Tag: sketch
Mario Sironi
27 March 2017
Mario Sironi27 March 2017
Politics as a Pretext for Making Mario Sironi compromised and traumatised in equal parts by his association with Italian Fascism, was known primarily as a painter and propagandist. He worked with and can be compared to Giuseppe Terragni, Mussolini’s most faithful architect, in his devotion to art as an ideological… Read More
Scott and La Pietra
17 March 2017
Scott and La Pietra17 March 2017
In this drawing of his project for a house for a sculptor, Ugo La Pietra tries to criticise the boxiness of the standard house and the context of the city. Working to synthesise the forms and disciplines of art and architecture, he draws an enveloping free-form volume on pillars. This… Read More
House II
17 March 2017
Nigel Coates
10 March 2017
Nigel Coates10 March 2017
Executed after it opened, this drawing captures the intended vibrancy of one of my first built projects, a café tacked onto the front of a department store in downtown Shibuya. The architectural bricolage of the built space translated well into the mixed media technique of splurged acrylic paint, caked-on oil… Read More
Ellis: James Gowan
2 March 2017
Ellis: James Gowan2 March 2017
While typically, the architect employs the sketchbook as a raft by which to navigate the relentless flow of day-to-day practice, those that James Gowan assembled, across the course of his long professional life, served as a more elevated and leisurely mode of transport. Questions that he was addressing in the… Read More
Perry Kulper
14 February 2017
Perry Kulper14 February 2017
‘Spatial Blooms’ and Digital Expectations Within the currently dominant visual culture, architectural drawing is persistently called to compete with a wide range of digital modes of visualisation, as well as fabrication, that tend towards simulation rather than representation. Is architectural drawing rendered redundant in this proliferation of digital renderings? And,… Read More
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten
9 February 2017
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten9 February 2017
– Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan
Hard lead pencils are unforgiving and require concentration, precision and humility when drawing with them. By using a hard lead the painterly effect associated with soft pencil sketches is avoided, with their tolerance to imprecision and visual sloppiness. Sketching with a hard lead requires focus. The joy of drawing a… Read More
Dorrian: Michael Webb
1 February 2017
Dorrian: Michael Webb1 February 2017
In his drawings for the Sin Centre, Michael Webb constantly returns to the parts of the project that are to do with movement – the undulant mechanical escalators and the complex vehicle system through which cars enter and flow through the building on ramps that loop around, cross over and… Read More
William Mann
31 January 2017
William Mann31 January 2017
Waiting Women ‘What’s it like?’: the experience of being there in a building is fundamental. That’s why we draw a lot in perspective (mostly eyeballed rather than constructed), because it offers the closest approximation to being there. But… moving through an urban environment formed by many buildings, reading signs, interpreting… Read More
Caruso St John Architects
18 January 2017
Caruso St John Architects18 January 2017
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Peter Myers
5 December 2016
Peter Myers5 December 2016
It is a truism that aggressive building contractors treat architectural drawings with contempt; McAlpine’s were no exception and it being my temporary responsibility in 1969 to negotiate a procedure of actually constructing the visible fair faced in-situ concrete of this vast structure, I arrived at The Brunswick’s site office ready for a… Read More
Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings
23 November 2016
Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings23 November 2016
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The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee
9 November 2016
The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee9 November 2016
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Paul Robbrecht
2 November 2016
Paul Robbrecht2 November 2016
Watercolour is not the traditional medium one associates with architectural plans, particularly those that are realised in built form. I believe this is what caught my eye while searching for a drawing by Walter Pichler and instead discovered a portfolio of drawings by Paul Robbrecht. Aue Paviljoenen project B depicts… Read More
The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective
24 October 2016
The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective24 October 2016
What is compelling about the sketches of Mies van der Rohe is their reliance on a pictorial composition that actively distorts perspectival conventions. This type of distortion is evident consistently across his more finished presentations drawings as well as his sketches. In using perspective as his main visualising tool Mies… Read More
Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds
7 October 2016
Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds7 October 2016
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Peter Salter
4 October 2016
Peter Salter4 October 2016
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Review: Found in Translation
21 August 2016
Review: Found in Translation21 August 2016
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Cedric Price: Bathat
8 August 2016
Cedric Price: Bathat8 August 2016
Swiftly drawn in soft orange-red crayon, four upright fingers sit astride a flying platform. We instantly recognise the volume and mass of Battersea Power Station; but the weight has vanished with the walls. The uplift is palpable: thin red pen lines inscribe the geometry of the stripped back steels, but… Read More
Michael Graves
7 August 2016
Michael Graves7 August 2016
When they were made and for a long while afterwards the drawings of Michael Graves were influential for a generation of American, Canadian and British architecture students who coveted their fine papers, delicate colouring techniques and characterful hand-drawn lines in pencil and ink. These all seemed so appropriate to the… Read More
Seven Farmyards
22 April 2016
Seven Farmyards22 April 2016
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the Birth of the Column
7 April 2016
the Birth of the Column7 April 2016
You walk along the street with all its traffic and find yourself in front of the big archway. Through it you see the courtyard, which comes as a surprise. The scale is domestic rather than monumental, but the building’s façade – with its portico and columns, which are whiter than… Read More
GOWAN DMC (SB6)
28 March 2017
GOWAN DMC (SB6)28 March 2017
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