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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sir John Soane’s Grand Tour: Its Impact on His Architecture and His Collections
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Front Matter
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The Necessity for Drawing
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Graves’s Travels: Giants and Dwarfs
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About this book
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 thearchitecture. 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Michael Graves
Book Subtitle: Images of a Grand Tour
Authors: Brian M. Ambroziak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-657-2
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press New York, NY
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Princeton Architectural Press 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 210 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Architects