Color Pencil Drawings
Color pencil drawings are made with pencils with colored cores made from pigmented wax or other compound materials. Different color pencil brands used in architectural drawings vary by the draftsperson’s choice of rendering technique. Prismacolor, primarily used in these drawings, is generally used for softer media renderings while Staedtler is used for hard-line drawings.
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elevations
House on the Island of Djerba; Façade 1 [Exterior elevation, signed by Jorge Silvetti] (electrostatic copy with graphite pencil and prismacolor on vellum; 14″ x 18″)
House on the Island of Djerba; Façade 2 [Exterior elevation, signed by Jorge Silvetti] (electrostatic copy with graphite pencil and prismacolor on vellum; 14″ x 18″)
House on the Island of Djerba; Façade 3 [Exterior elevation, signed by Jorge Silvetti] (electrostatic copy with graphite pencil and prismacolor on vellum; 14″ x 18″)
House on the Island of Djerba; Façade 4 [Exterior elevation, signed by Jorge Silvetti] (electrostatic copy with graphite pencil and prismacolor on vellum; 14″ x 18″)
Production of Meaning in Architecture; Shaded Elevation (sepia diazotype with prismacolor and letraset on brown paper mounted on 2-ply matboard; 40″ x 28″)
Steps of Providence; Memorial Hall Facade [Exterior color shaded perspective] (sepia diazotype with prismacolor on vellum; 20″ x 22″)
Steps of Providence; Exterior Shaded Elevation (cyandiazotype with prismacolor pencil on vellum with some water damage; 22″ x 47″)
exterior perspectives
House on the Island of Djerba; Exterior shaded perspective of facade 1 (black prismacolor on strathmore, 9″ x 9″)
House on the Island of Djerba; Exterior shaded perspective of facade 2 (black prismacolor on strathmore, 9″ x 9″)
House on the Island of Djerba; Exterior shaded perspective of facade 3 (black prismacolor on strathmore, 9″ x 9″)
House on the Island of Djerba; Exterior shaded perspective of facade 4 (black prismacolor on strathmore, 9″ x 9″)
interior perspectives
House on the Island of Djerba; Interior Perspective (black prismacolor on heavy strathmore; 20″ x 22″)
House in Pergusa; Perspective (black ink and prismacolor on paper; 18″ x 23 1/2″)
House in Pergusa; Perspective 2 (black ink and prismacolor on paper; 13 1/2″ x 20 1/2″)
House in Pergusa; Interior Perspective 3 (graphite pencil and prismacolor on vellum; 24″ x 34″)
axonometrics
The Steps of Providence; Woods-Gerry Steps [Birdseye color shaded axonometric] (sepia diazotype with prismacolor and letraset on vellum; 22″ x 21″)
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The Rodolfo Machado & Jorge Silvetti Collection
This site was made possible thanks to the support of Jorge Silvetti, Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture, Emeritus and Ann Whiteside, Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Services at the Frances Loeb Library.
Developed in collaboration with Ines Zalduendo, Special Collections Curator at the Frances Loeb Library, M.Arch ’95 and Ashleigh Brady, Archival Collections Website Editor, M.Arch ’26.
Digital scans in collaboration with by Harvard Library Imaging Services, Alix Reiskind, Associate Librarian, Research and Teaching at the Frances Loeb Library.