Drawing for Architecture
Drawing for Architecture Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.Architect L on Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments…
Specifikacia Drawing for Architecture
Drawing for Architecture
Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.Architect L on Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment.
Thus he shows us a building bearing a suspicious resemblance to Norman Foster's famous London "gherkin" as an example of "priapus hubris" (threatened by detumescence and "priapus nemesis"); he charts "Random Uniformity" ("fake simplicity") and "Uniform Randomness" ("fake complexity"); he draws bloated "bulimic" and disproportionately scrawny "anorexic" columns flanking a graceful "classical"