Title Michael Graves : images of a grand tour / Brian M. Ambroziak ; with a foreword by Michael Graves

Published New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) Contents The necessity for seeing -- Plates: Rome -- Other Italian locales -- Greece -- Turkey -- France -- Spain -- United Kingdom Summary Michael Graves the extraordinary experience of two years at the American Academy in Rome in the early 1960 s transformed how I looked at the world around me. In that rich and marvelous city, I came to understand architecture as a continuum from antiquity to the present day, and thus as a language. I discovered new ways of seeing and analyzing both architecture and landscape. I also developed an urgent need to record what I saw and created hundreds of photographs and drawings. It has been a great joy to work with Brian Ambroziak on his ambitious project to publish many of them in this book, accompanied by his insightful commentary. I have always been fascinated by drawing. In fact, it was my ability to draw that led me to a career in architecture. Until I went to Rome, however, I had created dr- ings only in my studio, never in the street or landscape. While there, rather than searching for a single manner of drawing, I experimented with multiple methods that I thought might express the architecture. I made large, elaborate sepia and black ink washes of important baroque churches, 40 x 28 inches in size; quick notations in fine ink or crude pencil in a hand-sized notebook; and pencil sketches on a wonderful cream-colored clay-coated paper, with fluid lines that captured just the essence of a profile. No matter what media I chose, my drawings were always analytical Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In Springer e-books Subject Graves, Michael, 1934-2015 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Graves, Michael, 1934-2015 -- Travel -- Europe SUBJECT Graves, Michael, 1934-2015 fast Subject Architectural drawing -- United States -- 20th century Architecture -- Europe -- Pictorial works ARCHITECTURE -- Individual Architects & Firms -- Essays. ARCHITECTURE -- Individual Architects & Firms -- Monographs. Architectural drawing Architecture Travel Europe United States Genre/Form Electronic books Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. Pictorial works Form Electronic book Author Graves, Michael, 1934-2015. ISBN 1568985290 9781568985299 1568986572 9781568986579 9786611065997 6611065997

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