1st Edition

The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

By Charles Hind, Fiona Orsini, Susan Pugh Copyright 2022
240 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

240 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

A club house in a castle in the West End of London, complete with battlements and turrets, from 1882. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the City of London in 1945. A fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier’s Capriccio of Notre-Dame du Haut in ruins. A section of a 19th-century townhouse, showing a slice of the staircase wallpaper winding from deep navy on the ground floor to pale sky... Read more

About the Authors

About the RIBA Collections

Introduction by Charles Hind

Essay on architectural drawing by Hugh Pearman

1. Concept sketches

2. Buildings in context

3. Presentation drawings

4. Technical and working drawings

5. Study sketches

6. Fantasy architecture

7. Born-digital drawing Image credits Provenance

Biography

Charles Hind is Chief Curator and H.J. Heinz Curator of Drawings at the RIBA. His areas of specialty are Andrea Palladio and British architecture of the 17th to early 20th centuries. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and Visiting Fellow at the Centro Palladio, Vicenza.

Fiona Orsini is a Curator of the Drawings & Archives Collection at the RIBA. Her areas of interest include art deco and midcentury architecture and design.

Susan Pugh is a Curator of the Drawings & Archives Collections at the RIBA. She specialises in 19th century British architecture.