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A collection of the award-winning architect's travel sketches,
showing inspirational buildings across the globe. Includes Sydney
Opera House, St Paul's Cathedral and the Tokyo skyline. Chris
Wilkinson, the founder of the architectural practice WilkinsonEyre,
is responsible for beautiful buildings and structures in London and
beyond, including the Gasholders at King's Cross, the redevelopment
of Battersea Power Station, and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. In
this appealing publication, Wilkinson presents the sketches he
makes while travelling for business and leisure, usually focusing
on inspirational buildings or urban cityscapes. His travels have
taken him as far afield as the West Indies, Russia, Egypt,
Australia and Japan. Wherever he goes, he finds an hour or two to
sit and sketch - whether in a hotel room with a view or on a cafe
terrace with a cappuccino. From the medieval Tuscan town of Lucca
to ancient Egyptian architecture, the Sydney Opera House and the
skylines of London, Tokyo and New York, Wilkinson introduces each
sketch and ruminates on his work, his travels, and the cities and
buildings that have most inspired him.
Despite being at the forefront of high-tech innovation in
architecture, Chris Wilkinson obe ra is an architect who believes
passionately in the importance of drawing by hand. Where many
practices are now dominated by computeraided design, Wilkinson
still uses drawing as a way to think through ideas, to grapple with
design problems and as a tool of communication. This volume brings
together images selected from twenty years of Wilkinson's
sketchbooks, presenting a fascinating record not just of
draughtsmanship but of the creation of architectural narrative.
Covering every stage of the design process, this unique insight
into the working drawings of a hugely influential architect
includes sketches for many of his practice's most groundbreaking
works - from structures for the London Olympics to the restoration
and reconstruction of the three Grade II listed gas holders in
Kings Cross, London - as well as a gazetteer with photographs of
the final projects. Chris Wilkinson: Sketchbooks is both an
essential purchase for anyone interested in the development of
architectural draughtsmanship and a powerful demonstration of its
importance.
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