Francis ching sketches3/17/2024 ![]() ![]() Ching’s vantage point in his sketch is very likely taken at a table in the outdoor café beneath the windows of the studio that my fellow classmates and I called “home base” for our semester of study. Ching sketched, but perhaps some classmates will see this post of mine and remember the view I’m including below? It’s the very small Piazza Sant’ Appollonia, which is connected to Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, the piazza where Mr. I don’t in those sketchbooks have the same perspective that Mr. I recognized it instantly, and by force of nostalgia I went searching for my old Rome sketchbooks. What a thrill I had to find his sketch in Rome, of the church in the piazza where I studied as a student many years ago (that’s the sketch above). I scrolled and clicked through the blog again recently. I have always admired his drawings, and that admiration gets amplified when I scroll through his blog posts, which are populated with countless of his urban sketches from around the world. So you might then imagine my delight when, while browsing the internet one Saturday morning, I discovered Mr. I recommend it to every budding architect. It’s more of a memento than a resource to me now, but I still have a copy of his “Building Construction Illustrated” within reach of my desk. Countless students of architecture have found guidance in the drawings and writings of this person over the last four decades. Posted by Joe Bergin on in Drawing and Sketching, History | No Commentsįrancis D.K. ![]()
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