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ARCHITECTS ’ SKETCHES This page intentionally left blank ARCHITECTS ’ SKETCHES DIALOGUE AND DESIGN KENDRA SCHANK SMITH AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Architectural Architectural Press is an imprint of Elsevier Press Architectural Press is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA First published 2008 Copyright © 2008 Kendra Schank Smith. All rights reserved The right of Kendra Schank Smith to be identifi ed as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier ’ s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (+44) (0) 1865 853333; email: [email protected]. Alternatively you can submit your request online by visiting the Elsevier website at http://elsevier.com/locate/permissions , and selecting O btaining permission to use Elsevier material Notice No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title is available from the Library of Congress ISBN: 978-0-7506-8226-8 For information on all Architectural Press publications visit our website at www.architecturalpress.com Typeset by Charon Tec Ltd (A Macmillan Company), Chennai, India www.charontec.com Printed and bound in Slovenia 08 09 10 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS List of illustrations vii Acknowledgements xiii Chapter 1 Introduction and the sketch 1 Architectural sketches and a comparison to dialogue 2 Methodology 7 The nature of sketches 11 Visual perception as it pertains to architectural sketches 14 How architects use sketches 18 Bibliography 24 Chapter 2 Play, quickness and F estina Lente 26 Illusion and allusion 27 A knowledge gained 32 Play at work 33 Quickness and Festina Lente 35 Bibliography 42 Chapter 3 Memory, imagination and fantasy 43 Memory 43 Imagination 57 Fantasy 64 Bibliography 70 Chapter 4 Caricature as a mode of transformation 72 H istory of caricature 73 D efi nition of caricature 75 C aricature evident in architectural sketches 78 B ibliography 101 Chapter 5 The grotesque sketch 103 History of the grotesque 104 v Grotesque sketches 108 Bibliography 121 Chapter 6 Observation/compendium and l ikeness 123 Digital sketches 127 Likeness and the marginal 130 Conclusion 133 Bibliography 133 Index 135 vi LIST OF ILLUSTR ATIONS Figure 1.1 Triumphal Arch, Tripoli © Stapleton Collection, UK/Bridgeman Art Library Figure 1.2 Lorcan O ’ Herlihy; Idea sketch of unfolding light well in a structure LOHA Lorcan O ’ Herlihy Architects Figure 1.3 Steven Holl; Cactus Towers, Live Work Lofts Courtesy Steven Holl Figure 1.4 Antoine Predock; Staglieno Cemetery, Genova, Italy, 1988 Antoine Predock Architect PC Figure 1.5 Morten Schmidt; Extension of the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen © schmidt hammer lassen Figure 1.6 Merrill Elam; Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, North Elevation Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Figure 1.7 Merrill Elam; Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, South Elevation Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Figure 1.8 Merrill Elam; Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, West Elevation Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Figure 1.9 Merrill Elam; Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, East Elevation Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Figure 2.1 Michel de Klerk; Apartment Block 2, Spaarndammer-plantsoen, Amsterdam, 1914–16 Netherlands Architecture Institute Figure 2.2 Eric A. Kahn; Urban Fabric: Mexico City (D.F.) 2003 Central Offi ce of Architecture vii Figure 2.3 Reima Pietilä; Dipoli Student Assembly Building, Ontaniemi, Espoo Museum of Finnish Architecture Figure 2.4 Francesco Borromini; Gateway for S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Albertina Museum, Vienna, AZ Rom 159a Figure 2.5 Jun Itami; Stone House 1982 ( in Drawings by Contemporary Japanese Architects ) Jun Itami Architect A Research Institute Figure 2.6 Floris Alkemade; Zeche Zollverein Masterplan, 2008, Offi ce for Metropolitan Architecture © OMA/Rem Koolhaas Figure 2.7 Robert Venturi; House in Northern Delaware Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. Figure 2.8 Lorcan O ’ Herlihy; Idea sketch for Landmark Tower/U2 studio in Dublin, Ireland LOH Lorcan O ’ Herlihy Architect Figure 2.9 Yoshio Taniguchi; Seishun Shirakaba Art Museum 1982 (in Drawings by Contemporary Japanese Architects ) Figure 3.1 Pentti Karoeja; Westend Iuonnoskirja Day Nursery Ark-house Architects Figure 3.2 Antoine Predock; Royal Palace Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000 Antoine Predock Architect PC Figure 3.3 Antoine Predock; Chenonceaux, France 1982 Antoine Predock Architect PC Figure 3.4 Steven Holl; Knut Hamsun Museum Courtesy Steven Holl Figure 3.5 Renzo Piano; London Bridge Tower Renzo Piano Building Workshop s.r.l. Figure 3.6 Erich Mendelsohn; Library and Offi ce Building for Salmon Schocken MOMA 96.2000 © Art Resource Figure 3.7 Michael Rotondi; idea-gram RoTo Architects, Inc. Michael Rotondi Figure 3.8 Michelangelo Buonarroti; Sketches of columns and faces © British Museum, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library Figure 3.9 Reima Peitilä; Kaleva Church, Tampere Museum of Finnish Architecture viii Figure 3.10 Carlo Scarpa; Pianta dell ’ area di esposizione della statua di Cangrande; studi per il supporto della statua esquestre in un’ ipotesi a colonne, n° inv. 31587 recto Archivio Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona Figure 3.11 Ieoh Ming Pei; East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pei Cobb Freed Partners Figure 3.12 Mayumi Miyawaki; Sketch of Yokoo Residence, 1979 Drawings by Contemporary Japanese Architects Figure 3.13 Cesar Pelli; Petronas Towers Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Figure 3.14 Y. Tanguy, A. Breton, M. Duhamel, M. Morise; Exquisite Corpse, 1934 © Private Collection/Peter Willi/The Bridgeman Art Library Figure 3.15 Sir Norman Foster; Norman Foster Concept Sketch Foster + Partners Figure 3.16 Robert Venturi; Gordon Wu Hall Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. Figure 4.1 Eric A. Kahn; Cathedrals: Notre Dame, Paris 2004 Central Offi ce of Architecture Figure 4.2 Gianlorenzo Bernini; A caricature of a Cardinal in bed, ART 321510 © Art Resource Figure 4.3 Carlo Scarpa; Schizzi vari per un allestimento, n ° inv. 32168 recto Archivio Museo de Castelvecchio, Verona Figure 4.4 Jørn Utzon; Bagsvaerd Community Church Utzon Associates Architects Figure 4.5 Leonardo da Vinci; Study of Heads, ALI 161559 © Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy/Alinari/ The Bridgeman Art Library Figure 4.6 Santiago Calatrava, Human/Structure Sketches Santiago Calatrava LLC Figure 4.7 Rafael Viñoly; Van Andel Institute project sketch Rafael Viñoly Architects, PC Figure 4.8 Michael Rotondi; Architecture and Art Building at Prairie View A & M University RoTo Architects, Inc., Michael Rotondi Figure 4.9 Denise Scott Brown; Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Princeton University Venturi, Scott Brown Architects, Inc. ix

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Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into the relationsh
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