Essay, Architectural designs

By: Hugh Ferriss

Date: 1929

Source: Ferriss, Hugh. The Metropolis of Tomorrow. New York: Ives Washburn, 1929, 15–17, 59, 65, 69, 87.

About the Author: Hugh Ferriss (1889–1962) was America's foremost "delineator"—;architectural renderer—;in the 1920s and throughout the next three decades. Ferriss received an architecture degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1911, then worked for two years as a draftsman for Cass Gilbert, architect of the Woolworth Building in New York City. In 1915, he started a career as an independent delineator. By 1921, Ferriss was already well known and highly sought after. He documented existing architecture and was commissioned by more than a hundred architectural firms to create presentation drawings for proposed building projects. He also produced design sketches for city planners, trade journals,...