#paper architecture

[paperholm]

Combination 089.

Yellow Orange ~ Violet Blue

Colour study using Sanzo Wada’s Dictionary of Colour combinations.

[bhrarchinerd]

The Return: Reclaiming The Right To Move

[charlesyoung]

"The CITY GATES as they appeared before they were pulled down"

Printed watercolour paper, 2024

[cyma100]

[goodwilltemptation]

Hugh Ferris - The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929)

"A first impression of the contemporary city, let us say, the view of New York from the work-room in which most of these drawings were made. This, indeed, is to the author the familiar morning scene. But there are occasional mornings when, with an early fog not yet dispersed, one finds oneself, on stepping onto the parapet, the spectator of an even more nebulous panorama. Literally, there is nothing to be seen but mist; not a tower has yet been revealed below, and except for the immediate parapet rail (dark and wet as an ocean liner’s) there is not a suggestion of either locality or solidity for the coming scene. To an imaginative spectator, it might seem that he is perched in some elevated stage box to witness some gigantic spectacle, some cyclopean drama of forms; and that the curtain has not yet risen.

There is a moment of curiosity, even for those who have seen the play before. since in all probability they are about to view some newly arisen steel skeleton, some tower or even some street which was not in yesterday’s performance. And to one who had not been in the audience before—to some visitor from another land or another age—there could not fail to be at least a moment of wonder. What apocalypse is about to be revealed? What is its setting? And what will be the purport of this modern metropolitan drama?"

[nerveblot]

Brodsky’s angular etchings and installations... are a clear reaction against his experience in the Soviet design machine. However, their spectacular vision, full of post-totalitarian distress and agitation, are largely absent in his built projects... “I want to design spaces that make people feel good,” he says... [When] asked whether he feels he will ever build anything substantial, he shrugs. “I’ve got a wife and children – they’re what matter to me.”

quoted from icon 054

(left: "A bridge", 1987. right: Vodka Ceremony Pavilion, 2003)

[disg0rgement]

the paper architecture of Russian architects Brodsky and Utkin

Different scan qualities

[art-school-anxieties]

Jan 14th 2023 There is a small interlude in my usual studying this week as I decided to do the pre-assignment for another design school as practice. In addition to working on the assignment, I have ˑ Continued my JavaScript daily practice and review. ˑ Started learning Latin on Duolingo for fun. ˑ Attended three different exercise classes at the gym. 💪.

Now I just need to steady my course and stay focused on the goal.