John Cline

Designer, woodworker and artist, John Cline hails from Northern Alabama which has been his family’s home for more than six generations. Before finding his footing at Auburn University, where John earned his undergraduate degree in Architecture, John campus hopped a bit and spent a year in the snowy mountains of Summit County, Colorado where he worked a myriad of jobs including doughnut maker and ski lift operator.

After graduating from Auburn, he traveled through Europe for several months. While this was a solo journey, he met many kind and memorable characters along the way. Upon returning to the States, John settled in Chicago and began his architecture career. After several years in the work force, John attended graduate school at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

John’s work begins with his love of drawing. Working predominantly in pencil and pen and ink, his current work continues where his undergraduate thesis left off and explores his ongoing architectural education and mines his professional experiences through hard lined drawings. The recent work are conceptual “sections”, “elevations” and “plans” sometimes seamlessly superimposed on top of each other. The viewer is allowed to make interpretations as to scal...

Cranbrook Academy of Art - MArch
Auburn University - BArch