Off The Shelf

Architects' SketchBooks

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

If you're fascinated with architecture and design like we are, then this book could set your RSJ's a  tingling.

Full to the brim with colourful concepts and game plans for houses, apartments, factories, outhouses, land layouts, eco/eye (friendly car parks), bridges, airports and more... gasp, breathe!

The architects contributing to the book stack up as well, with people like:

Ben Addy

Will Alsop

BPR

Brent Buck

Cindy Rendely

Fantastic Norway

Norman Foster

Sean Godsell

Eva Jiricna

DMAA

A4 Studio - need we say more, oh go on then... more!

With captions and a general summary of the artist or studio, it is well written and enhanced by examples of  drawings/scribbles/sketches of individual's work or works in progress. Also with computer mock - ups, models and simulations to stimulate even the most mundane of clientele and others like Ben Addy starting off his ideas with a simple pen, pencil and paper to get the creative juices flowing.

Here is a classic comment from Frank Clementi when he exclaims, "I wish I could draw better. I wish I knew what to draw. Tree's shouldn't look like boulders on scaffolding - that's how mine turn out if I'm not careful"

RD (It's refreshing to know it happens to the pro's as well)☋

OK, time to get your hard hat and steel toe caps on, we're going inside...

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