EM – We are familiar with images of impressive and monumental construction designs through AutoCAD software. The detailed parameters, the horizontal and vertical drawings, the full 2D and 3D simulation have only just begun to emerge from the early 80s of the twentieth century. But before there was the technology to make “exporting” easier after the idea is initialized, how did the architects work?
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Vietnam Architecture Day (April 27, 1948 – April 27, 2023), let’s admire the photos showing the “labor beauty” of the architects of the time when there is no technology.
AutoCAD is CAD application software for drawing (creating) technical drawings using 2D vectors or 3D surfaces, developed by Autodesk Corporation. With the first version released in late 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first technical drawing programs to run on personal computers, especially IBM computers. This is also a turning point of engineering and architecture people. So the 1970s and earlier, they worked as hard as show in below photos
Precious documentary pictures of an era of human labor are honored above all. Today, tools make it easier for architects and engineers to design buildings, but the value of their effort and talent is still valid because the works are artistic and practical and are being applied all over the world.
Vietnamese architecture has also reached far around the world with many great works and won major design awards. Elevator Magazine would like to thank the architects and all those working in the architecture industry, wish the Vietnamese architecture industry more and more develop with creative steps and great applications, and the elevator is a part of it!
Before AutoCAD, architects had to stand drawing for many hours on white sheets like this, probably very tired.
Otherwise, they would sit and draw on more professional desks, but whether standing or sitting, this is probably the same as IT engineers writing commands on paper?
All the tools they have are pencils, rulers, compasses, blank paper, etc.
Images of labor beauty like these may seem strange now, but it used to happen as a matter of fact.
The studios are filled with paper
Not only standing, sitting, but engineers at that time also had to… lie on the ground like this
But it’s not because of the rudimentary tools that those drawings are of poor quality!
Nhìn khá giống một cuộc thi đại học của thí sinh ngành mỹ thuật, nhưng đó lại là những kỹ sư và kiến trúc sư tài năng một thời.
