Drawingin the Nation's Cupboards
Anderson Inge

Intermediate - Autumn 2011

32 Bedford Square-
Second Floor Back
Wednesdays, 2-5pm

 

“If I had to reduce the world to one tool, it would be soft pencil”

- Ron Arad, world-renowned architect and furniture designer, and AA graduate


"So much more than I expected from a 'drawing class', a new perspective in visualization was unravelled."

- student from course, Spring 2011

The confidence to develop ideas through free-hand drawing is the single most important tool a designer can possess. Developing the vision for a design is a richly iterative process, fraught with urgency, and the ability to draw out your ideas in the moment, in situ, is a priceless tool for architects.

We will draw on the infinite richness available from world-class collections near the AA, as we develop our ability to draw both form observation and from imagination. We will transcend the prevalent crushing emphasis on drawing merely to portray, to arrive at drawing that generates and develops a vision.

The venues for our weekly drawing sessions offer a highly stimulating range of forms, materiality, making processes, and tectonics, with these experiences constantly informed by extraordinary exposure to objects of world historic value. These differing settings and our complementary discussions will provoke the development of a range of highly useful drawing strategies. Among these will be: pictorial representation and perspective; analytic drawing utilizing abstracted orthogonal projections and imaginary points of view; and the storyboarding of narratives underpinning formal visions.

During the second half of the term, each student will independently develop a drawn architectural vision of their devising. This is to be submitted at the end of term, along with digital copies of their session drawings. The nature of the independent submission will be developed in discussions with the tutor, and it is intended to be a natural manifestation of the student’s ongoing developing architectural vision. As attested by previous students, on this course you will achieve confidence in drawing-by-hand.

 

Image: Course
Image Credit: Patricia Mato-Mora
    • Session 1: Wednesday 5th Oct:

    • -Meet in the southwest corner of the BM Great Court.
      -Introduction to the course and the British Museum
      -Drawing session in the BM’s Clocks collection (Gallery 38, on Upper Floor)

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    • Session 2: Wednesday 12th Oct:

    • -Meet initially for seminar at 39 Bedford Sq, 1st Flr front.
      -Seminar: review of first works, and Elements of Form.ppt discussion
      -Drawing session in the BM’s Elgin Marbles gallery (Gallery 18)

       

    • Session 3: Wednesday 19th Oct:

    • -Meet at the Hunterian Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
      -Drawing session in Hunterian’s fabulous collection of anatomical specimens and medical instuments.

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    • Session 4: Wednesday 26th Oct:

    • -Meet at entry to BM King’s Library, west side of Great Court.
      -Drawing session in the BM’s Hall of Enlightenment

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    • Session 5: Wednesday 9th Nov:

    • -Meet at Architectural Drawings Collection, 2nd Flr, Exhibition Rd entry.
      -Drawing session in the V&A Museum: intro to the Architectural Drawings collection, followed by drawing in the Architecture gallery (Room 128) and the Cast Courts

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    • Session 6: Wednesday 16th Nov:

    • -Meet at the Information desk, southeast corner of BM Great Court.
      -Drawing session in the BM’s The Americas gallery

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    • Session 7: Wednesday 23rd Nov:

    • -Meet at the Information desk, southeast corner of BM Great Court.
      -Drawing session in the Horological Study Collection, access by special arrangement

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    • Session 8: Wednesday 30th Nov:

    • -Meeting at 39 Bedford Sq, 1st Flr front.
      -Hand-in, followed by a group Review of the term’s work

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    • Friday 2nd Dec:

    • -Department Submission












  • Enrolled Students

    Ritika Daswani
    Albane Duvillier
    Marianna Maria-Aikaterini Filippou
    Andrew Jin Dar Hum
    Despoina Kafetzopoulou
    Kai Ching Richard Leung

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  • *Please note, any students unable to be enrolled in a MS Autumn 2011 course will be prioritised for enrolment for the Winter 2012 term.

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