Archival Drawings Research Articles

The ‘Regular Fortress’ by Guarini and the Citadel of Turin

In his Trattato di Fortificatione, Guarino Guarini described and drew a pentagonal bastioned scheme as an ideal ‘regular fortress’. The closely connected geometry, architecture, and ballistics in the drawing form a true fortified system. Guarini draws his experience from knowledge of military architecture in Italy, Flanders, and France. He was in Turin when he wrote the treatise, so it could be hypothesized that the Citadel of Turin was one of his references. Using the tools of graphical analysis and history of representation, the aim of this paper is to identify Guarini’s models for the regular fortress and the points of divergence between his theorization and the Citadel of Turin as they appear in several archival drawings.

Rekomendacje dla nowej polityki miejskiej wobec zabytkowej zabudowy wielorodzinnej Lwowa

W artykule na podstawie analizy historycznej architektury wielorodzinnych obiektów Lwowa, zbudowanych w okresie od założenia miasta do lat 40. ХХ wieku zostały przedstawione rekomendacje dla nowej polityki mieszkaniowej, która ma na celu rekonstrukcję tej zabudowy do wyglądu sprzed 1945 roku. Zaprezentowane w pracy analizy i wnioski zostały opracowane na podstawie autorskich badań terenowych obejmujących 250 zabytkowych wielorodzinnych budynków Lwowa, a także analizy archiwalnych rysunków, planów inwentaryzacyjnych, projektów przebudowy 170 obiektów.

The Unknown Craftsman Made Real: Sopon Bezirdjian, Armenian-ness and Crafting the Late Ottoman Palaces

Sopon Bezirdjian (1839-1915) was an Armenian subject of the Ottoman Empire, born in Constantinople. He spent his earlier professional life designing the decorative programs for the palaces of Sultan Abdülaziz (r.1861–76), such as Beylerbeyi (1865) and Çırağan (1871), which were built under the management of the architect Serkis Balyan. This essay draws attention to legacy of Sopon, which has been virtually written out of the historiography. In contrast to recent interpretations that foreground cosmopolitanism, this essay stresses the Armenian nature of the teams that were responsible for these works of the 1860s to 70s and starts to place the role of Sopon within these teams. It also, through looking at Sopon’s archive of drawings, investigates Sopon’s engagement with his Ottoman, Armenian and the European (he moved to England around 1880) sides to his identity and shows how Armenian aspects were increasingly coming to the foreground as political strains increased. This essay puts forward the case for the highlighting the Armenian-ness behind the crafting of late Ottoman architecture and for the centrality of this working milieu to later communal transformations.

Reconstruction, modeling, animation and digital fabrication of 'architectures on paper'. Two ideal houses by Carlo Mollino

This paper develops some consideration about the issues raised by the reconstruction of 'architectures on paper' of contemporary masters.Generally archival drawings are patchy and fragmented and refer to different ideative moments and paths of inspiration that lend themselves to numerous and different interpretative readings. Moreover it's necessary a careful analysis of the author's poetics and significance of his work. Digital methods and techniques of representation, ranging from 3D modeling, video producing and digital fabrication, should be carefully selected and adapted to the characteristics identified through the interpretation of the project and what it is intended to communicate. In the cases studies of Mollino's 'ideal houses' were tested the capabilities of BIM modeling for this aims.

A pattern book of New Orleans architecture

Nearly five years ago, Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, subjecting one of North America’s most beloved cities to tremendous water damage. The architecture of New Orleans is a unique reflection of the city’s rich and colorful history, and so as the city continues to rebuild, architects, planners, and building professionals endeavor to preserve the city’s architectural heritage. With this book, homeowners and professionals alike can pore over 100 of the nearly 5,000 watercolor and gouache renderings of New Orleans architecture currently preserved at the New Orleans Notarial Archives. Author, lecturer, authority on historical architecture, and winner of the 1997 American Institute of Architects International Book Award, Roulhac B. Toledano has gathered 121 historical color illustrations dating from 1803 to 1918, and combined those images with thirty color and thirty-five black and white photos to capture what “old, renovated, restored, and new buildings might look like and should look like…[the] paintings and drawings serve as a pattern book of New Orleans architecture.” In addition to the many elevations and neighborhood plot plans, twenty-five black and white illustrations provide floor plans of many traditional homes, including Creole townhouses, shotguns, camelbacks, and villas. Toledano’s history of New Orleans’ architecture is broken into four sections. Though the first two sections, “Who and What Created New Orleans?” and “Recorders of New Orleans Building History,” read like a genealogy report, they comprise only ten percent of the book, and those who wish to trace the history of New Orleans’ surveyors or the method by which the architectural documents were commissioned or gathered may find this interesting. The bulk of the book is pictorial, divided between two additional sections, “Pattern Book for New Orleans Architecture” and “New Orleans Neighborhoods from Archival Drawings,” each of which is subdivided into chapters, according to the nationality of the architects or surveyors. The textual history in these sections is more lively than the earlier two sections, but it is the diversity of the

Mura di Roma dalla Porta Latina all'Appia

The stretch of the Aurelianic Walls from the Porta Latina to the Porta Appia comprises twelve towers linked bv curtain walls with covered walkways. The surviving state of the monument is described in detail. The individual phases (from AD 275 to the present) are distinguished through the analysis of their construction techniques, archive drawings and photographs of vanished sections, papal coats of arms, and inscriptions (in pencil or graffito) recording more recent events. When the entire circuit was doubled in height during the Honorian phase (AD 401–3), the floors of the towers were built at a considerably higher level than the rampart walkways, so as to exploit fully the type of siege machinery(halhstae)located in the towers' upper chambers. The Honorian loopholes, for the use of archers, reveal a long and complex history: undergoing modifications during construction, they were subsequently blocked to prevent the illegal traffic of goods (and the avoidance of customs dues), and were finally reopened and modified once again for the defence of papal Rome. The modern restorations of 1930–67 are examined critically. The need for immediate restoration and sustained maintenance to guarantee the monument's structural integrity is now clear. It is to be hoped that a direct link (with visitor access) will be provided with the ‘Museo delle Mura’, which was set up in the neighbouring Porta Appia in 1970.

Matse Sliki Tekle - A cultural history of the Ga funerary loin-cloth

One is not certain what form of apparel the Ga-Adangme developed for themselves for day to day as well as for ceremonial clothing, before their encounter with the Portuguese in the mid or late 15th century. However, archival materials obtained from accounts of persons who visited the Guinea Coast in the 18th Century, such as Roemer and Isert, give vivid description of a well-developed dress-culture. One striking item of apparel shown in archival drawings, referred to in the accounts of both Roemer and Isert, is the silk loin-cloth known as tekle. According to the detailed description of Isert, there were different styles and manner of ways of donning on this silk loin-cloth (sliki tekle). For men, the tekle ends hung down both in front and behind the lower part of the body. For women, the tekle ends were rolled up into a ball, which took a saddle-like form, known by the Ga as atofo. This apparel persisted in the Ga dress-culture, until it was replaced by the Portuguese influenced underwear called pioto amongst men. The paper explores the historical evolution of the sliki tekle as a funerary men's underwear and seeks to establish its socio-cultural significance for the Ga people. Institute of African Studies: Research Review Volume Research Review Supplement 17 2006: pp. 163-169

The Stylistic Characteristics of the Shampay House of 1919: A Formal Analysis

This paper analyzes the stylistic characteristics of the Shampay House with a series of formal methodologies. It focuses on three parts: spatial arrangement, symmetry and proportion. For the thorough analysis, archival drawings are enhanced through reconstructing new drawings and through the building of a quarter-inch scale model.

The Severan Buildings at Lepcis Magna

AbstractThis brief article outlines the history of John Ward-Perkins' involvement with the archaeology of the complex of buildings erected under the Severan dynasty at Lepcis Magna. The detailed survey of those superb monuments by British and Italian scholars has until now not received the level of publication which it merits. As that work finally goes to press, some explanation is given of the problems faced in preparing for publication the archive of drawings.

The Venus Belvedere: An Episode in Restoration

Previous articleNext article No AccessNotes and DocumentsThe Venus Belvedere: An Episode in RestorationArnold NesselrathArnold Nesselrath Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Volume 50, Number 11987 Published for the Warburg Institute and the Courtauld Institute Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/751328 Copyright © 1987 by The Warburg Institute. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.