Architecture is the canvas for my art Bill Wishner Today we celebrated "architectural photography" and Steve's new position "Urban Design Director for the Central District of Detroit Planning and Development Department"...the sum of which means he is leaving us...but he will return periodically to Pasadena and f8. Steve was kind enough to be our photography critic and commentator for the works we showed this morning. Virtually all who attended, camped into our Jones space contributed with either pictures, comments or both. As usual, despite writing like mad getting your thoughts on paper, I'm sure I failed to capture every comment...you really had to be there to fully enjoy f8 Pasadena today. Above are some examples of the pictures at the meeting...there were more on flash drives and Scott brought in several framed architectural pictures...and there were some I just don't have at the time this blog was published.
Here are some comments...in no particular order: John...my iPhone pictures (not published) reflect contrasts in architectural styles...old vs new. Jim....influenced by Walker Evans...and architectural anachornisms Howard...drawn to the abstract of architecture Charley...drawn to pictorial power of steel and glass; artistic composition; molecular architecture Rene...finding architecture on the internet and books Carel...movement in architectural photography shows procession, space and access Angelo...because I like it...arches provide compositional elements that mirror experience Bill...classic architecture keeps cropping up in new architectural forms eg pyramids and the I.M. Pei pyramid at the Louvre...old and new stand together and compliment one another Steve... new forms have only recently been possible with use of CAD; we're drawn to the old via it;s history but new architecture has no such history. religious architecture highlighted the power and authority of the church use of humans in architectural photography gives us scale and proportion influence of the client in architecture; influence of society...eg Russian architecture in Cuba the use of white space in architectural photography use of 3D as a promotional tool both in design and appreciation of architecture form follows function in architecture there was so much more to our discussion on saturday and everybody contributed cogent content to the discussion...thank you Steve for your intellectual leadership and come back to Pasadena soon.
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