1928 Drafting Room Practice Eugene Clute (Architecture, Design)

Description: 1928 Drafting Room Practice Eugene Clute Pencil Points Press Book INTRODUCTION THE purpose of this book is to present, in a clear and useful manner, a view of present-day drafting room practice, as exemplified by the methods employed in the offices of some of the best architects. The entire work of the drafting room is included within the scope of this book, not merely the actual making of draw- ings, but the handling of projects from the time they come into the office until they are completed. It is assumed that the architect's or designer's first little pencil sketch embodying the parti belongs to drafting room work quite as much as does any working drawing and that the governing conditions, without a knowledge of which it is impossible to make any drawing of a proposed building, are also within the field of the drafting room. The progress of the work is followed from the study of the program through the making of sketch studies, the preliminary drawings and the presentation drawings, then through the study of the design by the use of models and perspective drawings, to and through the making of the working drawings, including drawings for the various trades, equipment drawings, shop drawings, scale details and full sizes. The subject is presented by the reproduction of drawings selected from the actual work of a number of the best drafting rooms with only so much text matter as seems to be indispensable. The story is told by the drawings. The viewpoint taken here is that a building should be a thoroughly practical and aesthetically good expression of the requirements of the program in terms of present- day construction, utilizing all that is applicable in the architectural traditions. Most buildings nowadays are of so highly special a character, in their purpose, equipment and construction, that an acquaintance with the practical requirements of different kinds of buildings is more important than ever before. Our buildings have as much the nature of highly specialized machines as they have of architectural character. For this reason a chapter of this book is devoted to placing emphasis upon the requirements for buildings intended for different uses. An attempt has been made here to show the whole picture to indicate the prac- tical requirements and the ways of meeting them, ways of working out the design in the drafting room and ways of expressing the design in drawings so that it may be built in accordance with the architect's intention, also ways of making the drawings that save labor in the drafting room and facilitate the work in the field. The aim in preparing this book has been to assemble in convenient form such material as the reader might obtain if he were to visit a large number of the best architectural offices, have access to the files of drawings and talk with the architects and members of their staffs about the ways in which they design buildings, and make their presentation drawings and working drawings, New York, 1928. EUGENE CLUTE,

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