u00a0architects past, especially the latter. 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