This site is an archive of material charting the continuing work and design research of Karl Singporewala. The catalogues of drawings are continually being updated, offering the user a chance to peruse an imageography of past, present and future projects, drawing styles, exhibitions and discourse.

Architects are rarely authors of buildings, as they are ultimately constructed by others. The only thing they can truly command is their drawings.
 

recent news:

June 10
Corrgregation Canyons: Atria Étude has been selected from among 11,000 entries into the Royal Academy or Arts Summer Exhibition 2010. The world exhibition runs from 14th June till 22nd August 2010 and editions of the work will be available for purchase direct through the Royal Academy.

May 10
Corrgregation Canyons: Atria étude and B.I.M. Abstruse Abstractions added to Imageography.

Apr 10
Classics and The Soldier, The Judge and The Pantaloon have been added to the Imageography. Details on collograph printing and images to follow shortly.

Feb 10
The Metropolitan Eastminster Series is now available for sale and is currently being displayed in Arrosto, Cannon Street London.

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Corrgregation Canyons: Atria Étude
See the designs exhibited between 14th June and 22nd August 2010 at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

The Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art exhibition. Now in its 242nd year, the exhibition continues the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film. This year’s co-ordinators, Royal Academicians Stephen Chambers and David Chipperfield, will select works for the exhibition around the theme of ‘Raw’.

The Summer Exhibition attracts a high volume of entrants each year with over 11,000 entries this year. The majority of selected works will be on sale, offering visitors an unrivalled opportunity to purchase original artwork by high profile and up-and-coming artists.

As is the custom the exhibition will feature work by Academicians and Honorary Academicians and include new work by artists such as Antoni Tapies, Ed Ruscha, Michael Craig-Martin, Gillian Ayres and Tracey Emin.

 

 

The Metropolitan Eastminster Series
Size: 800x240mm (each)
Medium: Giclée Print on Gloss
No.# Editions: 50

Set in a portentous context – one of increasingly bleak and ominous climatological forecasts – this project, located east of the City of London in the Thames River, reconsiders the impending redundancy of the Thames Barrier to deliver an accomplished and innovative solution to all soothsayers.

The project – the result of a thorough synthesis of detailed research methods (archival, study trips to The Netherlands and external consultant consultations) and speculative drawing techniques – invests architectural ideas in the city at a strategic and infrastructural level, posing questions of scale left normally to the rationale of civil engineers. The drawing is the subject, object and site of the work articulating the project at a range of scales that zoom from 1:50,000 to 1:20 in the complex, varied and immaculately presented set of final drawings.
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Text by Dr Christopher Pierce & Chris Matthews

This piece is part of the artist’s Deformation Histories thesis that was used to win the RIBA South East Student Award, the Nagoya University of Arts, Japan Excellence in Art and Design, 1st prize in Art and Architecture from visiting Professors from the Seoul National University in Korea and a Best of Show Brut Brill and Carden Award at the Brighton Art and Design Exhibition.

£207.00 for the series (three pieces unframed)
£312.00 for the series (framed individually)

WORK CURRENTLY BEEN EXHIBITED AT ARROSTO, CANON STREET LONDON

To purchase item please see The Metropolitan Eastminster Series gallery page

 

 

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