EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE
We have and / or will make various references to Arnheims book Visual Thinking. In reading his book this morning, I wanted to share with you this quote from page 76; it heroically describes...
Monthly Archive: October 2014
LINEAR PERSPECTIVE – THE CRITICS
The development of the perspective should be seen as a natural component of the rational development of the human mind. Certainly the development of the perspective can be understood given our propensity for mathmatization...
BRAINLESS MASS ANTS
The Mould Manifesto by the painter Hunderwasser is hugely entertaining and inspirational. In his manifesto, he decries the use of straight lines in architecture. And what painter uses straight lines? Think of almost any...
PLAY THE FANTASY GAME
The building is built. The design was done the best that you could have done. Yet I find it interesting to pursue the what if scenarios. What if, for example, there would not have...
FULL CIRCLE TRANSPARENCY
Thomas French, one of our far flung correspondents, sent an interesting and related note. This regards the PBS series Time Scanners. So that engineers may understand in greater depth the structural integrity of the...
TRANSPARENT BLOCKS – PRODUCT REVIEW
“The maple-wood blocks…are in my fingers to this day.” This is the famous quote by Frank Lloyd Wright touting his kindergarten experiences with the maple block sets that were ubiquitous then. And we have...
VISUAL FACTS
A critical component of the creative conceptual process is when and how we retrieve our associations. As has been discussed earlier, our drawing makes direct deposits in our association database. When we draw, the...
TONE AND LINE
Transparent Drawing requires that you draw lines and then put tones between the lines. At least that is what I do. We should give some of our attention to the matter of tones and...
RIETVELD SCHRODER HOUSE
Our correspondent Mike reminds us of Gerald Rietveld’s Schroder Residence in Utrecht. Indeed, this building was one that I continued to gaze at thru the iconic book images as a student. I won’t bore...
REAL WORLD 1
I have been showing Transparent Drawings to my clients for about 4 years. As I have stated elsewhere, I am a practicing Architect. Some of you may be reading along and saying, ok while...
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