Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
photographer, a drawing permits the artist to exercise a discerning eye, adding or subtracting detail to the benefit of the sket ...
6.3 By placing the ‘subject’ of the sketch (which here depicts the Merchant City, Glasgow) near the top of the drawing, the spac ...
the 1960s, with a rough-textured concrete façade (as on the South Bank in London), would lend itself to a charcoal or a pencil d ...
6.6 The Beacon Hill area of Boston, Massachusetts, contains fine 19th-century houses and squares. Here railings and a fire hydra ...
everything, and to select the focus of attention at the outset is vital. This should prevent you from over-working the subject a ...
6.9 a and b These studies of a medieval townhouse in Gloucester by Nick Hirst are finely composed on the page. Notice how the se ...
be either landscape (horizontal) or portrait (vertical) in layout, depending upon whether a panorama or, for instance, a street ...
6.10 Landscape often provides a better opportunity to compose a drawing than townscape. The patterns in this Tuscan landscape ar ...
Chapter 7 The importance of practice The co-ordination of hand and eye is a necessary starting point for freehand drawing. It is ...
7.2 Edward May’s sketch of candleholders is the type of subject which lends itself to a practice exercise. May’s facility for dr ...
7.4 This sketch (dated 1905) by Mackintosh of a hall at Cley in Norfolk edits out features in an attempt to interpret rather tha ...
7.5 A degree of abstraction helps when rendering difficult subjects, as in this sketch made near Dubrovnik. 7.6 Derelict industr ...
Chapter 8 From sketch to plan making and documentary investigation Sketching may on occasion be supplemented by drawing quick pl ...
8.1 Flockerton Mill, Douglas, in Scotland, is typical of early industrial architecture. The sketch shows the general arrangement ...
8.3 This sketch, based upon field notes and town plans, shows the proportional system employed at the Baroque Piazza San Carlo i ...
8.4 Figure-ground drawings prepared from a good map can show the relationship between the solids (buildings) and voids (spaces) ...
8.5 This plan sketch by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw for the Berlin Stock Exchange seeks to show how the rhythms of construction and th ...
8.6 a, b and c These studies of Gravesend in Kent by Richard Reid move from sketchbook drawings to more analytical explorations ...
Local libraries will probably contain documentary records about the date of the subject, or other information that can enhance y ...
8.7 The investigation of urban landmarks in Manchester forms a starting point for Sir Terry Farrell’s Green Building (see Chapte ...
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