Old architectural plans/drawings
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I'm looking for resources of old architectural plans and drawings. Plans from the time everything was hand-drawn - especially where the text was written in nice cursive.
It's for inspiration for a design to a web-site I'm building. http://www.webarchitecture.info/ The theme throughout the site is using architecture as an analogue to building web-sites. I'm playing with the idea of taking that theme to the visual presentation of the site as well.
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Thomthom,
Plenty of things on the internet. Internet archives, "National Archives" (UK).
Here's one (took some digging to find the browsing page): http://images.lib.ncsu.edu:8180/luna/servlet/view/all?sort=Division+Sequence+Number%2CPageSequenceNumber%2CFilename
And nice website you have, as far as it goes. No, really: good luck.
P
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I only see butterflies on that link...
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and what's wrong with butterflies?
Very funny. After quitting/restarting Firefox, I get butterflies too. Anyway North Carolina State University Library has a lot of architectural drawings online, if you look for them.
Try on the sidebar "built heritage" "detail drawings" etc.
P
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I'll have a look. Thank. -
How about this link?
http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/greeneandgreene/It's not specifically architectural but there are some drawings that are probably like what you have in mind.
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Check out this RIBA Drawing archive site (There may be a fee involved, but the stuff is top notch)
David
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Thanks.
It's not strictly architectural. Engineering, technical drawing similar to this, http://www.totalizm.pl/cr/mozajski_plan.jpg also works. -
Blueprints are also very nice.
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The Library of Congress' Historic American Buildings Survey on-line records:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
There's a mix of computer and hand drawn documents, as well as photographs. For instance, if you do a search on Greene & Greene, the first result (Gamble House) has hand drawn pland and elevations fully dimensioned and annotated.
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