Publisher's Synopsis
Creative Commons Architecture - Historic Cross Sections Volume II is a collected work of historical architectural cutaways, drawings, and plans. Toyotomi Yukimura collected the included drawings and painstakingly restored and modified them for inclusion in this second volume of his Creative Commons Architecture series.
Cutaway views of buildings became popular during the Renaissance. Some of the earliest known cutaway drawings can be found in Marino Taccola's fifteenth-century notebooks. By the sixteenth century, Georgius Agricola began using cutaway drawings to illustrate underground mining operations in his definitive treatise on mining called De Re Metallica. The term 'cutaway drawing' first emerged in the nineteenth century but exploded in popularity in the 1930s.
Each of the drawings edited and restored by Toyotomi for inclusion in this book was originally in the public domain prior to his transformations. If you wish to use them in a commercial or for-profit project you will need to obtain permission as they are all protected by copyright. If you wish to use them in your own noncommercial project Toyotomi offers them under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC - https: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ allowing you to use them as long as you credit Toyotomi and include a link to his website www.toyotomiyukimura.com.
