La Construction moderne
La Construction moderne is an 1885 Paris architectural and building periodical, printed by F. Levé and collected by the Getty Research Institute, aimed at architects and builders. Its pictures are measured technical drawings in black line: a courtyard facade elevation with detail sections, a cutaway of a multi-storey apartment block with a stair well and balconies, a cross-section of a lift or hoist mechanism with its cable drum, and a sectioned timber shed with plans and a scale bar, useful to a designer for structural line work, hatched sections and architectural diagram layouts.
