On his trip to Machu Picchu in 1995, Alvaro Siza bought whatever sketchbook was available. No soft cover Moleskine notebooks, no Marlborough leather journals by Noble McMillan, just simply the next sketchbook at the next stationers he happened upon. He was businesslike about sketching and didn't indulge in stationery fetishism. The only value he placed on his notebooks were the ideas in them and how many he needed to sell in order to buy a Picasso drawing. (He owns several.) It is a more modest vision of sketching than the one we have grown used to, one vividly captured in the film, Sketches of Frank Gehry, which opens with a series of scribbles over which Sydney Pollack intones, 'So what is so hot about Frank Gehry?
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