Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Der el-Bahari, Thebes, 1511-1480 B.C., Senmut.

Scala De Spagna (Spanish Steps), Rome, 1721-25

Plane #03 - Primary Elements

Overhead Plane, Wall Plane, & Base Plan

Plane #02 - Primary Elements

Plane #01 - Primary Elements

Solarium of Condominium Unit 1, Sea Ranch, California, 1966, MLTW

Linear elements defining planes

Trellised Courtyard, Georgia O'Keefe Residence, Abiquiu, Northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Cary House, Mill Valley, California, 1963, Joseph Esherick

St. Philibert, Tournus, France, 950-1120

Cloister of Moissac, France, c. 1100

It's MAY!

The Basilica, Vicenza, Italy & Stoa of Attalus, Fronting the Agora, Athens

Atles Museum, Berlin, 1823-30, Karl Friedrich von Schinkel

From Line to Plane

This is the post make-up-response to why I was absent from posting anything up yesterday. Sorry!

Seagram Building, New York City, 1956-58, Mies Van Der Rohe and Philip Johnson

Gosh, this has got to be the laziest sketch I've ever done. I had things going on today, and was pretty late to sketch anything to post up before the day ends. Sorry, will keep up next time! Thanks for coming!

Crown Hall, School of Architecture and Urban Design Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1956, Mies Van Der Rohe

Town Hall, Saynatsalo, Finland, 1950-52, Alvar Aalto

Cornell University Undergraduate Housing, Ithica, New York, 1974, Richard Meier

Villa Aldobrandini, Italy, 1598-1603, Giacomo Della Porta
House 10, 1966, John Hejduk

Katsura Palace, Kyoto, Japan, 17th Century

I wasn't feeling it today and ended up with a scruffy sketch. Will do better the next one!

Caryatid Porch, The Erechtheion, Athens, 421-405 B.C. Mnesicles

Sultan Selin Mosque, Builder: Sinan, Edirne, Turkey. A.D. 1569-75

Bell Tower, Church at Vuoksenniska, Finland, 1956, Alvar Aalto

The Mall, Washington DC

Line Orientation

The Adventure Begins

Assalamualaikum.
Hi there. First of all, I would like to welcome you to my blog. This is the first for me, and hopefully this will continue to be a success. So for that, thank you so much for coming and visiting this blog. As you can see, this post is a continuation of a previous entry that I published a while ago. I decided to leave the pictures because it was part of a documentation project (RECiii - check out our backpacking online journal to Vietnam and Bangkok here, and mine here) that -long story short- lead to the beginning of this exciting adventure. So without further a due, here we go ...


I will begin my journey of sketching Francis D.K. Ching's work, starting with one of my personal favourites of his. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order (image above).

Primary Elements: Point, Line, Plane, and Volume

Torii, Ise Shrine, Mie Prefecture, Japan A.D. 690