Drafting culture
Subtitle: a social history of Architectural graphic standards
By: George Barnett Johnston.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780262101226
Subjects: Ramsey, Charles George, -- 1884-1963; Architectural practice -- United States -- History; Architects -- United States -- Social conditions; Drafters -- United States -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to drafting culture; title: Drafting manuals and manual training : Rouillon and Ramsey's Architectural details; title: Drafting room journal : dialectics of the architect and the draftsman in Pencil points, 1920-1932; title: Drafting standards : architecture as a social service in the office of Frederick L. Ackerman; title: Drafting conventions : Ramsey and Sleeper's Architectural graphic standards; title: Epilogue : drafted culture.