Antoine Predock.Drawings [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Drawing is both a vehicle for understanding and a gestural act itself (in this case for Austin City Hall). Recording an experience via drawing embodies much more than an analytical intention. In fact, my drawings aren't very analytical. When I draw historic buildings, they are inaccurate in many ways. My drawings are close, but they are not about detail or proportion. They are about the spirit of a building or a place, and the spirit embedded in the encounter and its transition. Drawing is a way of taking on a place, absorbing it, immersing myself in it. The drawings are essential to introduce a project to my team and having them live it with me; they constitute a critical starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the in the collective process. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Clay models [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the case of clay models (below left), my team literally cuts out functional programmes in cardboard, to scale, in terms of footprints and volume. They're abstract squares or rectangles and I test them against the clay forms as I'm assembling and shaping the clay. So I don't do "I Don't Do" was the debut single by glamour model Michelle Marsh, released on 6 November 2006. The single reached 27 in the UK in its first week, selling only 9,000 copies and over 16,000 copies as of January 2007. The single spend a total of four weeks in the Top 75. an architectural concept sketch and see if the programme has anything to do with it. It's embedded in the work from the very beginning and discussions with clients, with respect to the programmatic pro·gram·mat·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or having a program. 2. Following an overall plan or schedule: a step-by-step, programmatic approach to problem solving. 3. life of the building, are very exciting and lead off into interesting directions of the programmatic intensities in the work. The clay model melds the functional needs with an architectural solution addressing the multi-dimensional nature of the specific place. The clay medium not only ties the design to the earth, making the design part of the landscape rather than an object standing in it, but also provides a degree of malleability malleability, property of a metal describing the ease with which it can be hammered, forged, pressed, or rolled into thin sheets. Metals vary in this respect; pure gold is the most malleable. Silver, copper, aluminum, lead, tin, zinc, and iron are also very malleable. at this early point in the process, accommodating the comments and observations of the client. In this sense, the clay model is highly emblematic em·blem·at·ic or em·blem·at·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or serving as an emblem; symbolic. [French emblématique, from Medieval Latin embl of our approach to the design process as a whole. ANTOINE PREDOCK Antoine Predock (born 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967. , ANTOINE PREDOCK ARCHITECT Admired: Louis I Louis I, king of Bavaria Louis I, 1786–1868, king of Bavaria (1825–48), son and successor of King Maximilian I. He was chiefly responsible for transforming Munich into one of the handsomest capitals of Europe and for making it a center of the . Kahn sketch of Adler House, Philadelphia, PA cl955 Latent in Kahn's sketch is the power of the executed work, not a rehearsal, but the actual event. There is an obvious spontaneity and process of development with the sketch--implicit in the act itself. Kahn's sketches are not aspiring to be anything other than what they are, an innocent moment in time. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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