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The Architectural Plan as Map | Eric Miralles

October 11, 2012 by bg-martin

The Architectural Plan as Map by Eric Miralles “In all my recent work, I think I have been utterly focused on being involved with reality, in other words, always in the midst of contradictions, the difficulties, the misunderstandings, there in the thick of it… When I am asked what sort of architecture interests me, I realize I finally have an answer: ‘architecture that is capable of avoiding demagoguery‘. In other words, architecture that is capable of not hiding the complex reality it […]

Categories: Archilibs, Drafting, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, design, Drafting, drawing, Eric Miralles, ink, line, maps

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Where The Wild Things Are | Percy Weston

October 10, 2012 by bg-martin

Where The Wild Things Are | Percy Weston Project Description: Where The Wild Things Are imagines a new safari park, wilderness and leisure strip as essential social infrastructure linking Deptford in South-East London to Canary Wharf in Docklands. The strip is a conduit through the metropolis – a filter through which you travel to see the realities of the city in a new light. It juxtaposes the sublime and the ridiculous, until nothing seems more absurd than the goings on around […]

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, Drafting, drawing, elevation, ink, mix-media, Percy Weston, perspective, Royal College of Art, section, siteplan, sketch

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The Observation Station | Douglas Fenton

October 9, 2012 by bg-martin

The Architecture of Solitude: The Observation Station | Douglas Fenton

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, collage, Douglas Fenton, drawing, ink, mix-media

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SKETCHBOOKs | Ryan Panos

October 9, 2012 by bg-martin

UN Freeport Enclaves | Alephograph by Ryan Panos

Categories: Sketches • Tags: alephograph, Archilibs, architecture, art, drawing, ink, mix-media, Ryan Panos, sketch, sketchbook

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sketching \ Helmut Jahn

October 9, 2012 by bg-martin

Helmut Jahn drawings | 1991 Given the sleek high-tech look of his buildings, few would associate Jahn with the timeless act of scribbling. He is, however, an obsessive draughtsman for whom drawing is an indispensable activity. Jahn’s drawing is fueled through building and his is a practical imagination, one that preys on a particular project’s constraints. His flights of fancy are rarely an end in themselves but are almost always related to solving problems. …

Categories: drawings, Sketches • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, drawing, Helmut Jahn, ink, scribble, sketch