Miscellaneous Sketches by Peter Schmid-ECOHB President
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May 28th, 2010
An exhibition in Het Waalres Museum in The Netherlands shows a large number of sketches, done by ECOHB’s president Peter Schmid from March 28th until June 20th 2010, open Wednesday – Sunday 13:30 – 17:00 h.
The exhibition ‘Wie tekent ziet meer’ = ‘One who is drawing is able to see more’ . Travel drawings, made by architects also contains drawings, done by Wolf Schijns, who was not only a PhD researcher of our president, but also an assistant professor at his chair at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Schijns’ drawings are dealing mainly with his research on Vernacular Architecture in Mali, Africa.
The exposed oeuvre of Peter Schmid includes
- Original travel sketches from seven European countries;
- Two glass cupboards with illustrated books (on sustainable architecture) Peace Garden projects, three-dimensional (model) sketches, and drawing tools;
- A digital projection of more travel sketches from all continents (28 countries);
- A digital projection of miscellaneous drawings and sketches, such as design sketches for sustainable building technology and architecture, presentation drawings and ‘old’ overhead sheets, season greetings (since 1961), common groups drawings, abstract, or concrete sketches after dreams and meditation, and three-dimensional (model) sketches as well;
- Another digital projection – actually gives an overview about the whole show together with some biographical information, and the explanation of the specially developed pictograms on the types of drawn motives and applied drawing techniques.
The digital projections (also on DVD) are made by Gabriella Pal-Schmid.
Peter and Gabriella
Het Waalres Museum, although located in a Dutch village – Waalre in North-Brabant, and relatively small, owns one of the world’s largest damask collections, containing more than 1000 pieces from 1550 up to 1950.
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