Architects Sketches: Dialogue and Design

153 Pages·2008·8.45 MB·English

by  Kendra Schank Smith

ARCHITECTS ’ SKETCHES
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ARCHITECTS ’

SKETCHES
DIALOGUE AND DESIGN
KENDRA SCHANK SMITH
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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