With December here I hope to end the year the way I started, resurrecting this daily blog as a means of looking back on past work, reflecting on readings and essays, and presenting new drawings. Today is a look back on a series of meditation spaces, designed with bamboo in mind (however most of the... Continue Reading →
Various sketches of meditation huts designed out of bamboo
More sketches from the "Design Thinking" sketching/field trip class. The first shows an adjustable connection to a modern piece of furniture, in this case a clamp as part of a free standing lamp. The second sketch is of a hand rail detail at the John Paul II Center in Northeast DC. Both drawings make use... Continue Reading →
In undergrad at CUArch students used to take a sketching field trip class during the first semester of their second year. (The program has since been reshuffled a few times, it is hard to tell which classes have changed and which have simply had their names changed.) The ambiguously titled "Design Thinking" had Eric Jenkins... Continue Reading →
The Slingshot is a daily planner with an anarchist theme citing historical episodes of radical protest or revolution on each day of the year. A friend of mine had one and used it religiously, but I never bothered to track one down for my own use. I did need something that could fit in my pocket, so... Continue Reading →
Yesterday's post about Camp Nou and today's victory in El Clasico made me think back on my semester in Barcelona and the traveling I got to do while there. Here are a few of the highlights from the sketchbook:
Chefchaouen is a small city in northern Morocco with a breathtakingly beautiful old city, where whitewashed walls are covered with indigo dyes to create a blue labyrinth. The history of the city includes a sizable Jewish and Morisco quarter during the 15th century, and Spanish occupation in the 20th century. This history created an urban... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 