BIOGRAPHY

 

Architect and Planner

During my career as an architect and planner, I have consistently utilized freehand drawing skills that I began to develop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  I have also promoted sketching while working in architectural education, including two years as Visiting Assistant Professor with UIUC’s School of Architecture Study Abroad Program at Versailles (now Barcelona).  My year as a student in the same program provided me with a valuable foundation in design and the appreciation of great buildings and landscapes through drawing. 

 

I encourage the analysis of architecture from any age using classical methodology, which is to say capturing a building’s design, proportions and atmospheric qualities directly as observed using hand-drawing techniques.  When we take the time to record via drawing, we observe more deeply and remember more clearly what is before our eyes.

 

Watercolors

At the onset of the Pandemic in 2020, several chapters of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) sponsored virtual sketch trips to landmarks around the world.  Participating in this experience renewed my passion for hand drawing and painting architecture.  I am particularly interested in freehand techniques that rapidly capture the impact of exceptional light on masterworks of building and landscape design.  My work is created in the field and in the studio.

 

The work herein exemplifies my approach to seeing and appreciating what elevates construction to architecture that moves us all and motivates those in the building professions to excel at the art of shaping our physical environment.

 

Feedback, Art for Purchase

Welcome to my website! I would enjoy your feedback, and many of the pieces in my watercolors collection are available for purchase.  Please contact me using the template below to express interest in sketching and/or owning work from my portfolio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

All works copyrighted by Stephen Daniel Siegle.  The artist retains the right to reproduce and publish these paintings.  Reproduction or other use of these paintings or images of them by others without the artist’s consent is prohibited.