I picked up an amazing book over the weekend called "Power In Buildings", and it got me interested in the author, Hugh Ferriss. The book is Ferriss's personal odyssey through the modern architecture of America from 1929 to 1953...Dams, bridge anchorages, grain elevators, skyscraper projects, and viaducts are delineated in Ferriss's rich work, and it's all pretty inspiring when you realize how influential his drawings have been on architecture, movies, and pop culture in general.
Hugh Ferriss (1889 – 1962) was an American delineator (one who creates perspective drawings of buildings) and architect. According to Daniel Okrent, Ferriss never designed a single noteworthy building, but after his death a colleague said he ‘influenced my generation of architects’ more than any other man. Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran’s “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”. “Just Imagine” (movie from 1930), strongly influenced by Hugh Ferriss’s book, Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929), takes the archetype vision of the future city as defined by a Manhattan-like skyline, and portrays it in all its beauty and majesty.
Hugh Ferriss Flickr Page
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