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| ERASED CITY | Revealing the lost River Walbrook in the Square | Mile |
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| PART I | THE URBAN VOID | site analysis |
| PART II | THE THREE DIMENSIONAL VOID | architectural precedents |
| PART III | THE TWO DIMENSIONAL VOID | pictorial analysis |
| PART IV | DESIGN STRATEGY | design strategy |
| PART V | DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | design proposals |
This chapter titled 'THE TWO DIMENSIONAL VOID' begins with a side project titled 'Erased Michelanglo', which can be found here, to explore the void in two dimensional space.
'Erased Michelangelo' is a pictorial analysis of the void within Michelangelo's 'The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels, also called 'The Manchester Madonna', an unfinished painting dating back to approximately 1497.
This pictorial analysis lead to a series of painterly experiments of testing techniques of erasure, referring to Robert Rauschenberg's 'Erased de Kooning Drawing' from 1953.
Robert Rauschenberg produced the 'Erased de Kooning Drawing' using rubber erasers to literally rub-out a drawing that he had persuaded de Kooning to give him specifically for that purpose. The work apparently took a month and about forty erasers to erase/make (source: Rauschenberg, 1976).