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The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878)

February 10, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Starting in 1814, when he was already 55, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika published over 4000 small drawings on extremely varied subjects. The 15 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: drawing lessons, Japan, sketches, taxonomy

Kon Wajiro’s Archaeology of Present Times

December 10, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Japanese architect, sociologist, and educator Kon Wajiro was living in Tokyo when the violent 1923 earthquake occurred. With his students, he visited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: drawings, sketches, taxonomy, Urban

Constructing Abstraction. Pablo Picasso’s Constellation Drawings (1924)

February 13, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

The Constellations drawings are a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso drawn on sixteen pages of a notebook in 1924. For these small drawings in black … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Fields Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, ink, sketches

Illustrating through Parallel Lines: Works by Owen D. Pomery

July 17, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Owen D. Pomery has an  educational and professional background in architecture and nowadays he works in pen and ink as a professional illustrator for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, illustration, sketches

Understanding How Something is Created: the Drawing Process of Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu

June 29, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Belgian architectural office "Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu" (A DVVT) uses to produce a wide range of architectural drawings that cannot be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Visual Atlas Tagged With: sketches

“A Given Moment of a Fleeting Reality”: Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor in Oliveira de Azeméis by Álvaro Siza Vieira (1971-1974)

June 16, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

At the start of the seventies, Porto-born architect Álvaro Siza Vieira completed a series of small-scale projects in the north of Portugal, close to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: drawings, form of form, models, sketches

An Introduction to Rudolf Olgiati’s Vocabulary

May 18, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Swiss architect Rudolf Olgiati (1910-1995) constructed most of his buildings in the region of Grisons in Switzerland. Most of his works were family … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: drawings, house plans, sketches, vocabulary

Andrew DeGraff’s Unfinished Construction Sites

April 15, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Illustrator and painter Andrew DeGraff is working on a series of sketches of unfinished construction sites with a surreal twist. The axonometric … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, illustrations, sketches

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