Giorgio Vasari wrote that drawing is the father of the three arts, architecture, sculpture, and painting, in his "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects," also known as "The Lives of the Artists." For 500 years painting was thought to be a sister art of architecture, complimentary and relevant, with common concerns: line, shape, color, form, space, depth, texture, narrative, representation. And the training of painters and architects had some common ground. Today, halfway through the second century of specialization and the academies, very few architects paint anymore. Many architects sketch and draw, and some make watercolors while travelling, often very beautiful, but few make traditional paintings as part of their artistic practice. There are some. Le Corbusier. Julian de la Fuente. Michael Graves. Anthony Ames.
This slide show includes most of the paintings I have done over the course of 15 years. The paintings are compositions, facades, urban walls. Some are genre paintings - landscapes, still lifes, maps. Some are "poster portraits" - compositions of elements that represent friends or colleagues. These paintings are influenced by, and pay homage to, painting-makers that inspire me, including Gerald Murphy, Robert Slutzky, Roy Lichtenstein, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaus, Aldo Rossi, John Hejduk, and Richard Diebenkorn.
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