La Construction moderne
La Construction moderne is an 1885 architectural and building trade periodical printed in Paris, compiled for French architects, builders and engineers. Its pictures are measured black-and-white line drawings: a site plan with hatched walls and annotated property boundaries, a mechanical hoist or lifting frame with dashed guide lines, a symmetrical public hall plan with coffered bays and columns, and a panelled door surround drawn to a graduated scale. A designer could borrow the crisp hatching, dimension lines and lettered callouts as a restrained technical drawing style.
