RIBA Collections is poised to publish a compendium of architectural drawings bringing together hundreds of pieces by architects ranging from Zaha Hadid to Christopher Wren and Erno Goldfinger to Andrea Palladio.

Many of the illustrations in The Architecture Drawing Book are previously unpublished and its 200-plus colour reproductions include back-of-envelope concept sketches, glamorous perspectives, exploded axonometrics and born-digital drawings.

Elizabeth Webster, senior commissioning editor at RIBA Publishing, said notable drawings in the £45 book range from a Victorian clubhouse in a castle in the West End of London, complete with battlements and turrets, to a design for the post-war reconstruction of the capital. There is also a 1945 fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier’s Capriccio of Notre-Dame du Haut in ruins.

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