Nucleus of an Underground Building, project, Perspective
Walter Pichler
Austrian, 1936–2012
1962
A precise graphite and colored-pencil perspective on tracing paper that stages an imagined mechanical 'nucleus'—the central structural and service core of an underground building—intended to probe how layered systems interlock below ground.
You first notice the translucent, worn tracing paper and a web of fine construction lines, with a thin red plane slicing through rectilinear volumes and shaded cylindrical forms that read at once engineered and oddly organic.
Made during the early 1960s, the drawing embodies a strand of postwar architectural experimentation in which drawing itself became a tool for speculative, sculptural thinking about infrastructure and interiorized monumentality, influencing later conceptual and infrastructural design work.
Medium
Graphite and color pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions
16 3/4 x 19 1/2" (42.5 x 49.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Philip Johnson fund
Accession
568.1963
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