Exploring by Pencil

EXPLORING BY PENCIL vicenza 2010 nicole keroack

ENFRAMING ...challenges him to bring forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering...

-martin heidigger

enframing closes and opens space and structures our experience of the built world. architecture can act as a frame, or it can be framed by the world around it.

venezia campo dei teatro fenice_06_20_10

venezia biennale canal_06_22_10

verona teatro romano_06_03_10

padova cloister_06_02_10

verona scarpa stair at castelvecchio_06_08_10

verona castelvecchio_06_08_10

treviso view from loggia_06_12_10

venezia santa maria e donato_06_13_10

venezia gheto nuovo_06_20_10

venezia gheto nuovo_06_20_10

vicenza chiesa dei corso palladio_06_02_10

vicenza monte berico from scalletta_06_10_10

bologna chiesa_06_28_10

CONSTRUCTED SPACES AND GEOMETRY SACRED AND SECULAR TYPES Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appearan entire and complete body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.

-andrea palladio

volumes are organized into specific named forms like the villa, baptistry, and basilica.

vicenza teatro olympico_06_23_10

vicenza teatro olympico_06_23_10

veneto villa caldogno_06_16_10

veneto villa caldogno_06_16_10

veneto villa poiana_06_09_10

veneto villa poiana_06_09_10

ravenna san vitale church and baptistry_06_04_10

padova baptistry_06_03_10

ravenna s. apollinare nuovo_06_04_10

verona basilica_06_04_10

venezia s. giorgio_06_14_10

venezia s. giorgio_06_14_10

venice chiesa_06_13_10

vicenza palazzo barbaran da porto_06_03_10

vicenza s. maria aracelli_06_10_10

vicenza s. maria aracelli_06_10_10

veneto villa godi_06_16_10

BUILDING AND LANDSCAPE Catherine’s face was just like the landscape--shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient...

- emily bronte, wuthering heights

patterns are made in the interactions between a structure and its siting. harmonies, varieties, and dissonances.

vicenza villa capra la rotunda_05_26_10

veneto villa emo_05_30_10

venezia view from via giuseppi garibaldi_06_22_10

venezia view from via giuseppi garibaldi_06_22_10

venezia view from peggy guggenheim museum_06_14_10

cinque terre vernazza harbor_06_19_10

cinque terre manarola cliffs_06_19_10

cinque terre manarola harbor_06_19_10

padova statue in botanical gardens_06_04_10

verona giardino giusti_06_08_10

veneto fresco in villa barbaro_06_01_10

FIGURATION It was stated‌that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:—the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

-ruskin, seven lamps of architecture

architecture demands to be occupied by the figure, but it can be figurative as well. the silhouette of a tower against the sky acts as a woman backlit in the sunlight.

vicenza festa della republica in piazza dei signori_06_02_10

vicenza festa della republica_06_02_10

vicenza festa della republica_06_02_10

vicenza festa della republica_06_02_10

padova basilica nuovo_06_04_10

veneto hercules and centaur at museo canova_06_01_10

veneto fresco in villa barbaro_06_01_10

vicenza market day in piazetta palladio_06_03_10

vicenza piazzetta palladio_06_03_10

prague towers in old town square_06_29_10

prague astronomical clock in old town square_06_29_10

vicenza tower bases in piazza dei signori_06_17_10

VENETO LIVING: VICENZA’s PIAZZA DEI SIGNORI AND BASILICA PALLADIANA Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

-byron, childe harold

some places we simply return to again and again, and we learn something new each time we visit.

vicenza piazza dei signori_06_17_10

sample vicenza text piazza dei signori_06_23_10

vicenza corner of basilica palladiana_06_15_10

vicenza basilica palladiana_06_15_10

vicenza market day in piazza dei signori_06_03_10

vicenza piazzetta palladio_06_23_10

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it’s not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

-lawrence halprin