MILITARY AXONOMETRIC
The use of parallel line drawing first came into wide use for the design of military fortresses. In light of the general invasionary tendencies in the 15th and 16th centuries, impregnability was foremost on...
Monthly Archive: August 2014
YOU CANNOT NOT DRAW HISTORY
I guess one fundamental motivation for this project is to give architecture students a format with which to overcome what I continue to see as the passive teaching of architectural history. I characterize this...
OBSERVATION MAGNIFICATION
The act of drawing is merely the act of seeing better. We need to find ways to see with greater magnification. A central strength of LeCorbusier is his unmatched observational ability. Part of his...
EXCEPTIONAL BARN 1
There is a unique barn shape that I have only seen in Central Upstate New York. The examples that I know of are around Seneca Falls. They look very organic and wedded to the...
IS ARCHITECTURE ART?
In these pages, we have stated that we are not creating art in our drawings. And because we are not creating art, then we must not be artists. So if the drawings that we...
STEREOMETRIC TRANSPARENCY
The stereometric method is what I would call a transparent approach to the forming of objects. Gabo created a piece titled Two Cubes (Demonstrating the Stereometric Method.) In this piece, one cube expresses the...
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