CAVE DRAWINGS
When we were traveling in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, we of course visited many caves which were carved out of the rock. Cappadocia is famous for cave dwellings and cave churches. Cappadocia is...
Monthly Archive: November 2014
MIND MAPPING
A huge thank you to Denys Levassort over at Mind-Mapping-Decision.com. The link to Denys’ site is here http://www.mind-mapping-decision.com Although I do not speak French, Denys offers services in which mind mapping is applied to...
LANGUAGE DEMOTION
Language is our default cultural communication method. We have commented in the past, for example here and here, about our over reliance on words and the confused logic that springs from these words. Arnheim,...
INNOCENCE LOST
The more that I work on this project, the more I think back to my educational experience in Architecture School. And I continue to ponder on how we generate the forms that we create. ...
LOGIC OF IMAGES
“I am inclined to believe that the logic of images is the prime mover of constructive imagination.” This quote is taken from Arnheim, who is quoting Ribot. When we have a concept or thought...
SURREALIST VISUAL FACTS
The Surrealists formed between the wars in Paris. They found suspect our cultural over reliance on words. Some previous thoughts on the literary dichotomy here. The Surrealist and subsequent Dada movements were founded to...
WEISENHOF HOUSING ESTATE
During the birth of modernism, the Weisenhof Housing exhibition has loomed large as a historical marker. In 1927, between the wars, the German government mounted the Deutcher Werkbund exhibition. This exhibition was established so...
SURFACES ARE THE PROBLEM
“The mind is not held back by the surfaces of things.” Yesterday we had an Arnheim inspired page, and today another Arnheim jewel. On page 88 of Visual Thinking, he discusses our perceptions of...
EARLY EXPLORERS
As I read the far more scholarly and researched texts of others, it is always exciting to realize that early explorers have tread this pathway before us. Although they have not given us the...
GREEK DICHOTOMY
Our culture puts logical discourse ahead of visual discourse. This predilection started with the Greeks: the early Greek thinkers essentially disparaged sensory experience. Instead they encouraged the rigorous application of words and numbers. In...
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