But the decisions taken, the lines laid out, were all dictated on the spot by the lie of the land, not by drawings.
At the same time that Mr. Zeckendorf was buying land and commissioning futuristic drawings, the new United Nations was casting about for a headquarters site somewhere in the United States.
Focusing largely on drawings and land art projects made between 1968 and 2011, the exhibition includes more than 50 sculptural assemblages, photographs and works on paper.
The Sylvester Stallone film of 1995 used 31 vehicles, but they gave up on their own artwork sketches as to how they should look and instead used concept drawings which Land Rover themselves drew up.
He, too, is smitten by the place, but he focuses on rendering its factual here-and-nowness -- piled-up rocks, tangles of trees, deep woods and the general lay of the land -- in meticulous drawings and etchings.
The thin lines are more consistent with drawings on land while the thicker lines denote wave patterns in the sea.
For his drawing series "A Land Reform," Restrepo creates three massive drawings, each containing a deranged map of cartoons, newspaper clippings, red hoses that resemble spurting veins and that wonderfully sickening shade of pink.
Forty-one communities participated in mapping their lands, boundaries, vegetation, rivers, land use, and more through drawings overlaid on geographical maps.
Land painted in fine black drawings has been overpainted in green; e Colour image derived from the spectral image cube and f 880 nm NIR image of 'Area 35' on the Selden map in Fig. 1 near Banda in the Banda sea in Indonesia.
In Provence, she painted still lifes and land scapes, and made some detailed drawings of the countryside, its trees and lanes and vines, its houses and its hills.
