Hi Folks

When you hand us your portfolios this tuesday- please include a print out of your blog so far!

A good exhibition

Now you are all drawing furiously- we recommend the present exhibition (free) at the Architectural Association (36 Bedford Sq- behind Centre Point Bus No1 from London Rd). The exhibition shows hand drawn work from the sixties and seventies, and as well as tantalizing you with architectural potentials, shows drawings done by mere mortals just like you.

Thursday 12th

Hi Everybody. 

We are anxious you complete and pin-up your 'As Existing' drawings - done on layout paper to scale without showing dimensions (the scale shows dimensions!)- this Thursday.

You need these drawings before you begin design investigations on paper.

Bring your project in tomorrow

Hi Everybody. I know it's short notice but we think we will do a short disco tomorrow. That would allow us some more time to look at your project progress. Therefore, please bring your 'drawings as existing'/'project ideas' in tomorrow.

 

Session 3rd November

This is the 'Gardeners House' by K. F. Shinkel in Potsdam. The Prince liked to relax with his friends (and the gardeners) in this complex arrangement of almost vernacular buildings (hence showing his sophistication- ref: Jamie Oliver) pergolas and landscape. The main axis runs horizontally through the landscape and the tiny bathhouse-symbolic of course of the importance and control of water. 
This is the Neoclassical painting by Claude 'Man being attacked by a snake'. It metaphorically illustrates the relationship between terror and distance, with the 'safety' or 'civilization' of architecture in the distance. 

Session Tuesday 27th Oct

We are all going out on a visit to a site in London, making use of the good weather we hope.

Please make sure you arrive at the studio on time in the morning, and be equipped with cameras, sketchbooks, pencils, some kind of measuring equipment (a 3m tape?) money enough for underground to Hampstead, subsistence etc and brains.

In the meantime we hope you have equipped yourself with the basic orthographic drawing equipment for use when you get home, basically:

drawing board (in production)

set square

clutch pencil and sharpener (or other)

architects scale rule

pad of layout paper

sheet of graph paper and acetate for use with your drawing board

masking tape

Session Tuesday 20th Oct

Tomorrow we're going to talk about drawing. I shall be talking about sketching because I was never very good at orthographic drawing. I shall also be looking back a while to '84, when I spent three months on a Moto Guzzi 500 traveling Europe and compiled a sketchbook of what I did. Twenty five years on I'll show you the drawings for the first time.

This picture is of me a little earlier- growing up with a Honda 250 G5.