Drawing the Future

Fülszöveg

Architects help design our future, but an ex-
traetiinafy interpretive talent is often needed to
bring their work Into a tangible, real-world con-
teMt prior to the construction of the projects.
Drawing the Future, a celebration of architec-
tural perspectivist Paul Stevenson Qles's intri-
cate wax-pencii renderings, is both a revealing
study of such an interpretive talent and a timely
overview of the first decade of postmodern
architecture,
As even a cursory scan of these one hundred
!Hydrations will show, Oles's vivid delineating
technique captures nuance and detail every bit
as faithfully as the photographer's lens. A more
thoreugh examination, however, reveals a
ings in theif respective environments and a life-
like almost Organic quality to the drawings, a
textUral richness that captures the structure in a
living moment of time as a photograph cannot.
these illustrations, many appearing for the first
time are the result of sixty-one major projects... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Architects help design our future, but an ex-
traetiinafy interpretive talent is often needed to
bring their work Into a tangible, real-world con-
teMt prior to the construction of the projects.
Drawing the Future, a celebration of architec-
tural perspectivist Paul Stevenson Qles's intri-
cate wax-pencii renderings, is both a revealing
study of such an interpretive talent and a timely
overview of the first decade of postmodern
architecture,
As even a cursory scan of these one hundred
!Hydrations will show, Oles's vivid delineating
technique captures nuance and detail every bit
as faithfully as the photographer's lens. A more
thoreugh examination, however, reveals a
ings in theif respective environments and a life-
like almost Organic quality to the drawings, a
textUral richness that captures the structure in a
living moment of time as a photograph cannot.
these illustrations, many appearing for the first
time are the result of sixty-one major projects
undertaken from 1976 through 1986. Marty of
the projects are represented by more than one
depiction, including multiple view and day/
night comparisons, further reinforcing Oles's
devotion to architectural perspectivism as a
non-static, interpretive form. The works are
divided into six chapters based on project loca-
tion> with Oles's accompanying commentary
describing the challenges and opportunities
presented by each project as well as his evalua-
tive thoughts at their completion.
The duotone reproductions herein are the first
to ée justice to the power and subtlety possible
With Ôies's method of value delineation. Archi-
tects, illustrators» and students will welcome
this volume of drawings which may, as Oles
himself puts it, "Continue to have meaning as
ttforks 6f art even after the future they represent
has become history." Vissza