By Thomas DeVoss As an architect I often get asked, “What are your architectural styles?” I tend to deflect this question, saying I don’t really have a style, but that instead I have an approach to each project, and that varies with the location, climate, client needs, budget, etc. On the third page of…
Australian Harry Seidler (1923-2006) is revered in the architecture world as an articulate exponent of modernism and an inveterate photographer who traveled the world with a Leica filled with Kodachrome film recording architectural marvels. After attending Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, he apprenticed for German Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus School, and Hungarian architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer.
Architectural Detailing Review by Thomas DeVoss Architectural Detailing provides an introduction to the basics of drawing details (the places where materials intersect) for standard construction. While it may not have as many diagrams as Ching’s Building Construction Illustrated, or have the depth of Architectural Graphic Standards, it does an especially good job of explaining the purpose of each construction…