My work at our degree show! :D

neverdespairneversurrender asked: You are just amazing! I have to do the pub crawl before I leave Oxford. :DDD

aw thank you so much! :D 

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Unfortunately, I don’t know who produced this, but its very relevant to my own work.  Here, whoever produced this is showing their audience the correlation between time and building height.  I think it also shows the audience something about social changes and human advancements in construction.  I can relate my own timeline to this.  I think I could make something which would engage my audience more, doing the same thing but with 3d models of each building, getting people to put them in order. 

Promo material for Nottingham Trent University degree show, by Andrew Townsend.  Although this leaflet probably isn’t giving information about buildings, I really like the design and look of it.  I think the colour scheme is bright and eye-catching, with stylistic architectural illustrations.  I think it’s an interesting piece and something I would like to replicate in my own style.  Would be interesting to use some different coloured papers.    

Architecture, Sociology - “How Buildings learn?” →

This programme looks at a number of things, some of which are relevant to my own objectives, including explaining to the audience how cities have been built up and the changing fashions of architecture.  

A small book looking again into using buildings as a form of portraiture.  In the book I have drawn portraits of some friends and then put an illustration of each person’s house next to them. (I look like I cant stand my own house!)  I wanted to make my audience think about relationships between people and their houses.  I always find it really interesting looking at portraits of people I know nothing about, with things which are important to them.  It makes me wonder about who these people are and what they think about their possessions (or in this case their homes).  This is my take on the portraits the upper classes had done with their estates when it was fashionable to do so.  

Another concertina, this time trying to communicate how diverse buildings which have the same purpose can be.  As I had so many reference photos of pubs from my FMP, I thought I would do start with a pubs one, however I would also like to communicate the same thing with other buildings, including schools, churches, libraries etc.  I think these might give me a greater diversity in architecture, since there are some dire churches, schools and libraries, and also some beautiful ones.  

Experiment into communicating the sorts of buildings you might find in certain areas.  These buildings are all from the centre of oxford.  I could apply this format and subject to anywhere.  I want to do one for cheltenham, as it would probably show people that most of cheltenham was built in the 1800s and has a lot of regency architecture.  It’s quite nice to choose areas which have a lot of similar architecture.  I think it would also be interesting to do one for the Cotswolds, and one for an area with more modern buildings.

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This lovely little animation has reminded me that I wanted to do a short animation, showing how a town or city has been built up.  I haven’t left myself any time to do it though, but I might story board something…

I really do like the illustrations from The English Country Cottage and I think it could diversify my own style if I was to draw buildings like this from different perspectives, rather than always from straight on.  I usually avoid having to deal with perspective, which is silly because when I was forced to draw a building from a funny angle, it turned out to be one of my more successful pieces (my own illustration here at the bottom).  

I find the illustrations for the dust jacket of Your House, the Outside View a bit odd.  The drawings look like a mix between a drawings done in traditional media, and drawings done digitally (unlikely since the book was published 1975…).  I’m not sure I really like them at all, although the use of vibrant colour is something I would like to look into for my own work.    

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The Shakespeare Temple at Hampton House (1762) by Johann Zoffany

Looking at the time when the upper class were painted with/infront of/in their estates, displaying what they owned to show their wealth.  A form of portraiture where architecture and buildings were an important element.  I would like to do a modern take on this, although it would be a challenge for me as I absolutely hate drawing people.  As well as being an experiment into showing buildings as a form of portraiture, I think it could also be an interesting way of showing how society has changed.  

This is an experiment into how I can communicate architectural history, and also the geography of a town or city.  So with these tiny models, I would either draw out a timeline and make it so people would have to guess when the buildings were built, and place them on the timeline on the correct dates, or draw a map which had a number on each place where the building exists, and make it so people have to place the building on the map in the order they think they were built.  

1830 - Pittville Pump Room
1929 - Westal Green Sub Station
1965 - United Church of St. Micheal
1970 - St. Barnabas Church
1984 - Regent Arcade
2004 - The Centaur  

Final books :)

Elizabeth Rotchford - Long →

I had forgotten I’d looked at these lovely books at the beginning of my FMP.  I find these small books very interesting and I like the use of different papers, and how Rotchford has mixed different papers within the same book.  I think they almost look like natural forms, and have a rustic and raw feel to them.  I do love a good concertina!