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Welcome to d_shape. The nonist » Hugh Ferriss: Delineator of Gotham. Picked up a reprinting of a 1929 book by Hugh Ferriss titled The Metropolis of Tomorrow.

the nonist » Hugh Ferriss: Delineator of Gotham

Ferriss was the preeminent architectural draftsman of his time who through his moody chiaroscuro renderings of skyscrapers virtually inventing the image of Gotham visitors came to the city to see and residents identified with so fondly. As Michael Mallow puts it: “By the mid-twenties, renderings by Ferriss had become almost de rigeur for successful competition projects; countless skyscrapers waited their turn to be bathed in the dark monumentality emanating from his drafting table. Bldgblog. Lebbeus woods. Old Architecture Pictures by wannes deprez.