Maison de Roi at Grand Place, Brussels, Belgium.
January 2011
Notes and sketches of MVRDV’s Porter’s Lodges in Otterlo, The Netherlands. (I know these look like poorly drawn houses, but they’re actually well-observed! They really look that way 🙂
Interior notes and details from Herzog & De Meuron’s Caixa Forum. Madrid, Spain.
Herzog & De Meuron’s Caixa Forum in Madrid, Spain.
10 second challenge sketch of the Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank Gehry.
Interior details and observations from Gaudi’s Santa Coloma Chapel. Barcelona, Spain.
Antoni Gaudi’s unfinished Santa Coloma Chapel, near Barcelona, Spain.
Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Mila (“La Pedrera”). Barcelona, Spain.
Quick sketch of the Château de Fontainebleau. Didn’t have much time for this one because I was instructing others. Still happy with the result though!
Interior and detail sketches of the Parish Church of Santa Ana near Madrid, Spain.
Exterior of the Parish Church of Santa Ana near Madrid, Spain. Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Ana.
Tower in Cordoba, Spain.
Cathedral and church facades from across Spain and France (and London!). Here we have the Cathedral of Avila, Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulalia (Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia, Barcelona), Notre Dame, Laon Cathedral, Basilica of St Denis (Paris), Reims Cathedral, Abbey of Saint-Remi (Reims), and Westminster Abbey (London).
Views from the Maison La Roche by Le Corbusier; Paris, France.
Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) interior. Cologne, Germany.
Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) exterior. Cologne, Germany.
Sonneveld House by J.A. Brinkman. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
A view of Avila, Spain, from the surrounding countryside. Awesome medieval fortification wall surrounds this hill-city.
Alcazar de Segovia, Spain.
Villa Carre by Alvar Aalto, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France.
Another little tutorial page. This time, for 2 point perspective tricks. Basically, the idea is to draw lightly, and try to avoid the “diamond drawing”.
Last year, I taught sketching on the Knowlton School of Architecture’s European study abroad tour. This is a little how-to for 1 point perspective that I doodled up to help teach people the tricks of converting 3D objects to the 2D plane of the paper. A lot of people were having trouble with the technique; most often their drawings looked too “floaty”. This came in handy when I was explaining things.
Haus Schminke by Hans Scharoun; interior sketches and notes. Lobau, Germany.
Haus Schminke exterior by Hans Scharoun. Lobau, Germany.
3 Bridges, Joze Plecnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
A dramatic interior space of Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany. The floor was littered with thousands of cast-iron faces. In order to cross the room, you had to walk on the faces. With every step, they clang and bang together as if crying out.
Sketches and notes from Schloss Belvedere in Vienna, Austria. It was so hot outside, so I tried to stay as long as possible in the air conditioned foyer, which was held up by these atlas columns.
I was supposed to be sketching the interior of the Berlin Philharmonic by Hans Scharoun, but I was having a hard time at it, so I started drawing the orchestra. I’ve had a long time obsession with cellos…
Interior of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France.
Palladio facades; Villa Malcontenta, San Giorgio Maggiore, Villa Cornaro, and Villa Rotunda. Venice and the Veneto, Italy.
View from Il Redentore, Venice, Italy.
Kunsthalle Wien. Vienna, Austria
Certosa di Pavia. Pavia, Italia.
Campanile San Marco. Venice, Italy