DURAND AND REPRESENTATION
I am of course not the first to question the place of representation in the depiction of architecture. Durand, writing in the early 1800s in his Mecanisme de la composition, stated the inextricable link...
Monthly Archive: May 2014
LOOS VILLA MUELLER
I have been looking more at the residential work of Adolph Loos. This Transparent Drawing of the Mueller House, or Villa Mueller, is a result. I assembled this drawing from the multiple photographs and...
BYZANTINE SPACETIME
I photographed this fresco in the Chora Church in Istanbul. In the reconstructed image, one can see the inconsistent use of perspective geometry. This Byzantine painting was done most likely in the 1300s, well...
TACTILE TRACES
Nicolaides in The Natural Way to Draw describes the essential drawing phenomenon as tracing with your eye. That is, you move your pencil in the same manner that your eye sees the object that...
HAGIA SOPHIA 2
When traveling, sometimes you become so captivated because of the beauty of what you are looking at that you simply have to stop and sketch. This was one of them. Although I will confess...
SENSORY MEMORY
One of the prime texts which we are typically all given is The Natural Way To Draw by Nicolides. He writes of sensory memory, which is within all of us. We gain sensory memory...
HAGIA SOPHIA
This has to be one of the most compelling buildings in the world. My first impression was that it looked almost like a ruin, given the multitude of elements that have been constructed around...
PERSPECTIVE POWER
Desargues was a French mathematician, engineer and architect who lived at the beginning of the 17th Century. In the 1640s, he stated that perspective theory was seen as a tool to help moderate between...
ST. GREGORY
St. Gregory of Nazianzos Church, Guzelyurt-Cappadocia We visited one of the first Byzantine Churches in Guzulyert, Turkey. This building has been called the inspiration and model for Hagia Sophia and was built in the...
BYZANTINE CHURCHES
We just had a fantastic trip to Turkey. So expect continual postings from this trip. A huge revelation revelation was how the Byzantines used domes. They employed a cascading assembly of full domes, half...
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