Message of Conceptual Art
Architecture is a craft … and it?takes years of practice before you start to routinely exist in the delicate balance between programming requirements and artistic expression. When it comes down to it, if you want to sell an idea, and more relevantly, sell it to a wider public audience, you've basically got to communicate it in 30 seconds. For this reason, perhaps a more relevant medium lies within the age old wobbly hand of the architect, the hand drawn sketch. Obviously, this is nothing new, and it was probably how mankind first communicated instructions for building, but there is a relatively new trend of architects mainly in the Netherlands and Japan that are pushing sketches in a new direction. The drawing speaks of activity, inherently present a spatial implication, and most importantly is as user friendly as a toaster.
So with that overly exhaustive preamble... I am going to do a series of posts on simple, playful and punchy architecture sketches.
Drawings are startlingly simple, but perhaps what's even more impressive is how the built realities of these sketches are really not 100 miles away from the original conception. There is a mind boggling purity in the transition from drawing to building.
p.s Never stop diagramming....