Line, Shade & Shadow: Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings
Document Type
Video
Date
10-28-2011
Keywords
Lois Olcott Price, architectural drawings, architecture, paper conservation, art on paper, cartoons, Brodsky Series
Language
English
Disciplines
Archival Science | Art and Materials Conservation | Art Practice | Book and Paper | Library and Information Science
Description/Abstract
The Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation presents Lois Olcott Price speaking on the topic of architectural drawings. Because architectural drawings are not created as an end in themselves, but as graphic documents to construct a building, sell a project or explore a design concept, the materials and techniques chosen by the drafter are particular to the function of the drawing as well as the period in which it was created. The interpretation and preservation of architectural drawings depends upon an understanding of their functions in architectural practice and on a working knowledge of drafting materials and techniques. This lecture will include tracing the use of supports, media and photo-reproductive processes used to create architectural drawings in the 18th to 20th centuries.
Price is Director of Conservation at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware where she directs a staff of 23 conservators and support staff and promotes conservation activities and education throughout the institution and in the larger community. She recently published a monograph with Oak Knoll Books on her work with collections of architectural drawings entitled Line, Shade and Shadow: the Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings.
See more on the Brodsky Series Page at: https://library.syr.edu/scrc/programs/brodsky.php
Recommended Citation
Price, Lois O., "Line, Shade & Shadow: Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings" (2011). Brodsky Series. 7.
https://surface.syr.edu/pres_brodsky/7
Full-text of lecture
L_Price-Line_Shade_Shadow-slides.pdf (3767 kB)
Lecture slides
L_Price-Line_Shade_Shadow-workshop_handouts.pdf (642 kB)
Workshop handouts
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