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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.  

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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.  

Banister Fletcher (what a name!)  Absolutely amazing book my dad managed to find in Oxfam! Love the idea of an architectural family tree, definitely would like to produce my own version of this idea in order to communicate how fashions in architecture change.  Love the smaller illustrations of architectural features too.   

Ingrid Siliakus.  Just. Amazing. 

Some more of Ferreria’s tiny work.  Not sure I could make something this small, but I’d love to try.  I really like the city in a box.  

I love Eliana Ferreria’s work, I find it amazing someone can work so small! I love her use of bright colours, which makes her work even more fun to look at.  

Absolutely love John Piper’s work.  I think he manages to capture a lot of dramatic atmosphere with his mixed media work.  Whether this reflects his personal feelings about the building he is drawing or he is trying to reflect the general personality of the building I don’t know, but these are things I would love to be able to achieve at some point with my work.  I would love to try out some mixed media experiments too, as up until now I have only been working in pen and water colour for my buildings.     

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This site is amazing for inspiration!! 

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I know these images by Carnovsky have nothing to do with architecture, but I want to try out this technique of layering images.  To use buildings as a form of portraiture - by layering a portrait over an illustration of a building, to show changing fashions in architecture - by layering different buildings from different eras over each other, to show world/uk history - layering a building over an illustration of something significant from the time it was built.  It would be interesting to see how clear the things I’m trying to communicate are.  

Maurice Mathon’s Architecture en Pop-up book cover features a stunning pop up model.  I love the way that the building is made up from what seems like fairly simple sections, put together to make something which looks very complicated.  This image has made me think that if I make something like this, I will have to consider lighting when photographing it.