meblogg:1003P78817: October 2010

SJ05 - Thumbnail and perspective

SJ04(a) - Frank Llyod Wright's Work

Frank Lloyd Wright spent more than 70 years creating designs that revolutionized the art and architecture of the twentieth century. Many innovations in today's buildings are products of his imagination. In all he designed 1141 works - including houses, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges, museums and many other building types. Of that total, 532 resulted in completed works, 409 of which still stand. (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation)

Some of his most popular masterpiece in architecture are as below:

Fallingwater

Fallingwater, the residential masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright, was designed in 1936 for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. Considered by some as the most famous private house ever built, Fallingwater epitomizes man living in harmony with nature. (About.com)

'' There in a beautiful forest was a solid, high rock ledge rising beside a waterfall, and the natural thing seemed to be to cantilever the house from that rock bank over the falling water...''

--Frank Lloyd Wright in an interview with Hugh Downs, 1954

Guggenheim Museum

Swelling out towards the city of Manhattan, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was the last major project designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1943 until it opened to the public in 1959, six months after his death, making it one of his longest works in creation along with one of the most popular projects. Completely contrasting the strict Manhattan city grid, the organic curves of the museum are a familiar landmark for both art lovers, visitors and pedestrians alike. (Arch Daily)

Jacobs House

The first of two houses that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Herbert and Katherine Jacobs has an open, L-shaped floor plan with connecting living and dining areas. Wright designed and built the First Jacobs house in 1936-37, but he designed the dining room tables much earlier in about 1920. The long oak dining table and the built-in-bench were especially designed for this house. (About.com)

SJ03(b) - Sketch during the lecture

SJ03(a) - 1 plan, 3 perspective and 2 details

SJ02(b) - 3 object 1 perspective

Perspective: The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt

This perspective shows how strokes can aid in producing 3Dimensional view of the sketch. The density of the strokes applied, for example, scribbling neatly on the surface of the pyramid produces a darker tone which illustrates shadow forming on the surface of that region whereas if vice versa, sunlight forms on the surface of that region.

For this perspective, I applied strokes such as scribble, short dash, pointillism and cross-hatching. In this perspective, I realized that scribbles can best represent the harsh surface of the pyramid of Giza, besides also knowing that pointillism is also an alternative stroke. Other than that, short dash can illustrate smooth surfaces like the walls of bricks on the base of the statue and pointillism can portrays the granular structure of a surface like the desert where the Great Pyramid of Giza stands. Lastly, cross hatching can effectively produce different tones of light and shadow which give the object a 3Dimensional approach.

Below are objects applied with these strokes which produce different effects on the objects.