Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

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4.5
The widely set vanishing points
of this sketch of Charles Rennie
Mackintosh’s Hill House near
Glasgow allow the rambling
composition to be included
on a single sheet.


4.6
Two-point perspective focuses
attention upon objects in space
rather than on the space around
buildings. Here in Blythswood
Square in central Glasgow the
composition retains its original
arrangement.


4.7
The use of diagonals and
repeating bays allows the
complex façade of Blythswood
Square to be set down fairly
accurately. The left- and right-
hand vanishing points are off
the page. Notice how the angle
X° remains the same for the
house’s subdivisions.


Perspective 41
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