It is a final project that brings together several smaller projects from the entire term.  At the beginning of the term each student selected one Architect to research and ultimately represent in  a mock up of a two page magazine article.

I selected Kendrick Bangs Kellogg. I interviewed him and visited him at the site of the school he is currently building. I wrote the article within this project based on this research.

The  next project was to understand his design process and overall design inspiration. This gave us practice in analyzing designs .  We used a quote from the architect and placed the quote within a simple line drawing that would illustrate the architect's design concepts.  I placed this quote/line project within the mock magazine article as a subheading to his name.  I used wavy undulating lines to represent the curves often found in Kellogg's design. The curves are inspired by Nature and the Ocean. 

Next we did a realistic portrait of the Architect. It is pencil on illustration board. The pencil could not be blended. It was teaching us how to work with a pencil, how to work with different papers and how to use values to create form. I placed my portrait of Kendrick Kellogg facing into the article to relate to the rest of the project's design.
After the Architect's  portrait, we each did a rendering of one of the Architect's structures.  I choose Kellogg's Wedding Chapel in Japan. I was able to show texture, perspective, form , light and shadow. It was  created in pencil on illustration board. My wedding chapel rendering is the main focus of the mock magazine article.

Then we were asked to research a variety of objects that  might be typically found within one of the Architect's structures. We rendered these  on a variety of papers and markers. These drawings were rendered in color to teach us how to use color to create light and shadow. I rendered a chair, stained glass window, drain grate, etc . I placed these drawings around the edge of the article.

The last mini project was to use white pencil on black illustration board to illustrate one item that might represent an inspiration object to the Architect. I drew a shell. This taught us to draw the light, rather than the shadow.

All of these projects taught us different techniques of drawings and trained our eye to make judgment decisions about color, value and composition. These projects also assisted us in understanding the style , inspiration, and design process of each of our architects.

The final aspect of this project was to assemble these smaller projects in a cohesive mock magazine two page layout.  This layout was also required to represent the chosen Architect. I used wavy lines to form the foundation of the layout to once again emphasize the fact that Kellogg likes to use the wavy movement as found in nature, especially the ocean.