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    ALAN DUNLOP ARCHITECT - Sketch Book

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    This document provides a selection of over 400 sketches and drawings from renowned architect Alan Dunlop over the last ten years. Dunlop values hand drawing as an essential skill that allows for creative thinking and design development. He encourages students to practice hand drawing and sees it as an authentic way to develop and communicate design ideas, though acknowledges computers provide ease and flexibility. The quality and influence of hand drawings is exemplified in the work of architect Paul Rudolph and his students at Yale.

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    This document provides a selection of over 400 sketches and drawings from renowned architect Alan Dunlop over the last ten years. Dunlop values hand drawing as an essential skill that allows for creative thinking and design development. He encourages students to practice hand drawing and sees it as an authentic way to develop and communicate design ideas, though acknowledges computers provide ease and flexibility. The quality and influence of hand drawings is exemplified in the work of architect Paul Rudolph and his students at Yale.

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    This document provides a selection of over 400 sketches and drawings from renowned architect Alan Dunlop over the last ten years. Dunlop values hand drawing as an essential skill that allows for creative thinking and design development. He encourages students to practice hand drawing and sees it as an authentic way to develop and communicate design ideas, though acknowledges computers provide ease and flexibility. The quality and influence of hand drawings is exemplified in the work of architect Paul Rudolph and his students at Yale.

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    ALAN DUNLOP ARCHITECT - Sketch Book

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    Erika Nadal
    This document provides a selection of over 400 sketches and drawings from renowned architect Alan Dunlop over the last ten years. Dunlop values hand drawing as an essential skill that allows for creative thinking and design development. He encourages students to practice hand drawing and sees it as an authentic way to develop and communicate design ideas, though acknowledges computers provide ease and flexibility. The quality and influence of hand drawings is exemplified in the work of architect Paul Rudolph and his students at Yale.

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    ALAN DUNLOP ARCHITECT

    A small selection from


    over 400 sketches and drawings from the last ten years.

    Sketch Book

    " the hand-drawing is the place, where thinking and making are joined together...
    Robert McCarter
    No computer generated image gets close to the spirit of a great drawing.

    My interest in hand drawing has grown since I first started teaching in schools in the UK and the USA. I am saddened by the reluctance of most students to draw and to practise this essential skill. I encourage students to draw and to keep everything. It is important to experiment and to find your own style. I have had some success with students who have retreated from drawing and returned to hone that skill. For others though, there is a lack of capacity and a reluctance to attack the craft that amounts to a phobia. My own career is predicated on producing pencil, pen and ink drawings and sketches and I find that many clients are attracted to the authenticity of this approach. I am not a Luddite, I recognise the ease and flexibility that comes from computer but this should not be the first and only means of initiating design or delivering a project. In the last few years Ive become very familiar with the work of Paul Rudloph. Rudolph was a brilliant architect and a master draughtsman. He saw architecture as "a personal effort" and articulated his ideas in complex, richly textured and intricately detailed drawings. Like pupils of a renaissance studio his students at Yale were encouraged to fill in elaborate texture and shadow for the master, sometimes working through the night in preparation for presentations to clients the next day. In response, they included their names in the drawing of bushes and trees, leaf and grass. Doubtless laborious and probably tedious but worth it. Compare the output of Rudolph and his students of the Yale School of Architecture with Gwathmys lifeless, computer generated rendering of his extension to Rudolphs Yale building. The former will stands as a testimony to the architects art for years to come, the latter, instantly forgettable and only worth recording as a comparison. I sense though that things may be beginning to change. I am more and more being asked to lecture on my drawings as essential elements of built work. Most recently, the biggest cheer in the University of Washingtons lecture hall went up when I said Sketch Up was the spawn of the devil. The University of Washington is where Frank Ching taught for many years and a school where hand drawing and craft is considered very important but even there they find it hard to pull students away from the computer. The answer is to show that there is a real opportunity to communicate through drawing and that craft can be the basis of dynamic and influential design. Believe me, there is challenge in acquiring this essential skill but any aspiring student or architect can find joy and reward in conquering the blank page.

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