Architecture Sketches

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Erich Mendelsohn's Sketch

Einstein Tower (Potsdam, Germany)

Erich Mendelsohn

(21 March 1887-15 September 1953)

"Draughtsmanship is no substitute for spatial realitysaid Mendelsohn. "We must combine sculptural form with the spatial (and spiritual) and thi

s the third road to the future of architecture."

The Einstein Toweris an astrophysical observator

n the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam,Germany designed by architect Erich

Mendelsohn. It was built for astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich to support experiments an
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observations to validate Albert Einstein's relativity theory. The building was first conceived

around 1917, built from 1920 to 1921 after a fund-raising drive, and became operational in

924. It is still a working solar observatory today as part of the Astrophysical Institute of

Potsdam. Light from the telescope is brought down through the shaft to the basement whe

he instruments and laboratory are located.POSTED BY GONEWILD.. AT 15:1311 COMMENTS

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Mario Botta's Sketches (2)

Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland

(1993 - 1996)

The museum is dedicated to the work ofJean Tinguely, one of Switzerland's greatest

sculptors, who died in 1991. The building has a rectangular plan, and each of its sidesresponds in a different way to the prevailing urban conditions. Whereas on one side it rise

to a solid wall, in an effort to shut out the constant din of motorway traffic, on the other side

embraces the adjacent park area with a series of generously proportioned front naves. A

entrance to the park and to the museum, the building provides a space for mediation with t

city; it also provides a walkway suspended above the river. The museum becomes a

reorganizing influence, dominating and controlling its location. This is how Botta's desig

process works - through constant attention to the surrounding environment, to the conditio

the history and the morphological demands of the site.
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The museum is a wonderfully surprising delight. All four levels are alive with ponderous

movement, musical with the clean notes of working machinery. "Works of art usually mak

their statements silently, " said Mario Botta, the Swiss architect who designed the museu

specifically to house the collection. "These works are the exception, for they communicat

through sound engendered by their movements." Many of the exhibits in the museum we

donated by Tinguely's wife and fellow artist, Niki de Saint Phalle.

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Vitra Design Museum

Weil am Rhein, Germany

Frank Gehry

Sketch: Nate Umsteadvia
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The design museum houses temporary exhibitions on themes of furniture design, and

Gehry's building makes a suitable host for them - in keeping with the theme, but - once

inside - supporting, not competing with, the exhibitions.POSTED BY GONEWILD.. AT 20:344 COMMENTS

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Piazza Navona, Sant'agnese in AgoneCampo Marzio, Rome, Italy

( 1653 to 1655 )

Architects: Carlo Rainaldi, Francesco Borromini, Girolamo Rainaldi, Antonio del Grande

Giovanni Maria Baratti.

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Sketch: Michael Graves

We would like to thank Russell Fernandez for sharing the sketch, from the new book

Michael Graves; Images of a Grand Tourpublished by Princeton Architectural Press


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San Pietro, Michelangelo's Dome

Vatican City, Rome, Italy

Michelangelo (full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)

(March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564)

The dome or cupola was designed by Michelangelo, who

became chief architect in 1546. At the time of his death (1564), the dome was finished as

as the drum, the base on which domes sit. The dome was vaulted between 1585 and 159

by the architect Giacomo della Porta with the assistance ofDomenico Fontana, who w
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probably the best engineer of the day. Fontana built the lantern the following year, and th

ball was placed in 1593. (for more details..)



Michael Graves; Images of a Grand Tourpublished by Princeton Architectural Press


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Tempietto Del Bramante

Janiculum Hill, Rome, Italy

Bramante, Donato

(1444-1514)
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In the courtyard where St. Peter was thought to have been crucified, this small temple

echoes circular classical temples in the Forum and elsewhere in Rome. The peristyle an

steps circle around the main cylinder.



Michael Graves; Images of a Grand Tourpublished by Princeton Architectural PressPOSTED BY GONEWILD.. AT 21:470 COMMENTS

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Steven Holl's Sketches

Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland)
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"In each project, we seek new ways to integrate an organizing

idea with the programmatic and functional essence of a building. Rather than a "style"

carried to different sites and climates, or pursued regardless of different programs, we see

the unique character of a program and site, local and global, as the starting point for an

architectural idea."

"...as the perspective changes, as you move throu

space, you have a parallax of spatial overlap.This for me is central and in a certain way it's

small manifesto because you cannot photograph this phenomenon.You need to experienc

by walking through the spaces in a building. For example, in my Helsinki Museum, there a

twenty-five galleries in a sequence that are experienced like a musical cadence which tak

half an hour to walk through the whole sequence. So, there is no way you can photograpthat. "


L I N K S

GoneWild
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Architectural Ruminations

Archidose

anArchitecture

BLDBLOG

architechnophilia

Archinect

Fresh Architecturemirage.studio

Architecture and Morality

Architecture Radio

MAGICALURBANISM

World Architecture News

The Architectural Review

geosocial.net

Do You Want Some Coffee?

P R E V I O U S P O S T S

Erich Mendelsohn's Sketch

Mario Botta's Sketches (2)

Vitra Design Museum

Piazza Navona, Sant'agnese in Agone

San Pietro, Michelangelo's DomeTempietto Del Bramante

Steven Holl's Sketches

Michael Maltzan's Sketches

Frank O. Gehrys Sketches (3)


A R C H I V E S

September 2005

October 2005

November 2005

December 2005

March 2006

May 2007
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Blogs that link here

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Guggenheim Museum /Bilbao

"As soon as I understand the scale of the building and the relationship to the site and the

relationship to the client, as it becomes more and more clear to me, I start doing

sketches".FOG

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DG Bank Building (Berlin, Germany)

"I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination; I am

able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building".

"I spend a lot more time with clients than people could guess. Because I think that is the w

we move forward and they get what they want and they feel comfortable about it. It is a

process that lets them know you're listening to what their problems are. But it also is a

process that creates the opportunities for invention, because it is that interaction that mak

it exciting and rich. And I love the process most of all, the people processbetter than the

final building actually."

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Santiago Calatrava's Sketches (2)

Turning Torso (Malm, Sweden)

There was a wish to get something exceptional," Calatrava said after accepting a prize fro

ocal authorities. "I also wanted to deliver something technically unique."

For more information, please visit; www.turningtorso.com


Jrn Utzon's Sketches

Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia)
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Jrn Utzon said: It (the naming) gives me the greatest pleasure and satisfaction. I dont

think you can give me more joy as the Architect. It supersedes any medal of any kind that

could get and have got.

"On the road from the first idea - the first sketch - to the final building, a host of possibilitie

arise for the architect and the team of engineers, contractors and artisans. Only when thefoundation for the choice between the various solutions derives from the awareness that t

building must provide the people who are to live in it with delight and inspiration do the

correct solutions to the problems fall like ripe fruits."

Mario Botta's Sketches

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

"In a contemporary city," says Mario Botta, "the

museum is elevated to the status of a new cathedral, a place for the memory of and
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relationship with other epochs, as filtered through the works of art exhibited. But it is also a

urban focus."

"Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to

understand," Botta says. "Today museums are too large inside."

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