Unit 1 – A Tale of 3 Cities

Alex Kaiser, Trevor Flynn & Anderson Inge

The Tale of 3 Cities discovers and constructs new realities as an unfolding set of “cities” that weave together the past, present and future. Forces that shape past and future narratives are extracted and explored using drawing methods that are both explorative and experimental, digital and freehand.

The resulting drawings will become the “cities” where we will discover architecture, people and their stories. Each city will have a mentor that provides stimulus and differentiation – an architect (Soane), a writer (Calvino), and an artist (Piranesi).


Unit 1 group photo


Unit Brief – A Tale of 3 Cities


Composite sketches


Overlaid sketches


Drawing supplies


Ghita, Niels and Maya hard at work


Connective spaces


Modelling structural elements


Drawing the city


View from the top of Centre Point tower


Unit 1 appropriates the unit space before the Interim Jury


Oscar traces maps of the city


Havishya and Nahla draw out their visions for a new city


Klaudia and Maria sketching in the studio


Ian’s incredible sketch of London from the top of Centre Point


Sketches and storyboards aplenty


Montage drawing


Trevor instructs Ghita on sketching axonometrics


View of the Church of St Giles


Trevor advises Maya on her drawings while Dima looks on


Hatching the city


Dima creates a hybridized image/ drawing


Sketches from Niels’ sketchbook


Sketching in and around London


Unit 1 in discussion on Day 2


Perspective and Depth Construction studies


Unit 1 Montaging views and sketches together


Storyboards for the city


Digital Painting


Constructing final drawings through sketches


Looking through a three week body of work


A composite of sketches, photoshop and computer drawings – the third city.

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