10 Oct 2008

Domestic Space / Public Space

aperture titleUtilising both drawing and text describe a domestic space and an associated public space you know or have known and can visit.




Rules.
Every drawing throughout the year must be concerned with NARRATIVE, LIGHT, MATERIALITY and USE.



Key Texts
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.
Species of Spaces and Other Places, Georges Perec
The Lume Materiale in the Architecture of Venice, Marco Frascari.
Immaterial Architecture, Jonathan Hill, Routledge.
This is not Architecture, Kester Rattenbury (Ed.):
Introduction, Kester Rattenbury
Chapter one, The Revelation of Order, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Routledge.


st jerome in his study paintingSt Jerome in his Study, Antonello da Messina, (Room 62, National Gallery)


Required reading: "Saint Jerome in his Study",
in Species of Spaces and Other Places, by Georges Perec


So too in architectural drawing, light showed up late. And what it showed up when it arrived was space. It was a great conquest, but it was neither complete nor sudden; architectural space would remain, one way or another, limited by and bonded to the pictures that normally gave access to it.
Robin Evans, The Projective Cast, Architecture and its Three Geometries.

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