Own work: Current sketches

     I'm currently making preparatory sketches for a painting of the entrance façade of Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton.  Wu Hall dates from 1983 and is the work of Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, an important piece of Postmodernism in architecture.  The building as a whole seems heavily indebted to British architecture of the fin-du-siècle and the Edwardian age; particularly, I think, the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens, and Charles Holden.  The entrance façade is startling when the rest of the building is red brick; it seems to reference the sort of patterns Lutyens used and also the facades of Italian renaissance churches  with their extensive marble plaquing.  Doing some research on another project yesterday, I had reason to look at the Sebastiano Serlio's book 'Regole Generali di Architetura' of 1537 published in Venice.  I wonder if the illustrations (woodcuts) in that book, and others, were an influence on this extraordinary facade? 

    Mixed media: biro, felt-tip, pencil & wax crayon.