The Architect's Eye Albert E. Flanagan moved through the world with the precision of a draftsman. Before he was known for the quietude of his etchings, he was a student of structure, graduating from Columbia University’s School of Architecture in 1910. This training left a mark on how he saw the city. He spent time working at the firm McKim, Mead & White, a place where the lines of buildings were carefully considered. Even when he turned his attention to the more fluid textures of watercolor and printmaking, that sense of spatial arrangement remained. He understood how a skyline or a waterfro…