Casa Curutchet

The Casa Curutchet by Le Corbusier is located in La Plata, Argentina and is built on a diagonal road in La Plata's grid system. The house was completed in 1953 so it was much later than Corbusier's other houses such as the villa Savoye.

The Curutchet house was an unusual corbusian building as it was attached to existing buildings. Corbusier designed the house for Dr Curutchet so it has a doctors surgery on the first floor which he ramps up to. another feature of the house is that it was built round three trees one of them becomes a big feature of the roof terrace.

I have made a model of the Curutchet house on Sketch Up

This model can be down loaded from Google Warehouse

Hidden Sheffield

As you can probably tell from looking at my other posts im very interested in graffiti and I live in Sheffield so I thought that I would do a post about all the abandoned factories, back streets and cordoned of woods that are just crammed with graffiti. There are four places that im putting on the website which are spread all over sheffield.

Abandoned Warehouse, Abbeydale road.

 Graffiti by Phlegm

Graffiti by Kid Acne

Abandoned Buildings, St Vincents.

 Graffiti by Phlegm

Graffiti by Phlegm

abandoned mill & factory buildings, Cultural industries quarter. 

 Graffiti by Phlegm

Graffiti by Kid Acne

Woods, Lower Don Valley 

 Graffiti by Phlegm

Graffiti by Phlegm

Electronic art

Drawing on computers, tablets phones or any electronic device is becoming increasingly popular amongst artists partly because it’s a new idea that people are keen to try out and partly because its a lot easier than getting a paint set out and painting with water colours. The most popular platform for this art is the IPad as it’s big enough to get detail and small enough to carry around and of cause it’s very stylish. David Hockney is by far the most famous example of artists using IPad’s to create art he says, ” Who wouldn’t want one? Picasso or Van Gogh would of snapped one up”.

IPad still life by David Hockney

 Ipad town scape by David Hockney

 IPad still life by me

Ipad landscape by me

Miró at the yorkshire sculpture park

This exhibition of Miró at the yorkshire sculture park is the biggest exhibition of Miró sculture ever. He lived from 1893 to 1983 and as well as going to art school he also went to business school and got a job as a clark, he gave up business in his twenties and focused more on his art and became very interested in the works of Van Gogh and Cézanne. after Miró settled in Paris his work went through a transformation from the surreal to the abstract. Later in his carrear as he became more well known he started to build the sculptures that you'll find in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

 Miró sculpture at the YSP

  Miró sculpture at the YSP

  Miró painting at the YSP

 Miró sculpture at the YSP

David Walker

David Walker, Illustrator, artist and street artist has been painting for quite a while now while, however he only started decorating the streets 4 years ago. He already has works from his home town of London to New York City. David's older art mainly all black and white with a bit of pink But now as you can see it couldn't be more vibrent. I really like how he merges realism and abstraction to make very layered feel to his works. The amazing affects he not only in his street art but in his paintings too come because of his excellent use of spray cans never brushes.

 David walker print

 David Walker print

David walker street art

George Grosz

George Grosz / Groß was born in berlin in 1893 but died in 1959, he is best known for his drawings which he maneges to get a great sense of character in a small amount of lines. He was greatly influenced expressionism and futurism with his line drawings that he sometimes developed more with water colour. The subject of his art was often 1920's Germany (mostly Berlin), his works were considered by some as "anti German". This was because of his drawing of wounded soldiers, prostitutes and crime. When the Nazi's got into power they burnt a number of his works because of the the certain things he depicted.

 Grosz, pen and ink

  Grosz, pen and ink

 Grosz water colour

 Grosz water colour

Trajan's market

Trajan's market probably my favourite piece of Roman/Greek Architecture it was commissioned by the emperor of rome (Trajan) and completed around 110 AD. There are two parts to the building, a semi circular forum and a shopping mall on a higher level. Trajan's market was also one of a kind as it was probably the worlds first shopping mall, it was so well built that over 2000 years later you can still walk around it especially the shopping mall.

 Inside the shopping mall

 The forum

The forum