Summer School arts & crafts
Gu Daqing: Seeing, Thinking, Drawing
July 6 - July 18, 2015 Use your hands!
One of the most powerful approaches of this unique programme was that learning was not limited to the computer and the classroom. Due to this, the use of the hands were an important aspect in the summer school programme and achieved in the week of arts and crafts in a different way. The first arts week aimed to improve sketching, drawing and sculpturing as a direct medium of designing and communicating. The second, crafts week, enhanced the understanding of materials and their manufacturing methods in scale 1:1.
The two weeks have been supplemented by various visits to artists’ studios as well as to related contemporary architectural sights. It was a great pleasure to see how the students enjoyed to sketch, draw, work and interact with local, well established craftspeople during the programme and how big progress they made through the experience in scale 1:1. The final exhibition at the Werkraum Bregenzerwald summed up the results of these two weeks, impressively shown by the temporary hotel rooms from the crafts week and the drawing of the arts week. The results also demonstrated that the summer school was integrated in the daily life and local architecture of a region well known for its high level of craft traditions and careful use of resources, both major attitudes of sustainability. The use of hands will also be the main focus of our next summer school 2016.
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Udo Rabensteiner: From Sketch to Sculpture
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For the first time, the University of Liechtenstein offered a summer school whose aim was to strengthen and enhance artistic as well as handicraft aspects in education. This summer school had been established as a cooperation between the Institute of Architecture and Planning and the Werkraum Bregenzerwald in Austria. The programme consisted of two weeks altogether which were dedicated to one week of arts and one week of crafts that the participants had both to attend.
Victor Olmos: The Real and the Virtual Pen
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that‘s us!
Eric, Hong Kong
Carrot, Hong Kong
Howard and Calvin, Hong Kong
Graham, Canada
Alice, Hong Kong
Ciara, Hong Kong
Maria-Iva, Great Britain & Sofia, Liechtenstein
Susanna, United States
Maria Paula, Colombia
Daniel, United States
Eric and Michael, Hong Kong
Jenny, United States
1st week
victor olmos arts
the real and the virtual pen
„With a pen on a tablet, a step forward in architectural drawing. The aim is to awake the students of architecture to the relevance of hand drawing as a great tool in all phases of designing and building, either with the simplest pencil on a paper or with an E-pen on the latest tablet.“ Victor Olmos lives and works in Spain, Austria and Switzerland. All the portrait drawings for this brochure were done by him. Muchas Gracias Victor!
This workshop has consisted basically in making drawings with a tablet, an astonishing and powerful new tool available to everyone’s creativity. Drawing on tablets needs no other skills but to trace lines and colourful shapes with a pen on a surface… as it ever used to be. We see that this means that digital devices are indeed moving towards the analogical world, what we interpreted as a step forward. Drawing with tablets is not far away from drawing with a pencil on a notebook. During this week we made several exercises with the aim of opening new fields rather than going deeper into them. For example: individual and collective portraits, architectural volumes and interior spaces, graphic shape compositions, studying colour and contrast between light and shadow, drawing nature landscapes, analysing existing designs and proposing new ones.
As a transversal experience of the class, we organized an everyday critic session on printed outputs, to practice public presentations and to develop criteria for designing. Two films about art creation: “Le mistère Picasso” (1952) and “El sol del Membrillo” (1990), have been shown in the workshop.
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Maria Paula, Colombia
Howard, Hong Kong
Ciara, Hong Kong
Michael, Hong Kong
Calvin, Hong Kong
Ciara, Hong Kong
Eric, Hong Kong
Michael, Hong Kong
Eric, Hong Kong
In times of ongoing digitalisation the work with our hands is losing its value more and more. Through the focus on our hands, this summer school tried to approach one essential part of being: modelling and sculpting. The work with clay is a proper way to spatial thinking. For almost all team members, this was the first contact with this material. It was the beginning of a promising friendship that showed us the importance of arts & crafts.
1st week
udo rabensteiner arts
from sketch to sculpture
„I believe the sculpture follows a drawing, and vice versa. This means the third dimension emerges from the two-dimensionality. In order to achieve this one needs a profound understanding and knowledge of the sculpture as well as of the drawing.“ Udo Rabensteiner lives and works in Austria. He‘s an artist and sculptor.
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gu daqing arts
seeing thinking drawing
„This course is an investigation of visual form through a process of seeing, thinking and drawing. It intends to develop a deeper visual perception by enriching student‘s visual experience, to introduce them to various visual phenomena, to encourage them to explore their personal living environment.“ Gu Daqing lives and works in Hong Kong. He‘s a professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong/ School of Architecture
The main objective of the course “Seeing architecture through drawing” is to introduce to the students a set of sketching methods so that they are able to observe certain formal aspects of architecture. These sketching methods are taught in three categories: line, value and colour.
lar visual aspect. For instance, light and shadow drawing focuses on the perception of light and shadow and modelling drawing focuses on the issue of solidity and plasticity.
From the third day on, the students began to explore colour media, especially watercolour techniques. A successful watercolour drawing depends on four On the first day, the students abilities: the ability to capture the learned four different drawing form in perspective, the ability to techniques relating to line, nadefine the light and dark relatimely contour drawing, structural onship, the ability to depict colour drawing, perspective drawing and drawing from negative space, each relationship, and the ability to use watercolour medium. In a way, the of which addresses a particular visual aspect. For instance, structu- watercolour drawing is built upon the previous two studies on line ral drawing focuses on the geometric organisation of the objects, and value. and drawing from negative space As shown from the works of the focuses on the space between students, they have done a great elements. job within such a short period. I hope they can continue to practice On the second day, the students these drawing methods and to be learned three drawing techniques more sensitive about form, space, relating to value or light and dark relations, namely light and shadow, light, texture, and colour, these essential visual aspects for archimodelling drawing, and texture, each of which addresses a particu- tectural design.
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Sofia, Liechtenstein
Graham, Canada
Sofia, Liechtenstein
Maria-Iva, Great Britain
Graham, Canada
Sofia, Liechtenstein
Graham, Canada
Maria-Iva, Great Britain
Maria-Iva, Great Britain
excursion day > House Luzi, Switzerland Peter Zumthor > House Beckel, Switzerland Gian Caminada > Atelier Bardill, Switzerland Valerio Olgiati > Islamic Cemetery, Austria Bernardo Bader > Angelika Kaufmann Museum, Austria Dietrich/Untertrifaller
excursions during arts week > Werdenberg Castle, Switzerland > Feldkirch, Austria > Vaduz, Liechtenstein > Sareiserjoch, Liechtenstein
Andreas Mohr is an architect and designer who lives and works in Austria. He is a member of the Werkraum Bregenzerwald and was the tutor of the students during the construction of the temporary hotel.
2nd week
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the temporary hotel
Marianna Moosbrugger runs a felt studio in the Bregenzerwald, Austria. Thanks to her, the two students of the felt workshop had the chance to design and produce unique felt objects.
2nd week
marianna moosbrugger crafts
felt workshop
excursion during crafts week and vernissage > bus:stop Krumbach, Austria > vernissage at the Werkraum Bregenzerwald
Summer School Arts & Crafts 2015 Hands on in Scale 1:1 University of Liechtenstein Institute of Architecture and Planning 07/2015