Tuesday, August 5, 2008

faces in the crowd



(image credit: prabhat photo@ flickr)

OK, the short essays on your characters are coming in and, as they do, whole worlds are opening up. As I hope you can see, when we begin to imagine these people as a collective community their differences, their appearances, their private obsessions begin to create a rich landscape.

When, as we will, we take these people into the housing project, the opportunity for imagining a suburban landscape that is formally and culturally rich emerges. Good work.

A couple of people have emailed me asking if they are 'right' in creating a profile. Of course there is no right answer to this, just as no-one has a 'right' personality. Its just about depth, real and apparent. Probably the best way to advance is to scan through the characters of your colleagues and gain inspiration from those descriptions that you like - from the impressionistic to the analytic.

This is a studio about communications and, as I hope you are beginning to see, there are many ways to communicate ideas about architecture.

3 comments:

wilkschy said...

Hi Sean,

Not sure whether i should email or comment but anyway...

I'm having trouble in SketchUp trying to create the fan/feather idea I have shown in my blog. Any ideas on techniques that might work - or would it be better do use a different design program.

Thanks for your help,
Sophie W

Gavin Crump said...

Not sure if anyone noticed but some of the pages have became hacked or taken over by advertisements (for example Ross Gibb's page got taken over by a 'consolidation' ad). Not sure if he realised yet though...

Clown RG said...

Ross Gibb here..


i changed my Blogger site to
http://rcg-clown.blogspot.com/

so if u could delete my old one and replace it.. THANX