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- ISBN
- 9780262101226
- Book Title
- Drafting Culture : a Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards
- Item Length
- 11.6in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Architecture
- Topic
- History / Contemporary (1945-), Professional Practice, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Criticism
- Item Width
- 9.4in
- Item Weight
- 49.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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An examination of the standard reference book for architects as both practical sourcebook and window on changes in the profession. Architectural Graphics Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper, first published in 1932 (and now in its eleventh edition), is a definitive technical reference for architects--the one book that every architect needs to own. The authors, one a draftsman and the other an architect, created a graphic compilation of standards that amounted to an index of the combined knowledge of their profession. This first comprehensive history of Ramsey and Sleeper's classic work explores the changing practical uses that this "draftsman's Bible" has served, as well as the ways in which it has registered the shifts within the architectural profession since the first half of the twentieth century. When Architectural Graphics Standards first appeared, architecture was undergoing its transition from vocation to profession--from the draftsman's craft to the architect's academically based knowledge with a concomitant rise in social status. The older "drafting culture" gave way to massive postwar changes in design and building practice. Writing a history of the architectural profession from the bottom up--from the standpoint of the architectural draftsman--George Barnett Johnston clarifies the role and status of the subordinate architectural workers who once made up the base of the profession. Johnston's account of the evolution of Ramsey and Sleeper's book also offers a case study of the social hierarchies embedded within architecture's division of labor. Johnston investigates what became of the draftsman, and what became of drafting culture, and asks--importantly, in today's era of digital formats--what price is exacted from architectural labor as architecture pursues new professional ideals.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
026210122x
ISBN-13
9780262101226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038270077
Product Key Features
Book Title
Drafting Culture : a Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), Professional Practice, Individual Architects & Firms / General, Criticism
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Architecture
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
9.4in
Item Weight
49.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
Na1995.J64 2008
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Johnston charts the rich debates about the social-democratic possibilities of modern architecture and planning that accompanied, resisted, and at times advanced the industrialization of architectural labor. His account of the tensions between Frederick Ackerman's reformist agenda and the codification of draftsmanship in the pages of Architectural Graphic Standards,produced by Ackerman's employees Charles Ramsey and Harold Sleeper, is especially welcome at a time when euphoria over digital technology threatens to induce historical amnesia and political complacency among practitioners." -Casey Nelson Blake, Professor of History and Director of American Studies, Columbia University
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-039853
Dewey Decimal
720/.2840973
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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