Erno Goldfinger - more ideas

I made some more work in response to the plans and architectural drawings I was able to find but this time drawing with pen and graphite, and incorporating the masking off with tape that I have previously used in the project.

 

I actually really like the way these turned out, the use of graphite to mark out shapes and texture really fits in well with the pen drawings to create images which retain a handmade quality (which I much prefer to the Photoshop experiments) which help to create the sense of rough plans. The sharp edges marked out by the masking tape keeps a bit of edge in the drawings though, implying the modernist style of Goldfinger's buildings. I don't think the middle picture works as well. Using the plans and drawings printed out and stuck on looks a little flat to me.

 I think this page (created by simply rubbing graphite over a crosshatched pattern made with masking tape) also works very nicely to create a rough, urban seeming texture. This simple pattern also suggests blocks of flats (many windows and ledges etc) very effectively, and having a whole page of it gives it an immediacy that brutalist architecture often creates in its domination of whatever environment it might be built in. 

I really like these images, but my only concern is they don't look quite aggressive or solid enough to really characterise brutalist architecture. I still think they might work for the postcards, and maybe even the stamps but I'm not sure. I think I want to try working larger with bolder, more commanding shapes to really emphasise how uncompromising and dominant brutalist architecture is.