<p>New Orleans Observed: Drawings and Observations of America s Most Foreign City is a collection of drawings and observations made primarily while Errol Barron was on sabbatical from the Tulane University School of Architecture (2009). Each day for several hours he would drive or ride a bicycle through the neighborhoods of the city stopping where something caught his eye. The book is loosely organized by areas the old quarter, downtown, the center, uptown with scattered examples of local buildings, places, and oddities. The drawings, varied and improvisational like the book itself, are taken from his sketchbooks and are reproduced here in the same format and size of those books. Included are a foreword by John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs, The Historic New Orleans Collection, and notes on the drawings in the back of the book. Altogether, the book illustrates aspects of the city that have inspired affection, respect, and humor and records the many trips exploring a place that defies easy description.</p>

New Orleans Observed: Drawings and Observations of America's Most Foreign City

Errol Barron

Walsworth Publishing Company

<p>In Roma Osservata/Rome Observed Errol Barron has once again compiled a collection of drawings based on the features of a beloved city. As in its predecessor, New Orleans Observed, he has in this small volume reproduced pages from his sketchbooks, his constant companions as he explores how the effects of light, scale, and structure can express the spirit of a place. During two eight week sessions as professor for the Tulane School of Architecture Rome Program, he found himself following in the footsteps of all those who have gone to Rome and been transformed; the drawings compiled as he moved about the city on his folding bike and the explanatory notes written later in a time of reflection pay tribute to that heritage with perception and wit. The book is both a souvenir for those who love Rome and an excursion for those who love drawing. In both English and Italian.</p>

Roma Osservata (English and Italian Edition)

Tulane University School of Architecture

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New Orleans Observed: Drawings and Observations of America's Most Foreign City

Roma Osservata (English and Italian Edition)