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Hugh Ferriss

Hugh Ferriss (1889 - 1962) was active/lived in New York, Missouri.  Hugh Ferriss is known for Detailed charcoal architectural drawings, skyscrapers, cityscapes.

Hugh Ferriss was an architect and American delineator, one who creates drawings and sketches of buildings. According to Daniel Okrent, Ferriss never designed a single noteworthy building, but after his death a colleague said he 'influenced my generation of architects' more than any other man. Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City, the setting for Batman, and Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Ferriss was trained as an architect at Washington University in his native St. Louis, Missouri, but, early in his career, began to specialize in creating architectural renderings for other architects' work rather than designing buildings himself. As a delineator, his task was to create a perspective drawing of a building or project. This was done either as part of the sales process for a project, or, more commonly, to advertise or promote the project to a wider audience. Thus, his drawings frequently were destined for annual shows   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5988 characters.]  Artist bio

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