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The Art of Building through drawing, painting and engraving
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During the classes you will learn about the art of building through drawing, painting, engraving and sculpting.

By drawing you will learn the effect of a monument according to its place, for drawing appears to be the best means of developing intelligence and judgment. You will also learn about orientation, light and shade. You will inscribe in your mind the methods used by the masters to produce the desired effect on a given place under particular conditions. You will analyse the fundamental principles, the rules of proportion, those gentle relationships between the parts and the whole, which the ancients gave to the orders in ancient buildings, to those of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

To communicate your thoughts clearly, to record your observations and to find the reason for all things, you will draw, paint and engrave from nature. Drawing is a language, a means of expression and communication, an art that complements and is indispensable to all professions, such as speaking and writing.

COURSE CONTENT

Subjects: Architecture, urban planning, nature, history of architecture, history of cities, building techniques, natural materials, sacred geometry, decoration, ornamentation and many more!

Techniques: Creation of natural paints (watercolour and gouache - access to a kitchen), sketching, perspective, sacred geometry, measured drawing, watercolour, gouache, charcoal and engraving on stoneware or wood.
Extra information
Bring HB, 2B and 6B pencils and a sketchbook
Location
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At student's location :
  • Around Bruges, Belgium
  • Around Brussels, Belgium
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At teacher's location :
  • Sint-Annarei, Bruges, Belgium
About Me
I defend, practice and teach a beautiful, human and sustainable architecture and the crafts associated with it.
I plead for the rehabilitation of reason in the art of building. The attachment to history is not retrograde, on the contrary: the most fruitful traditions were all born from a U-turn. Guided by reason and based on history, I extract from these traditions their primordial principles in order to draw from them a concrete and sincere application suitable for today's architecture.
Education
Master in Architecture at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design in London, UK
Master in Art and Architecture - Thesis: "How building last? Toward timeless architecture" in London, UK
Experience / Qualifications
Ornamentalist and builder - Decoration, ceramics, new construction, transformation, rehabilitation and restoration of buildings in Belgium and France.

Professor and President of La Table Ronde de l'Architecture asbl
Age
Children (7-12 years old)
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Duration
90 minutes
120 minutes
The class is taught in
French
English
Availability of a typical week
(GMT -04:00)
New York
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