b'SUPPORT: DESIGN STUDIES FOR ARCHITECTS is a slice through recentarchitecturaldesignasseenthroughthelensofbuilding envelope technology. This collection includes 270 sketches by the author from 80 well-known projects designed by 47 architectural firms including 10 Pritzger Prize winners. It offers a glimpse of the technical design explorations that are required while a building evolves into its final form.The projects range from the ground-breaking Centre Pompidou in ParisbyPianoandRogersfrom1974throughcollaborationswith the pioneering architect and engineer Frei Otto in Stuttgart, Germany and the renowned structural engineer Peter Rice in London up until the present day with sketch studies for some of the tallest and most complex buildings in the world.The drawings are all free-hand and explore structure, envelope and energy as determinants of a buildings final form, but also reveal a dialog with the architects design intent.Architecture is about process as well as outcome and the drawings provide a series of snapshots of this exploration.WilliamLoganisaRegisteredArchitectintheStateofNY.After attending Princeton Universitys School of Architecture and Harvards Graduate School of Design, he spent seven years working in Europe as an architect before returning to New York to work as a consultant with Israel Berger and Associates and, currently, with Vidaris where he is a Senior Principal.'