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The Geometry of Living - Towers

Drawing
(etching on zinc)
 
“My ambition is not simply to build architecturally, but to build socialistically as well.” [Berthold Lubetkin, architect, who designed Cranbrook Estate]
 
The Geometry of Living series, inspired initially by the Cranbrook Estate in Bethnal Green, London (but as well many others), contemplate functionality of the modern estate architecture. It is a reflection on the relatively rapid transformation of modernist housing architecture - from grand social ideology and middle class dream housing in the sixties into, only half a century later, council estates populated by the poorest fraction of society, which very often become crime and drug hotspots.
The Geometry of Living - Tower 3
The Geometry of Living - Tower 2
The Geometry of Living - Tower 1
The Geometry of Living (test print - etching)
The Geometry of Living (test print - etching and aquatint)

for the 2nd phase of the project (aquatint) please visit link below:
 
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Geometry-of-Living-Towers/7644681

for the final stage of this project (hand printed offset photo litho) please visit:
 
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Geometry-of-Living-Towers-(Litho)-Exhibition/9066537


 
 
Selection of sketches:

for the 2nd phase of the project (aquatint) please visit link below:
 
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Geometry-of-Living-Towers/7644681
 
for the final stage of this project (hand printed offset photo litho) please visit:
 
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Geometry-of-Living-Towers-(Litho)-Exhibition/9066537
 
 
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The Geometry of Living - Towers
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The Geometry of Living - Towers

The Geometry of Living is a series of etchings, which contemplate functionality of the modern estate architecture.

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