Schweizerische Bauzeitung
Schweizerische Bauzeitung is an 1883 Zürich engineering and architecture journal issued by the Swiss engineers' and architects' society and the ETH Zürich alumni association, aimed at the building profession. Its plates are technical drawings: a long building section with a hall and trusses, an elevation and section of a villa with scale notes in metres, a dimensioned tram rail and track cross-section, and a detailed mechanical turntable or switching apparatus. A designer could draw on the crisp, measured line work, hatching and labelled scale drawings as a model for architectural diagrams and technical infographics.
