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This drawing set was completed as part of research for the forthcoming book 'Form Follows Fuel', written by Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban with myself providing research support, carrying out calculations and illustrating. The research aimed to calculate the embodied energy within fifteen buildings throughout history, from the Great Pyramid to the Seagram Building, to provide a comparative analysis of energy used in construction in relation to fuel sources available. Digital models were created based on historical and measured information of these buildings from which material volumes were calculated to enable embodied energy to be derived. The drawing set was then extracted and presented from these models to illustrate the book in 'plates'. The artwork contains eighteen of these 'plates' complied together over two A1 sheets demonstrating the rigour, consistency and variety inherent in the research approach. The research aims to provide quantifiable embodied energy figures against historic buildings providing comparative analysis. The process of measuring, modelling and drawing of each building was crucial to this and shows the importance architectural drawing is in this new field of architectural history.