Site work

Enjoy your sites: observe and investigate, draw out and explore the qualities that interest you. Document these qualities through drawing and photography and allow the process of recording to further your investigations, as well as articulating your interests. Consider the whole site, beyond the boundaries of the site to neighbours and context, as well as selected details. Here are some images from site and drawings to inspire you:

student site studies from top: Campo San Polo by Charanpal Matharu, 3-point site study by Nenad Djordjevic, Venice site plan by Marios Aphram


Rail Networks, from Taking Measures Across the American Landscape by Corner and MacLean


Belavali House site plan by Studio Mumbai


San Giorgio photomontage by Enric Miralles



Merced River, Yosemite Valley photocollage and Still Life Blue Guitar composite polaroid, both by David Hockney


Polyptich: Off Waterloo Bridge, by Jon Spencer


The Avro 1 triplane being tested on Walthamstow Marshes, 1909


aerial photo of museum site showing previous waste incineration chimney, sewage filterbeds, railtracks and farmbuildings


derelict Warners building, Hawarden Road





details from top: wildflowers in rubble sacks, flood channel and reservoir bank, spider webs in oil drum litter bin at Douglas Eyre, detail of ground at Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum, moss and lichen on Ferry Lane wall to train tracks and reservoirs

I recently came across some beautiful drawings by Perry Kupler:

Fast Twitch Site Plan by Perry Kulper