MIAD Architecture Two-Point Perspective Design
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Graphite on Paper
( 48 cm x 61 cm )
April 2018
Graphite on Paper
( 48 cm x 61 cm )
April 2018
Exhibition Text
For my design I was focused on the formal qualities of creating a piece that would accentuate the environment it was in. The placement of my Queen- Anne style home would be in the city of Milwaukee, which would make the style of the home to be bizarre. The purpose of my piece is to be a home/ shelter for people in need. To create my design I looked at two artists, Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Norman Shaw. Both of who were famous for their buildings and design.
Artistic Inspiration
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fabyan Villa, built 1907, Prairie- style
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Frank Lloyd Wright was famous for his modern organic American style. He has developed many iconic buildings and 1,100 during his lifetime. Many of which came during his last decade. Wright had created this home for the Fabyan´s private museum in 1907. With this home he had created a Prairie- style residence a two-story bedroom wing to the south, upper- and lower-level porches, three verandahs and large eaves. Since this 600- acre home was in a farm like environment, Wright decided to pursue a more modern simple, but beautiful to go with the vibe of the environment. Although most of Wright´s works were more in a Japanese style, he had still included some of the form with a Japanese garden.
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Richard Norman Shaw
Untitled, 1880-1900, Queen - Anne style
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Richard Shaw was a European architect who was most famous for his ¨extensive embellishment of exterior details, as well as the expansive and picturesque porches captured the heart of the American public and quickly replaced the Second Empire and Gothic Revival styles as the most popular of the times." Queen- Anne style homes are most qualified for their show of class. Usually the homes consisted of one-story frame house, wrap-around porch with turned posts, decorative brackets, and spindlework, square layout with projecting gables to front and side pyramidal or hipped roof reflecting pyramidal massing.
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Written Research
Meaning
The purpose of my piece is to move a class like house into a Polish influenced environment to provide a home of monumental figure for the less wealthy. Possibly a foster or group home. I want the home to make the people within the home to feel like they have something to show for. Not only that, but if this home was in the Milwaukee area, seeing as there are not a lot of these type of style in homes in the area, it would give the home a unique and odd out bring. I thought that these type of homes were very beautiful and provided a doll house feel from it's variety of features. Given that I want to show how this everlasting style that dates back to the 1880's can be more modernized, but still maintaining the qualities of it's known features.
Process
Brainstorming
Sketch #1
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When I was first coming up with some ideas of where I wanted all of the faces and shapes of the house I was making the tower apart of the house rather than more outwards. Letting itself be more on it's own. Although I was having a hard time looking at the positions and where the shapes where going towards.
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Sketch #2
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After my first sketch I realized that I needed to have my shapes and lines going towards the two vanishing points in order for my design to be in a two-point perspective. In this sketch I was practicing that idea while getting used to how my shapes would be formed, in order to push the drawing towards the vanishing points.
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Sketch #3
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After I started looking at Queen Anne style homes I presented myself with a quick sketch of a home in that style while performing the correct style of the two-point perspective. After being more comfortable with doing this tasks I went forth with keeping the layout of the last sketch I made.
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Step-by-step of Process
Step #1-
Before making any structures use should make a vanishing point on the left and right side, from the start of your line that is drawn in the middle of your paper horizontally. And making a vertical line in the middle from the top down. Step #2- After I made both lines I started with my tower with the vertical line that I made. Step #3- Changing my building so that all the lines went towards the vanishing points I went with the same shapes in my last sketch and created a square base one on the left of the tower and two on the right. Step #4- Since I had a basic structure I went in with features of the house with windows, doors, porch, bushes, and a chimney. All lines still going to the vanishing point to add more to the house. Step #5- After having all the basic shapes and designs on the house I started to add texture and shading to create more dimension. |
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Skills & Techniques
After looking and creating the basic structures and features I had learned to not let every line that didn't seem accurate distract me. In the beginning I used that fault of having every single line be accurate distract me from moving on to the next step. After already re-doing my first draft I had seen my faults and when performing the second draft I didn't let it bother me too much because in the end I was able to fix most of my mistakes with erasing and shading. As long as the lines were laid down and went towards the vanishing points it was most likely accurate. And after doing textures, shading, and blending the design came out very well, without all doubt.
Compare & Contrast
While looking at Frank Lloyd Wright I mostly looked at the style of the windows, frames, and brackets. Which I had took into consideration of how many features I wanted to have recognized. Although Wright's building for the Fabyan's was not influenced by the Queen Anne style so I was mostly influenced by Europe's Richard Shaw. Shaw was an European architect was very famous for his Queen Anne- style homes and buildings in England. Which is why I mostly looked closely at how his buildings were produced and ensured that my design followed closely upon his style. Although most Queen Anne-style homes consist of a wrap around porch I had felt that because of the space in the Milwaukee area would not enable for the home to take up so much space, so I had left that concept out. In my piece I added modern and features that date back so it is still recognizable to my audience.
Reflection
Critique
After completing this design I grew more strongly again to making artwork with pencil and it's different forms. During the time of this year I had spent most of it making artwork with different materials, in which pencil was not often used to create any of my pieces specifically. So, getting to use different graphite had made me more involved this project than others because I feel as if using pencil is more my style than others. I had also learned my ability to do more with my pencil, with shading and adding textures. In my piece I hope I was able to prove that. While creating this piece I had felt comfortable with doing my project with pencil, but not confident enough with creating textures. Which I hope I will be able to explore more.
Experimentation
As I was creating this artwork I used a graphite pencil meant for creating designs and sketches for architecture. While I was doing so I experimented with how the lead was shaped and used different techniques to get the desired line and shading I wanted. With a sharpener and butter knife I shaped the lead to get more variety with the pencil. When I wanted to have more shading in my piece I would make sure that the lead on the pencil was not sharpened and had a smooth round tip. When I wanted texture into my work I sharpened the pencil or sharpened a shape with the butter knife depending on the style of the texture I wanted.
ACT Responses
What is the overall approach ( point of view) the author has regard to the topic of your inspiration?
The point of view the author has regard to the topic of my inspiration is to inform the viewer about who the artist is and how the building is presented, regarding historical references.
The point of view the author has regard to the topic of my inspiration is to inform the viewer about who the artist is and how the building is presented, regarding historical references.
- What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc, while you researched your inspiration?
- The generalizations I have concluded about the people and ideas while I researched had been that the architectures architects were doing with the buildings they created had been produced to influence the people in the community. Which I had been strongly influenced on because of my design.
- What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
- The central theme I had for my inspirational research was to use my pencil and ruler on my paper to present an architecture of a Queen Anne home hat will show my audience an old concept that is was formaly known and bring it back to modern age.
- What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
- The inferences I made while doing my research was mainly how other architects had also done some kind of relevant idea, but did a different form of architecture. In which I had thought was important for my use because I needed that kind of inference to build my inspiration.
Bibliography
“Queen Anne Style (1880-1910).” Queen Anne Style Architecture Facts and History | Guide to Architectural Styles | Home Remodeling & Architecture in Maryland (MD), Virginia (VA), Washington, DC, 29 June 2015, www.wentworthstudio.com/historic-styles/queen-anne/.
“Frank Lloyd Wright.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 13 Mar. 2018, www.biography.com/people/frank-lloyd-wright-9537511.
“Frank Lloyd Wright.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 13 Mar. 2018, www.biography.com/people/frank-lloyd-wright-9537511.