Exercise 1: sketch Project: Serial Vision (above and facing page) Location: Venice, Italy Designer: Jeremy Davies Date: 2006 These three sketches are part of a series of sketches taken on a journey through Venice, to describe a sequence of experiences of the city. They connect to a particular journey, and interpret a personal impression of Venice. Sketching is something that needs to be practised in order for your technique to improve and develop. Observation is important, as is taking the time to think about what you are drawing. Everyday experiences can be rediscovered through drawing them. Sketching journeys around a city or a building, framing experiences and views, and relating these to particular spaces or rooms in a building is a very personal method for observing and describing architectural ideas. In his book The Concise Townscape (Architectural Press, 1994), Gordon Cullen advocates a sketching technique called `serial views'. This analysis involves drawing a journey around a city first as a map and then as a series of connected views. What is ultimately achieved by doing so is a personal description of the journey. Serial views is a technique that can equally be applied to journeys through spaces and buildings as well as cities. Sketch