Pedestrian City project, Hypostyle Courtyard (Structural details)

Roger C. Ferri

1979

A large ink and pastel on paper drawing that translates Roger C. Ferri’s Pedestrian City idea into detailed, buildable precast structural components for a Hypostyle Courtyard, showing how sculptural forms might be manufactured and assembled.

At first glance the sheet reads as both a delicate watercolor study and an engineer’s page: softly shaded blue and green rendered volumes sit beside precise black-line plans and annotated cross sections, with a calm, methodical layout of A–D assemblies that makes the designs feel tactile and imminently constructible.

The work sits at the intersection of design and fabrication—making visible a late-20th-century interest in modular precast construction, ornamented, human-scaled civic space, and the drawing-as-proposal that helped architects turn imaginative forms into repeatable building systems.

Palette

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Prefabrication Drawing Ink Pastel Prototype

Exhibitions

Architectural Projects by Roger Ferri and Allan Greenberg

1979

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Architectural Studies and Projects

1975

Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

1949