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David Macaulay is a remarkable artist who trained as an architect at the Rhode Island School of Design. In his most famous book The Way Things Work he looks inside familiar objects (the calculator, for example) and makes the invisible visible with vivid and witty drawings.
Macaulay’s earlier books looked inside buildings and how they worked. This workshop will look closely at his careful, beautiful drawings and construct sections of 5 iconic structures that Macaulay studied. Small groups will work on a cathedral, a pyramid, a (Roman) city, a castle, and a mosque. Work with small blocks and wood, fiber, paper and sculpey.
Each student will create ¼” scale artisans, tools, animals to make the work come to life.
Each student will craft a house representative of the time and place of their major project.