Underground Building, project (Isometric)
Walter Pichler
Austrian, 1936–2012
1963
An ink-and-graphite isometric drawing on paper proposing an 'Underground Building' in which Pichler treats architecture as a carved, mechanized sculpture of interlocking volumes and passages.
The drawing greets you with clinical precision—finely hatched planes form a monolithic block pierced by slots, ramps, and cylindrical voids that read like the cross-section of a machine or a ruined fortress.
Made in 1963, the work sits at the intersection of sculpture and architectural speculation, part of a postwar tendency to use exacting, diagrammatic drawings to imagine radical, often unbuildable environments and to rethink infrastructure and the body in space.
Medium
Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
15 x 27 1/4" (38.1 x 69.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Philip Johnson Fund
Accession
566.1963
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