This sketch, done in on the Ca Doro (Palazzo Santa Sofia) in Venice was an investigation into the design of a facade. Our professor told us about how Le Corbusier used to sketch the building when he visited Venice and it's easy to see why. The assymetry and division of an implied grid, unifies and disects the facade into parts.

For example, if you look at the rectangular windows towards the right part of the facade in the picture, you'll notice they are all different sizes and some are more square but if you look closer you'll see that that align vertically centered on an invisible line. It is this kind of pattern you can see in various forms on this facade that I think makes it such a compelling composition.

I used an image from google instead of one of my own photographs for clarity reasons and so I wouldn't have to take into photoshop. This sketch was especially fun to do since across the water you get to sketch next to the fish market and allow the wafting of yesterdays catch to make you concentrate more on your sketching.