Designed People

_ This blog is devoted to the drawings of people by those for whom depicting the human form is not the main aim nor skill but professional necessity: mostly architects and designers. I plan to cover mainly 60s-80s period. Please nag me with suggestions about what to (re-)post.

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Plan of Troieshchina district. Kiev, 1980s. Architects V. Votkalo, G. Gurenkov, V. Grechina, V. Kolomeev, V. Ezhov, engineers V. Zolotariov, A. Ivanov, V. Drizo.

From http://www.facebook.com/ukrsovarch and http://vk.com/sovmod.

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Xanadu Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas (never built). Exterior and interior (atrium with casino).

Architect: Martin Stern, Jr. A. I. A. Architect and Associates

List of names on the side reads: Berton Charles Severson, Brian Walter Webb Mas Tokubo, Fred Anderson, Joel Bergman, Bruce Koerner

Source - University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries

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1977. Project of Domodedovo Airport by A. Tarhanyan, S. Hachikyan, G. Pogosyan, Z. Shehlyan. From the new book about soviet Armenian architects АРХИТЕКТУРА СОВЕТСКОГО МОДЕРНИЗМА. АРТУР ТАРХАНЯН, СПАРТАК ХАЧИКЯН, ГРАЧЬЯ ПОГОСЯН by Karen Balyan (page has options to buy hardcopy or electronic copy).

source: vk.com/sovmod

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1976. Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects. Fulton Street Pedestrian Mall & Transitway, Brooklyn, NY.

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Library Learning Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972 (Project)

(Daverman Associates)

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1973. Philip F Farrell. Design for a space station, showing "Lounge area arranged for 'round table' meeting" and "Quiet area arranged as medical facility." Created by a Pratt Institute student in Interior Design.

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Circa 1973. The main entrance and lobby of the Boulevard Hotel in Sidney, Australia. Artist unknown. Interior design by George Surtees.

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Washington Metro. Harry Weese & Associates, De Leuw, Cather & Company. From Domus 564 / November 1976.

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1942 (1943?) Hotel de Turismo na Pampulha - Oscar Niemeyer (Tourist Hotel in Pampulha by Oscar Niemeyer). Hotel was never finished.

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70s airport interior.

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Diagram of quadraphonic audio system from Blaupunkt Idealprogramm 73/74 catalogue.

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Oswald Mathias Ungers, Ludwig Museum, 1975

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~1977. Early HP 9825A calculator/computer concept rendering by LeRoy LaCelle. Source.

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1964-66 Cedric Price Potteries Thinkbelt Project, Staffordshire, England, Perspective of Mobile Teaching Machines, (cover design for the October, 1966 issue of the journal Architectural Design)

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1975. From Architectural Graphics book by Francis D.K. Ching via http://alexwarrenarchitecture3.blogspot.com

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 From a drawing by Kenneth Browne, published in West End  (London: Architectural Press, 1971).

Source: American Urban Architecture Catalysts in the Design of Cities by Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan

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Atari Arcade Console Concept

1985

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Design by Ken Hata