Jerwood Prize Exhibition 14 September- 24 October

Selected from original drawings, the Jerwood Drawing Prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice. The exhibition provides a platform to showcase the work of UK-based drawing practitioners, from student to established, and as a project helps to define a wider understanding of the role and value of drawing in creative practice.

 

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Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN

Even more sectional perspectives

Marianne Calvelo, University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning

by Antony Hogger

by Ed Crooks

by Victor Hugo Azevedo

'3 Standard Stoppages' by Marcel Duchamp, 1913

"In 1964 Duchamp explained: 'This experiment was made in 1913 to imprison and preserve forms obtained through chance, through my chance. At the same time, the unit of length, one meter, was changed from a straight line to a curved line without actually losing its identity [as] the meter, and yet casting a pataphysical doubt on the concept of a straight edge as being the shortest route from one point to another.' (Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine, eds., Marcel Duchamp, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, pp.273-4.) 

Duchamp used each wooden template three times in mapping the diagrammatic painting Network of Stoppages, 1914 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)."

more at the tate modern.

Steven Holl: Light in the Kiasma Museum

An Excerpt from Steven Holl: The Body in Space where Holl describes the strategy for lighting the interior of the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki Finland; the client explaining her reaction to his watercolours. (One shown below.)

Drawings by Daniel Castor

Castor "created twenty-two drawings of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange that, like x-ray photographs, enable us to look through the building's walls into its inner spaces in a way that one could neither achieve by means of photography nor by viewing the building in person."

The drawings are "magnificently beautiful," the Getty's guide opines. By "gradually peeling away more and more of the exterior wall, like an archaeologist digging through centuries of rubble... Castor shows that the facade is no more than a thin layer around a circulatory space circumscribing the main exchange halls."

From BLDGBLOG.

Alvar Aalto Viipuri Library Lecture Hall

Alvar Aalto's section of the lecture hall in the Viipuri Library which worked out the trajectory of  sound.

more here.

Drawings by Perry Kulper

Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Wai says "Each of Perry Kulper’s architectural drawings is a cosmos of information and possibilities that resist the banal and simplistic reductionism so typical of contemporary architectural representation. Series after series, his drawings display objects as background, and background as object in a constant visual journey of an architecture that doesn’t settle and always evolves: an architecture of ideas."

more at archimorph.

"All Singing, All Dancing Drawings"

Mike Guy has contributed a few very nice (perspectival and elevational) section drawings for your reference.  They were done by architecture students in the UK over the past few years.

Notations 21 Project

François Girardin stopped by the Second Year pin-up yesterday and gave a wonderful reference for any student attempting to use graphics and notation to describe sounds: Notation 21.




Drawing inspiration from John Cages Notations, Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. These spectacularly beautiful and fascinatingly creative visual pieces not only make for exciting music, but inspiring visual art as well. Every score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, which explain how the music manifested visually. Included in this anthology are famous composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Yuji Takahashi and Kathleen St. John, as well as lesser-known but no less important composers whose compositions are also visually astounding and important. Notations 21 coincides with an exhibit and concert series that will open at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City and then move across the globe. In the spirit of honoring John Cages book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of this books sales will be donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.



There is also an online resource found at http://notations21.net/. If you click on 'Scores' you can find examples of musical notation generated by the participants.

See the DS04 blog for more.  (Thanks, François!)

Yokohama Apartments by ON design partners

Yokohama apartment is a residential complex consisting of semi public courtyard canopied by four one-room units for young artists. The semi public courtyard is a place for exhibition and work. 

photos © Koichi Torimura

more at archdaily

Alex Cox's references

A critic on the panel of the recent Level 5 Final Crit, Alex Cox, sent along some references that he thought would be helpful.

For those with pendant-like instalations relating to the hanging easels (at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, current site for the Level 5 project),

London Stock Exchange installation:

For those interested in the 'behind the scenes' areas of theatres,

The Marx Brothers A Night At The Opera (Final Scene):

For those interested in vertical movement/habitation,

Maison Bordeaux lift:

For those interested in preservation of the existing and subtle interventions,

Neues Museum, Berlin:

For those interested in dramatic natural lighting,

Stanley Kubricks Barry Lyndon:

For those interested in the drama of the old theatre:  an image that captures the feeling of a theater opening night in a rainy Rotterdam, 

Bolles & Wilson, New Luxor Theatre (Image by them):

Thanks, Alex!

Japanese Architect Kumiko Inui on Sketching

Steven Holl: Proposal for Institute for Contemporary Art

Sited at the edge of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, Virginia, the new Institute for Contemporary Art will link the University with the surrounding community.  The new Institute for Contemporary Art is organized in four galleries, each with a different character. Flexibility allows for four separate exhibitions, one continuous exhibition, or combinations. Galleries can be closed for installations without affecting the circulation to the others. 

For plans, sections, and renderings of the proposed project visit archdaily.

A Few More Sectional Perspectives

LTL Architects

Art House Museum

Austin, Texas

2009

Knitting: Water - Land - Building - City

2007

Brent Martin and Sohyun Sung - Yale

Agua:Infrastructure as Landscape Identity

2008

Shanti Levy and Elizabeth Hoogheem - University of Virginia 

Christopher Ludwig

via Krobarch

Hospital: House of Hope, Houses of Birth, Houses of No Return

Venice, Italy

1979

Raimund Abraham

All the above found here.

Sectional Perspectives by LTL Architects

more about LTL at their website.

Mixing the Ingredients: A Lecture by Peter Cook

For those of your struggling to craft your plans, take 65 minutes to watch this lecture by Peter Cook.  He describes the different approaches to designing in plan taken by many notable modern and contemporary architects.  

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk//VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1360

Large Scale Wrappings: Christo and Jeane-Claude

Christo and Jeane-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Although their work is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale, the artists have repeatedly denied that their projects contain any deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact. The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to create works of art or joy and beauty and to create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes. Art critic David Bourdon has described Christo's wrappings as a "revelation through concealment."

For the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris, 40,000 m2 of sand-colored polyamide fabric was needed. The wrapping began on 25 August 1985 and was completed on 22 September. In the next two weeks over three million people visited the project.

wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin,1995

The drawing/collages they make to illustrate their projects (which can take years to gather funds and support for) are necessarily gorgeous and effective in presenting their ambitious ideas.  

And of course these larger scale works started with kernels of smaller ideas:

There are many more interesting projects to be found at:


http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/

Sketchbooks: Smout and Allen

Mark Smout and Laura Allen are Senior Lecturers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.  They say: 

"Our work takes two routes, architectural competitions, where the particular rigour of the competition brief, site and program provide the basis for new investigations and, conceptual design projects which test out the agenda and methodology of the design research practice. We focus on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape."

(from http://www.smoutallen.com/)

Images of some of their sketchbook pages:

Above: Sketchbook pages, Prototypes for an Envirographic Architecture: Lanzanrote

Source: PETER COOK: The London Eight at Lebbeus Woods BLOG

Above: more pages from Smout and Allen sketchbooks. Source:  bldngblog.