Linear City Project, Perspective
Raimund Abraham
American, born Austria. 1933–2010
1964
An ink-and-graphite perspective drawing of Abraham’s Linear City proposal that imagines a monumental, machine-like urban structure carved into rock to rethink circulation and habitation.
A single dramatic, cinematic viewpoint dominates—the domed, grid-marked roof sweeps forward between jagged cliff faces, exposing circular portals and densely hatched mechanical interiors that make the city read more like a vast engine than a conventional town.
Made in 1964, this is part of postwar visionary architecture in which drawing became a speculative tool for utopian infrastructures, expanding how architects proposed radical urban forms through evocative, sculptural imagery.
Medium
.1: Ink and graphite on paper
.2: Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
.1: 17 1/2 x 24 3/4" (44.5 x 62.9 cm)
.2: 8 1/4 x 15 1/2" (21 x 39.4 cm)
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Credit
Philip Johnson Fund
Accession
282.1965.1-2
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