What’s probably the most interesting thing about research is realizing how much you don’t know. This is interesting because there seems to be a generation gap of architectural history. As architecture students, it seems we often fall victim of researching architects within the last few decades. Obviously, the big names will always show up in history class. I think what happens is you get a lost knowledge or skill that surpasses into today’s digital practice as a sort of dishonesty. more on this later..
A short bio, but the architect that I want to point out was William Walcot. Walcot was one of the most celebrated architectural draughtsmen of the early 20th century. He studied at the Imperial Academy and The Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He soon was producing presentation drawings for architects and exhibited at The Royal Academy. Later in his life, he concentrated on graphic art and created dramatic reconstructions of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian architecture. After his practice collapsed during the second World War, he committed suicide in 1943.
Note: that the images below were drawn as small as 3”x 5”. I’ll be sure to post more as research develops. Images from artstor.org.
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One of my favourite artists (about to add another of his etchings to my website)at
http://www.barhammoneyfineart.co.uk
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