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Questions about Typography of Architecture
2006.03.29 20:39
Steven, it was not the goal of early CAD to see how much CAD drawings could look like hand drawings. In some ways CAD, at least very good early CAD like Intergraph, designed for NASA, had it's own new drawing aesthetic. You could say, however, that it was the goal of a lot of established (CAD resistant) architects "to see how much like hand drawings" CAD drawing could be.
Plus, what I wrote above doesn't just sound right, it is right. I was there.
The second set of CAD CDs I produced were for a project by Carles Vallhonrat (he was the project architect for Kahn's Salk Institute) and he very much sought to work within the CAD drawing aesthetic which ultimately were meshed with the CD drawing standards he set years earlier for the CDs of Salk Institute. There is no doubt in my mind that that was a rare exercise/experience in 1984. I was most glad that he complied with my wish to "print" the drawings at 11" x 17", thus using the electrostatic printer (as opposed to the pen plotter) and then the Xerox machine for copies instead of the "blue print" machine.
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