A couple of these actually look like Frank Lloyd Wright pieces (I'm thinking of the "push pin" building, especially). And I would totally live in the suburban split level of the future.

Um, the "spaceship" is pretty clearly a flying boat (note the propellers in the upper right) albeit one that is sitting pretty high in the water.

@TruculentandUnreliable: The "push pin" building (Johnson Wax Building) and the split-level (very Falling Water). Both from the 1930's.

yeah alot of these were built.... Was this guy just making drawings of other people's work? The "mysterious mall" is the Lever House in New York by SOM. And like 92buicklesabre said, that's a Phillip Johnson building and a Frank Lloyd Wright Building. I would be surprised if some of the other pictures were of other people's work too!

I wouldn't be surprised**

@blazedshaggy: Oh! The "mysterious mall" looked familiar, but I didn't make the connection.

@blazedshaggy: Oh man, of course it is. I was in the same boat as TruculentandUnreliable.

AutoCAD doesn't do that shit.
/nitpick

@TheSchlongestYard: I was thinking the same thing, but I didn't want to nitpick...thanks for doing it for me.

Uh... he's an architectural renderer... probably almost everything he does is "someone else's work" unless it's pure fantasy work of his own.

He would have been retained by an architect to interpret a building's technical drawings into a realistic rendering placed in context. These drawings would be used to sell the concept to a property owner or used to build interest for tenants in the case of commercial properties.

This is a sadly dying art form.

@gotsmart: No, we still do it. I, along with many others I know, do renderings for Architecture firms all the time. I'm working on a few right now. The only thing that is different is that the "style" of the images are alot more colorful. Don't get me wrong, those images are quite beautiful and I would hang quite a few of those in my house, but clients today are looking for the "cheery, shiny" building that they can make a quick buck off of. So until the more formal, gothic style and form of buildings is popular again, we must do what we can to keep the client and the inhabitants happy.

@TheSchlongestYard:
no reason why you can't export to iges or step from autocad and render it in something else...
/nitpick

@blazedshaggy:
you using vectorworks or what?

I like this stuff.

'kinda reminds me a bit of the works of Arthur Radebaugh.

@92BuickLeSabre:
Yeah. When I first saw the "future suburb" image I was like, "isn't that Fallingwater?" Then I saw the "pushpins" and instantly knew it was the Johnson Wax building.

I really hope that the original poster of this material understood what these images really were. Hopefully the image "titles" used on this blog were just for a facetious laugh, or due to a lack of familiarity with the source material.

I can see where This Island Earth got some of it's ideas from.

@Shenanigans Was Taken: I actually didn't recognize the FLW buildings, so thanks for letting us know. I thought the suburb looked like Fallingwater, but then I thought perhaps it was kind of a takeoff or embellishment. Is the Hippodrome real? I mean, is there a Hippodrome somewhere out there that Ferriss drew as it was being built? I want to see it!