Le Corbusier copied history. That is to say, he self educated himself on the great historical precedents, and then used those examples as a direct basis for his work. I don’t know about everyone else, but this historical linkage continues to surprise and intrigue me. As has been written in these pages, the historical links […]
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26Sep
2014
THINKING THRU THE BLOCKS
2014
I was amazed to learn that there are transparent building block sets. There seem to be two basic types. The first type is made of solid acrylic. These blocks have more of a translucency rather than a transparency. You are advised to let children play with them on a light table! A LIGHT TABLE! And […]
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24Sep
2014
THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WE’RE FREE AT LAST
2014
To date, we have discussed various drawing projection systems for your Transparent Drawings. We have discussed the axonometric with it’s supreme objectivity. We have discussed the one and two point perspectives with their supreme subjectivity. Choisey specific axonometrics have been broached in these pages. Other resources delve into subdivisions of the axonometric, such as the […]
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22Sep
2014
ONE POINT VS TWO POINT PERSPECTIVE
2014
Is there a big difference between a one point and two point perspective? Before answering that, it is important to understand that at the beginning of the Renaissance, the only perspective that they were talking about and developing was the one point. So one historical question is, when Brunelleschi was doing his one point perspective […]
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17Sep
2014
FORM GENERATION
2014
As designers, one of the basic points is to derive a form that is unique to your problem and somewhat different that what has come before. The derivation of a new form is in our blood. It is one of the fruits of the game that we play. Transparent Drawing is a powerful tool to […]
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15Sep
2014
DRAWING FROM PHOTOS
2014
Most architectural educators continue to tell students that you should not draw from photographs. The general line of thinking is that since a photo is a 2D image, it is too far removed from reality. Textures are not communicated. The light and shadows are diluted. The information on the photo is flat. All of this […]
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11Sep
2014
NATURAL STATE DRAWING
2014
Helen, one of our correspondents, addresses the idea of abstraction. Her prescient thoughts, as usual, cut directly to the heart of the matter. Full disclosure, Helen is one of our clients. Click here for a link to her excellent comment. The central question that she raised is whether Transparent Drawing is abstract. Robert H. McKim, […]
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10Sep
2014
WHY. NOT HOW
2014
Paul Lauseau, author of Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers, muses the following in the second edition of his excellent resource, “…it occurs to me that most of what I have written deals with how or what could be done and not so much with why.” Full disclosure; Mr. Lauseau was my architectural professor back […]
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8Sep
2014
INDIGENOUS PERFECTION
2014
I happened to take a drive a couple of evenings ago. The late afternoon was warm and it was good to be driving rural roads. After 25 years of living up here, it is amazingly easy to find yourself on roads that you have never been on before. This afternoon was no exception. In these […]
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4Sep
2014
BUCKY FULLER
2014
Buckminster Fuller is a supreme systems thinker. He argued from day one that to understand the part, you have to understand the whole. Early in his education, he rebelled against the manner in which geometry was traditionally taught. He had a difficult time accepting the notion of a flat triangle. He stated that any two […]
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