Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Images for "Constructing with Lines"

Hi all,
The quality of the scan for the reading is lacking in clarity.  So, to help you out a bit- here they are in color and hopefully, easier to see.

The Invention of Drawing, Joseph Suvee, 1791

The Invention of Drawing, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1830

Abraham Bosse Manière universelle de M. Desargues pour pratiquer la perspective, Paris 1492



Artist Drawing a Lute, Albrecht Durer, 1525

Athanasius Kircher, Application of the Magic Lantern, 1660


Mario Bettini, Reproduction of an Eye by Means of Catoptric Anamorphosis Upon a Cylindrical Surface, 1642

El Lissitzky, Proun, 1923

Computer Reconstruction of Proun by UC Berkeley Student
 El Lissitzky, Proun Space Reconstruction Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, 1965


Peter Eisenman, House X Axonometric Model, 1978

1 comment:

  1. regarding house X - please give credit. I built this model with F. Lemoine and photographed it. See flickr/zaru photostream
    Thanks - A. Barake

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