Sketchbooks
Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches by George Saumarez Smith Triglyph Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781916355439 | $55.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : George Saumarez Smith, a director of ADAM Architecture, is celebrated for the elegance of his work as one of Britain’s foremost Classical architects. As a student at Edinburgh University, he belonged to the last year group to be taught the skill of measured drawing as part of the core syllabus and it would become a passion for him. Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches presents a selection of the drawings that he has made in the last twenty-five years, in a series of sketchbooks each of which is named after one of the Roman Emperors. The drawings display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art. They constitute a series of concentrated observations on buildings from different parts of...