ASU Gammage Auditorium

ASU Gammage Auditorium - Tempe, AZ

digital

2023

Continuing on with the local illustration series, and moving away from the town of Gilbert and into the city of Tempe; the first landmark that I want to showcase is ASU’s Gammage Auditorium.

ASU Gammage, named after Arizona State’s past president Grady Gammage was designed and constructed in the early 1960s by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright’s famous geometric style can be seen all throughout the exterior and interior, and today the building is primarily used for touring Broadway productions.

ASU Gammage is a very large and very detailed building, so when trying to portray the unique and defining characteristics this building contains, I tried to find angles that best showcased most of those attributes clearly and compositionally. The angle I chose for this drawing, showcases the circular shape, its large exterior columns, and also one of the decorated ramped walkways leading to the upper levels of the building.

With the greater amount of detail this building had compared to the other landmarks I had done with this series in the past, I also chose to position the illustration in a landscape orientation instead of a portrait orientation. Though right now this is the only drawing in that particular orientation in this series, it opens door and gives the opportunity to do longer, wider buildings and landmarks in the future.