MIAD Collaboration- Architecture 2point perspective
Exhibition Text:
Exhibition text: Creating a modern school in an adverse neighborhood to inspire the people and give them hope for a better lifestyle. Using Frank Lloyd Wright as an inspiration is very important to me as I had the same experience as a kid with his pieces passing by them and not really knowing much about architecture or how much it affects us until now. Using straight lines to create a very minimalist and modern look but including windows with a thick border to enhance Frank Lloyd Wright's designs.
Exhibition text: Creating a modern school in an adverse neighborhood to inspire the people and give them hope for a better lifestyle. Using Frank Lloyd Wright as an inspiration is very important to me as I had the same experience as a kid with his pieces passing by them and not really knowing much about architecture or how much it affects us until now. Using straight lines to create a very minimalist and modern look but including windows with a thick border to enhance Frank Lloyd Wright's designs.
Inspiration:
When this project was first introduced to me I immediately knew what I wanted to do for the piece. There had been several buildings being built around by my neighborhood and I liked how it changed the feel of it. It went from a place that looked abandoned and very poor to more modern and ready for change. It gave the people hope for better lives and to show them how we can change to place to make it look better. All three of the pictures above are buildings that I pass on a daily basis and admire so much for the fact that as a kid I didn't pay so much attention to architecture but soon realized how much it affects us as people. For this piece I wanted to do just that, make people feel the way I felt in particular so we can make a better place to live for our new generations to come.
I decided to draw a modern minimalist school in a very adverse neighborhood like the one I grew up in. This was inspired by the very school St. Augustine that I watched the surroundings on before and after. Passing through that street felt completely different once it was built and more students were going in and out of it. In a way it felt like a street I would feel comfortable in walking alone or with a friend without having to worry and watch over my back constantly.
When I knew what I wanted to draw I immediately started out with my sketches and came across the idea of the houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, I remember passing by and seeing the commotion that people made over houses and wondered as a kid "What's the big deal? It's just a new house?" until I now did the research on it and I realized how fascinating it really is. I wanted to incorporate some of his art choices into my piece because I felt that it would make my piece look more like it belongs in Milwaukee but still look ascetically different to the tourists. Lastly I used the Northwestern bank as my last inspiration because of the materials that were used for the building. Having a building out of steel and clear blue windows an thin white paneling would really enforce the look of modernism.
I decided to draw a modern minimalist school in a very adverse neighborhood like the one I grew up in. This was inspired by the very school St. Augustine that I watched the surroundings on before and after. Passing through that street felt completely different once it was built and more students were going in and out of it. In a way it felt like a street I would feel comfortable in walking alone or with a friend without having to worry and watch over my back constantly.
When I knew what I wanted to draw I immediately started out with my sketches and came across the idea of the houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, I remember passing by and seeing the commotion that people made over houses and wondered as a kid "What's the big deal? It's just a new house?" until I now did the research on it and I realized how fascinating it really is. I wanted to incorporate some of his art choices into my piece because I felt that it would make my piece look more like it belongs in Milwaukee but still look ascetically different to the tourists. Lastly I used the Northwestern bank as my last inspiration because of the materials that were used for the building. Having a building out of steel and clear blue windows an thin white paneling would really enforce the look of modernism.
Planning
Before starting this piece I did some research on different types of houses and attributes that go with them. For example the Chicago Window which are typically ground level and have a thick frame.
Small sketches with reasoning next to them.
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Trying to see what it would look like if I made the front entrance look a lot different with some glass going inside and out in a zigzag motion,
My final sketch on what the piece would look like.
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Process
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Tools Used
Experimentation
Some of the things that I experimented with were some of the windows in the second building, I wanted them to stick out of the building to give it more dimension and not so plain and boring. But what I was noticing is that there were too many lines going in the same direction so I decided to make the borders of the windows a lot thicker to stick out and resemble the ones on the other building. Another thing that I had to experiment with was the door on the right side next to the welcome sign. I wanted something to balance out the rest of the page so I decided on having a small entrance on the side of the building and most of it being covered with concrete and some large windows placed on the front put in some light.
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Critique & Reflection
For this piece I really wanted to get my point across that the school was placed in a bad neighborhood to make it stick out, and not only that but give hope to the people living there that things can change and improve the new generations. If I was to do this project again I would add in some houses in the background to show the difference in them and the school. I could make the building look more realistic with better shading and little people drawn to show the scale of the school.
Connection to Act1) Clearly explain how you are able to to identify the cause-affect relationships between your inspiration and its affect upon your artwork.
In my inspirations, their causes that affected them to create their pieces were due to the fact that I had the inspiration in my face ever since I was a kid but never really payed that much attention to it till now. 2)What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration? The overall approach regarding the topic of my inspiration was to show others how I plan to make a school for anyone in a not so good neighborhood. Not only helping it look more appealing but giving the people living around there more hope for a change. 3)What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration? The generalizations and conclusion I've discovered throughout my research was the fact that artists find different ways to portray their feelings in such an intriguing way and Wright did it in his architecture pieces. 4) What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research? The central idea around my inspirational research The central idea around my inspirational research was on how to create a school in an adverse neighborhood to make a change not only for how the neighborhood would look but rather the mindsets of the people living there to give them hope. 5)What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research? The kinds of inferences that I made while doing my research was on how so many neighborhoods are so different and not just because of the people that live there rather than how the buildings are built. |
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