"The camera is a tool for idlers, who use
a machine to do their seeing for them."
Le Corbusier
Check out Elias' sketchbooks at eliasblue.com
Color and light; Sketches and drawings; Experiences, images and thoughts;
This is what has been recorded in Elias' sketchbooks over the years. Elias
has been travelling and sketching since he was a student of Architecture
in 1986. He travelled to Italy, Spain, Israel, Egypt,
Germany, the US, the UK, and Greece.
He exhibited his sketchbooks for the first time at the Front Gallery of
the A&A Building at Yale School of
Architecture in 1992, then at the Athens College Theater
(Greece) in 1994, and at the Jerusalem
Theater (Israel) in 2002. Between March 2014 and March 2015, Elias'
sketchbook from his travels in Italy in the early 1980s is on display at
the exhibition 'Journeys' at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Elias' sketches have been published
in Israel and the US. Some of Elias' sketchbooks can also be viewed online.
In 2014 Elias posted an article on Linkedin titled 'Learning
from the Master and the Village' which also includes some sketches from
his travel sketchbooks in Greece, Italy, Israel and Egypt. Keep
reading.
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'Elias, these look really good (...) Your sketchbooks (the images I see)
are more painterly and less "architectonic." That puts them well above other
architect's travel sketches. I'm not sure I agree with Corbu about the camera
being for "idlers" but I see why he wrote it.' David Jameson (ArchiTech
Gallery)
(Image to the left): "Sunday walk in the Plaka. I look at the carved
marbles scattered on the ground near the Tower of the Winds... stones carved
by a craftsman that has long past away together with his craft... I keep
on walking and I constantly find myself under the Acropolis. I am in love
with this part of Athens; the part of the ghosts; the part of nostalgia;
the part of day-dreaming. The Acropolis has become like a point of reference
to my explorations." Plaka, Athens (Greece, July 18, 1993)
