Sketching to Capture the Essence of an Iconic Design

Looking at the photograph of an Iconic building is not the same as seeing and experiencing the building at the site.  You may have taken the photo yourself but looking at the photo sometime later will hardly bring back the excitement of the first encounter.  Visiting and touring Frank Gehry’s iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, I could “feel” the energy of the design as I wandered through the interior spaces, the roof garden, and around its exterior.  

Like “fluttering-sails” on a magnificent tall ship the “billowing” surface of the façade radiate synergy between reality and perception.  The outline of each “sail” described the layers of the building’s complex enclosure, but the “joints” of the titanium panels accentuated the expressive “motion” of the iconic design.  Bringing the mental consciousness of the design from my perception into a final, quick, on-site, hand-drawn, sketch was the driving force behind the passion of my efforts.