SUPPORT: DESIGN STUDIES FOR ARCHITECTS is a slice through 
recent architectural design as seen through the lens of building 
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 
Paris by Piano and Rogers from 1974 through collaborations with 
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 building’s final form, but also reveal a 
dialog with the architect’s design intent.  Architecture is about process 
as well as outcome and the drawings provide a series of snapshots 
of this exploration.
William Logan is a Registered Architect in the State of NY. After 
attending Princeton University’s School of Architecture and Harvard’s 
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.

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