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Hunterian Art Gallery Mackintosh Travel Sketches Lindisfarne Castle Holy Island
Architecture | 28.07.2014

(smow) blog compact: Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Travel Sketches at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow

One of the most mundane, yet important, aspects of any designer or architect's training is sketching existing buildings and products. Observing. Studying. Forming. Learning. Developing. Hans J Wegner, for example, drew, drew and redrew the furniture in the Danish Design Museum Copenhagen, Louis I. Kahn spent his formative years sketching the ruins of European churches and cathedrals, while a young Le Corbusier regularly crossed the Swiss-Italian Border to undertake study tours of locations

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