New book on architectural drawings

    Lois Olcott Price
    Line, Shade and Shadow: The Fabrication and Preservation of
        Architectural Drawings

As documents of the built environment, as source material for
architectural historians and preservation architects, and as
stunning works of art, architectural drawings serve a wide and
diverse audience.

This book explores the materials and techniques used in their
fabrication while illustrating their evolution from the eighteenth
through the twentieth century. In addition to documenting the
drafting process, this exploration also contributes to an
understanding of the development of architectural design, the
architectural profession, and the manufacturers that served its
drafting and reprographic needs.

Because architectural drawings survive in great numbers and in
large, often unstable formats, preservation and access issues
present major challenges for institutions that hold research
collections. This book provides a comprehensive look at both the
problems and the solutions. It is beautifully illustrated with
examples from major collections and includes extensive source
citations.

The first three chapters discuss: the development of
drafting-specific drawing, detail, and tracing papers and cloths;
the changing media and techniques used in drafting, rendering, and
mounting working, detail, and presentation drawings; the use of
drawing instruments and correction and copying methods; and the
introduction, development, and identification of blueprints and
other photo-reproduction processes, including the history,
chemistry, and working procedure for each process.

The fourth and final chapter includes: an introduction to
preservation, collection management, storage, and exhibition
specifically for architectural drawings and photo-reproductions; and
descriptions of specific conservation treatments with an assessment
of their appropriateness for different deterioration issues and
types of drawings.

Lois Olcott Price is Director of Conservation at the Winterthur
Museum, Winterthur, DE. She holds an MS in art conservation and
serves as Assistant Winterthur Professor in the
Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She
also holds an MA in American Material Culture from the University of
Delaware. Since 1991, she has pursued a long-standing research
interest on the fabrication and preservation of American
architectural drawings. In support of her research she has received
several grants and has lectured, consulted, and published widely on
issues related to architectural drawings.

Available in US from Oak Knoll Press and in Europe from HES and DE
GRAAF Publishers.

Lois Olcott Price
Director of Conservation
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
5105 Kennett Pike
Winterthur, DE  19735
302-888-4633
Fax: 302-888-4838


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