Monthly Archive: September 2014
THINKING THRU THE BLOCKS
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...
THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WE’RE FREE AT LAST
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...
ONE POINT VS TWO POINT PERSPECTIVE
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...
FORM GENERATION
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...
DRAWING FROM PHOTOS
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...
WHY. NOT HOW
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...
INDIGENOUS PERFECTION
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...
BUCKY FULLER
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...
JOGGING FOR BUILDINGS
Lockard in his book Design Drawing states, “Designers must be professional perceivers. They must learn to perceive their environment comprehensively…” “Drawing is a primary means of developing this needed perceptual ability.” (1) When you...
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