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Suburban Follies : Structures for the Residential Landscape

Originally commissioned as self-assembly garden structures, this collection of drawing studies included a viewing tower, a shower enclosure and a pavilion.

The tower was designed as an articulating structure with fold down platforms suggesting states of repose and movement, i.e standing, leaning, sitting or jumping. The shower enclosure was designed with a garden water storage tank shower filled from a garden hose. The pavilion incorporated a discrete curtains for privacy and intimacy.

The inversion of urban/suburban imagery was the conceptual backbone for the project e.g. shower/watertank, viewing tower/skyscraper, pavilion/ rear window.

The drawings were presented in the Suburban Follies exhibition, at Gallery North in Setauket, New York.

The original drawings are 18" x 24" on drawing paper

Paul Haigh, is an English born architect, designer and artist. Following graduation from Leeds Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art he immigrated to the United States. The FineArtAmerica collections are selections of sketch book drawings, watercolors, collages and professional drawings. These works, on paper, are a record of moments, places and experiences. Inclusion was based on a commonality of inherent spatial concepts and drawing technique. Watercolor, acrylic and crayon are the primary media, the additive and reductive techniques they embody, enable works that are multi-layered, translucent and transparent in visual depth. Architectural notions of placement, juxtaposition, figure/ground relationships and implied form...