Archive for category architecture

Some people know that I went to school for architecture. Above is one of my drawings. It is a process drawing for a library and residence for scientist types. It was done on paper that had copies of these textural experiments that I was making to try and invent a new surface. It was an attempt to get into the mode of invention and exploration that my subjects might be involved in. My drawings were often criticized for their lack of readability. I struggled with this throughout my education. I found it hard to feel the necessity to produce the standard architectural drawings, so instead I did expolorative drawings that would teach me about specific things that I wanted to find out about. This always came back at me during crit time. “What are we looking at here?” people would ask. I would go into a lengthy explanation about what I had done. This explanation didn’t help much. The mess of lines that I would produce only had meaning to me. How could anyone come in blind and see anything in a 2 second glance. Compare that with the hours and hours that I had spent engrossed in that drawing. I don’t have an answer to this problem. The end. (click images to enlarge)

the same building as prevoius page
the red lines designate library space and the blue lines designate the residential living space.