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GRAPHIC ART OF

SURFACES AND MATERIALS

(Course Syllabi for third-year students in Architecture)

Summary

  1.     Introduction (An overview of goals and methods; patterns and technical samples; semester's copy- book            with previous assignments, cover page design, header and footer, our graphical pre-requisites)

  2.      Basic Shapes (Rectangular and curved bodies - natural and built appearances)

  3.      Shadows (Contour-side opposites of tone - the "Local Contrast")

  4.      Light effects

  5.      Special phenomena (Reflection, transparency, heaping of shadows and lights)

  6.      Kinds of materials on simple shapes

  7.      Comparison of surfaces

  8.      Coverings (Mall Interior)

  9.      Perspective Reconstruction by using Orthogonal Views (plus Shadow Construction by Freehand)

10.      Spatial planes

11.      Colored graphics

12.      Details studies

13.      Final task (a combined setting)

14.      Copy-book documentation (size A/4) of our semester work

Home work items:

     •     Living room interior (plan, wall elevations, perspective, materials)
     •     Villa (façade materials, views, section profile, perspective picture)
     •     Public building interior (coverings, details, perspective picture)
     •     Public building (night and day appearance)
     •     Depicting of Vegetation (tree, bush, flower, harvest, organic forms)
     •     Shadow construction (using orthogonal pictures; taking the cube's spatial diagonal as light beam)

General Menu

1. Lipchitz's Flute player in the Kinkead Pavillon, UIUC

I. Walking around the Subject

•     Art Historical Precedents

•     Related Theoretical Background Knowledge

II. Demonstration of Means and Techniques

•     Drawings and Experiments taken of my own Gallery

•     Demonstration of traditional Techniques

III. Assignments and Consultation

•     On-the-spot drills

•     Individual work

Detailed Schedule

I . BASIC SHAPES

Rectangular and curved bodies - Natural and built appearances

Walking around the Subject

• Art historical Samples
• Theoretical background (Orthogonal pictures, cover perspective, spatial planes)

Demonstration

• Patterns and techniques (pencil, ink, thick pencil, felt pen, drop-in pen, brush, pastel, pitt-chalk, water color, gouache, mixed experiments and similar)

Related assignments

• On-the-spot drill (Furniture with background)
• Individual study (Composition made of cylindrical bodies)

Consultation (Evaluation of cover page and lettering)

II . SHADOWS

Theory (Cast and self shadows, the "Local Contrast")
Sample analysis
Demonstration

     •     Thick pencils
     •     Color pencils
     •     Chalk, pitt, sanguine
     •     Gray scale
     •     Pen, ink, art pen
     •     Wet techniques (brush, rug, sponge)

On-the-spot drill
Individual study - eligible subjects:

           A - Candle light
           B - Lamp shade (with its wall projection)

2. F. L. Wright's Home and studio in Oak Park, Chicago

III . LIGHT EFFECTS

Inspiring art historical samples
Theoretical part:

     •     Top light, random light, reflected light
     •     Direct and indirect light
     •     Backlight, touching light
     •     Natural and artificial light

Demonstration

     •     Local workshop (Light hunting, white lifting, non-white bases)
     •     Individual work (Home interior with different techniques)

3. Prof. Botond Bognar's living room in Urbana

IV . SPECIAL PHENOMENA

(Reflection and Transparency)

Art historical quotations
Theoretical background knowledge
           (Light refraction, construction of mirror picture, covering, space plane dissection, multi-shadows effects,            multiplex lights, etc.)

My own Gallery

Technical demonstration

     •     Local workshop (Corner of mirror planes)
     •     Home work (Curtain wall, glass surfaces)

Evaluation of previous task

4. The Kinkead Pavillon of Krannert Museum in Illinois

V . MATERIALS and FORMS

Introduction (Famous Painters of the Nederland)
Theoretical knowledge (Appearance of different materials on basic shapes)
Samples of my own gallery

Still life techniques

Local drill (rope, basket, texture, matting)

Individual work: Analyzing of Opposites (eligible materials are e. g. metal, glass, stone, concrete, brick, tile, ceramics, clay, sand, wood, leather, plastic, rubber, plaster, vegetables, etc.)

Columns of our copy-book's center page are - "Shapes"
           Rectangular bodies (planes and edges)
           Curved bodies (cylinder and sphere)
           Appearances (natural and built)

Center page's rows are - "Materials"

     •     Let's choose three kinds of different materials in order to experiment their possible graphical appearance             on these enumerated basic shapes!

MATERIALS	SHAPES
	Rectangular bodies		Curved bodies		Appearances
	plane	edge	cylinder	sphere	natural	built
Rubber, leather
Plastic
Plaster, coat of plaster
Ceramics, tiles
Brick
Paper
Living material, vegetal
Concrete
Stone
Metall
Glass
Wood
Textile, linen

VI . SURFACES

           Art historical introduction (Vase Pictures)
           Background knowledge (Layer lines, dropping lines, follow-surface linear web)
           My own Gallery - samples
           Demonstrative techniques (lavish, brush, white gouache, etc.)

           Assignment (Facade element engraved and as a relief)

           Individual collection work in ink technique (Graphics of different surfaces related to a chosen shape - e. g.            the same tool with diverse variations like plain, milled, waved, modeled, spun, etc.)

5. Admission and Records' Building at UIUC-campus

VII . GRAPHIC ART of COVERINGS

Art historical samples (Vertical, horizontal and tilted planes)
Theory (Sequence of drawing, linear perspective, the Guide Plane, the Vanishing Point, How to determine the Horizon, structural oblique lines, proportion measuring, the "Local Contrast", graphical art of material coloring)

Demonstration

     •     Public buildings (my own gallery)
     •     Cut-out techniques

Assignment

     •     Interior of a Mall
     •     Individual work finished with realistic approach

6. Gustavo Romero plays Beethoven in the Smith Hall, UIUC

VIII . PERSPECTIVE RECONSTRUCTION BY USING OF ORTHOGONAL PICTURES

Introduction (Drawings made by Famous Architects)
Theory (How to construct the Perspective of our own Design using Orthogonal Pictures, Shadow construction by Freehand, comparison of ruler and freehand)
Perspective samples (Competitions, clients)

• Reconstructive exercises with a chosen Horizon
• Structural cubic grid over a plan modeling a "Greek Cross"

IX . GRAPHIC ART OF SPACE PLANES

Subject's Introduction

Art historical samples ("Donjon" drawings of Leonardo da Vinci)
Background knowledge (Arial perspective, line interruption, tone layer)

Demonstration

Technical Samples (Spatial planes, collage, etc.)

Workshop and individual work (A walking tour around a freely chosen architectural element)

7. Orchard Dawns, Family Housing in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

X . GRAPHICAL COLORING

Collection of art historical samples
Additional knowledge of colors (Limited possibilities of multiplication)
Technical demonstration (White lifting, passe-par-tout, coloring without real colors)

"White lifting" exercises (To begin with, we'll need some non-white based copies of a linear drawing of ours, prepared earlier, e.g. the Mall-Interior/)

8. The Bofill-Tower in Chicago