Writer: Gina Morrow

Reading Between the Lines: The Language of Structural Engineers

Reading Between the Lines: The Language of Structural Engineers

Gina Morrow

A version of the phrase ‘engineering drawing is a universal language of signs and symbols’ appears in countless engineering drawing textbooks starting in the early twentieth century and continues today. A particularly evocative iteration published in the 1960s states: ‘[Engineering drawing] is a universal language; for the reader may be… Read More