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A section drawing (also called a section, or sectional drawing) depicts a structure as though it had been sliced in half or cut along an imaginary plane, usually at a vertical orientation, allowing the viewer to see the interior of a building and, if applicable, its different levels or floors.
- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 1900–1950
- 1950–1990
- 1990 to Today
During the eighteenth century, the utopianism, which was recognised in the context of the works of the Enlightenment, was applied in the design of ‘ideal, visionary and/or utopian’ settlements and buildings, which begun to be consistently present in the aesthetic and design research. Dimensional exaltation and geometric purification, which constitu...
From the first decades of the twentieth century, the prefiguration of utopian architecture and engineering works developed, through the Section, both on the urban-territorial scale and on the more strictly architectural-design scale, starting from the innovative visions of the avant-garde movements to culminate in the experiments of the Modern Move...
The Utopian Sections of the late twentieth century have in common the ideals of ‘the machine’, the movement, the soil-saving, given the growing industrial and technological revolution. The general intent of the experiences mentioned below was meant to multiply the territorial surfaces as much as possible through actions such as overlapping or exten...
The ‘Utopian Sections’ of the last 30 years have been influenced mainly by historical events of global importance and by the growing development of new technologies. This happened due to the raising of population awareness towards climate change, re-use, and reconversion of abandoned or degraded areas of today’s metropolises. Lebbeus Woods, Berlin ...
- Mickeal Milocco Borlini, Maria Vittoria Santi
- 2021
Dec 2, 2020 · The following drawings and commentaries have been excerpted from Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections (Oro Editions, 2020). The publication surveys the use of section drawings in the histories of architecture and other professions, from the 17th century to the present.
A detailed explanation of section drawings: what they are, where they are used, their different types, how to create them, and much more.
Aug 29, 2019 · “Extrusion,” “Stack,” “Shape,” “Shear,” “Hole,” “Incline,” and “Nest” each highlight a different design strategy that is exemplified by enlarged sections from well-known built projects of the...
- Marie Chatel
Jul 8, 2018 · However, it is possible to infer that the section is, and historically has been, the most interesting drawing since it is understood as a representation of the architectural design itself.
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Mar 5, 2014 · Iconic works from artists including Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Marcel Duchamp and more are reinterpreted as cross-sectional drawings of buildings in this series from Italian ...
