Architectural Note Taking Sketching

Lutyens - A tangent

Snmichele - a tangent to a tangent!

Two quick note-taking sketches from the weekend... I read a great quote and wonder what building it refers to...I look up a few books from my library(a building I know little about) and it was influenced by another building (which I know even less about) so I look that up.... 10 books off the shelf now... where is the book I started reading???

The point of these sketches is to sketch as quickly as I can (so I can get back to reading my book) and also by the act of sketching to remember the important features of the building I was researching.

By the way, the book that I started to re-read (which started this adventure) for the 10th time is
The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson.
The BEST book that I read in my early years as an architecture student and a book that I would recommend to anyone to read who wants an introduction to Classical Architecture. I owe a lot to that book!

A few pages from my 'book' I made from my first trip to Rome

Following on from my last post... here is the work that I did prior to becoming addicted to sketching on location. (hope it is not too slow to load!)

Open publication - Free publishing - More travel

All of this was put together after I got home... this was produced during 2004. This was all printed on my Epson inkjet printer and hard bound together by a binding company that mainly does thesis binding.

I learnt so much from doing this research but the most significant part was the notated diagrams, plans, elevations that summarised all that I had read. There is a lot that we can learn from history...certainly I think that my feel for composition has been really assisted by my study of classical architecture. I do wish I knew more about proportion though..