THREE TOURS | KEN ROBERTS 2018

Conceptually the objective for this illustration is to depict to the tallest international structures throughout history within the context of their landscapes, placing the oldest structure , Great Pyramid Giza in the background with the tallest modern structure, Burj Khalifa, in the foreground, presenting countries of prominant influence through out history, starting with mesopatamia and ancient Egypt, France with the Eiffel Tower, the United States of America with One World Trade Center, Shanghai Tower, and lastly Dubais Burj Khalifa.

By placing each monumental structure in the same orientation then dlineating the surrounding landscape within the same plane and scale, an appearent juxtaposition in hieght, relationship of the tall strutucture with its city scape, and progression of built human civilization over time would be caught in one overlayed image.

For purposes of the professional submission the 2018 Ken Roberts Memorial Dilineation Competition, honoring the late Ken Roberts Architect and producer of ink perspective drawings and renderings, the concept was reduced to three overlays of the modern skyscrapers of the three largest economic powers of the world, produced freehanded in archival ink on vellum, framed in a black bordered wooden frame, and later donated to the AIA Dallas Fall 2019 ROCKITECTURE Art Fundraiser.

THREE TOUR | FINAL 2018 KROB PROFESSIONAL ENTRY + 2019 ROCKITECTURE DONATION

IMPRESSIONS

ARTSPACE 111 5TH ANUAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS| DFW ART TOOTH CRITIQUE NIGHT 2018 | BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS CALL FOR ART 2019

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION | 19TH CENTURY

FIRST TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT | 1941

IBM SIMON MOBILE PHONE | 1994 MIXED MEDIA | NARRATIVE SERIES| 4”X 9”

OUR ENVIRONMENTS HAVE INFLUENCES ON INDIVIDUALS PERSPECTIVES. OVER THE COURSE OF HISTORY PATRONS OF ARCHITECTURAL AND TECHONOGLICAL SPACES HAVE EXPERIENCED AN INCREASINGLY PERSONALIZED VENUE FOR ENTERNTAINMENT AND UTILIZATION. EACH IMAGE IN THE SERIES PRESENTS WARPED PERSPECTIVES, SELECTED COLOR TEMPLATES, AND SELECTED ENVIRONMENTS TO CONVEY THEIR SOCIETAL IMPRESSIONS.

SERIES STRUCTURE:

STORY TELLLING SEQUENCE REFERENCES TO BUILT ENVIRONMENT SELECTIVE OBSCURED PERSPECTIVEAL VIEWS + HUES A SINGUALAR [VIEWER] PROTAGONIST

SEQUENTIALLY PRESENTING THIS NARRATIVE DEPICTS THE INFLUENCES OF THE CONSTRUCTED WORLD WHICH VISUALLY DICTATE CIVILIZATIONS DEVELOPMENT.

3|5_ IMPRESSIONS SERIES | TRAIN CAR | TRAVEL Each image in the series depicts a single setting in time where selected color pallete is utilized to set a tone for the entire interpretation of the observer. For the background a built environment, architectural, is spatially warped to convey the sentiment settings intent for utilization. While a protagonist utilizes the space as a white shadow figure in the foreground representing the specific user capacity and relation of the space.

The series is broken up into five segments; BCE, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, Cold War, and The age of Personal Computation. Each time frame was chosen for thier periods large influences on art, techonology, enterntainment, and architecture.

1|5 Beginning with the Aquae Sulis, Bathe England, in a time where bath houses were temples for paying tributes to the gods, recreation, and self care. These bathhouses were constructed as tributes to deities themselves, minimizing the scale of their patrons, and providing and unearthly relative dimension. Yellows and oranges are utilized to demonstrate unorthodoxarity and high energy.

2|5 In the age of the Renaissance, human civilization expressed inquistion of the sciences and arts, where the Globe theathre [1599] was constructed to bring its audiences at the front to the enternatinment. The age was charactedized by the human scale of relativity, dymanism, and progression in contrast with previous periods of hierachy and minimalization of the human scale experience in architecture. Yellows transition the dymanism of enterntainment and collective coomunalism into the deep indigos and purples representing thought and passion.

3|5 By the time of the industrial revolution, transportation mechanisms developed serving the mass urban and cross continental usership for civilizations, personalzing voyages for the common man. This development was characterized by destination and origin with far one point perspectives of destined cities on the country side and individuals in the foreground at full scale wearing abundantly personalized attired for their far away destinations. Blue tones in the background of the cityscape convey the optimism of each traveler who in the foreground is surrounded by red and grey hues, aboard the first Stockton + Darlington Railway, the passenger train [1825] , still in use, reprsenting the neutrality of human experiences with the ability to develop the capcity to travel freely across the land.

4|5 In the mid 20th century advanced technology had been limited to the serving the public and military needs, until specific world science fairs, home appliances, and enterntainment companies began to serve the consumer markets. By this time the Television was created most people were accomodated to listening to the radio until the first movies and live sports recordings were broadcasted for public and personal consumption. People flooded near storefronts, local taverns, to watch these events, then later purchased them for their homes. These advancements shaped the physical landscape creating more intimate high consumption personal usership, transpearency, and consumer awareness and selectivity. Now the untangelable consumption of arts and the built environment interceded the great expanding human experiential scale turning the BCE period human relativity to devine, nearly inside out, with a greater human to human environment relativity. The red and grey tones are utilized similarily from the previous segment of the sequence, and the warped perspective immulates the orignal rounded glass of the television screen.

5|5 Although computation had existed for centuries for the calculations of merchants, and more recently so for the first census computer, hand held and personal computation devices became readily available for private consumption in the late 20th century, minimizing the relationship between people and the built environment drastically. This is depicted in the fifth portion of the mixed media art series with a highly orbital onepoint perspective with the first mobile phone at the main focus, where only the protagonists hand is seen. The surrounding background is painted in a slightly nuetral tone with realistic color of each aspect. Where the nuetral tones and rounded perspective represent the equal flexibity in user ship of the built environment and technology around the architectural landscpe.

Through each portion of the sequence throughout time it is evident the utilization of space has become personable and flexible for usership loosly detached from traditional infrastructure.

PROCESS || | GEOMETRICAL LAYOUT OF WARPPED PERSPECTIVE | ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTUAL BACKGROUND + TECHNOLOGIES + PROTAGONIST | APPLIED COLOR THEORY TO ILLUSTRATION 1|5_ IMPRESSIONS SERIES | BCE AQUE SULIS | MONUMENTALITY

2|5_ IMPRESSIONS SERIES | RENAISSANCE GLOBE THEATRE | ARTS

4|5_ IMPRESSIONS SERIES | TELEVISION STORE FRONT | CONSUMPTION 2|5_ IMPRESSIONS SERIES | MIXED MEDIA | BSA 2019 ART DONATION

ARCHITECTURAL