LeCorbusier itemized, in his Five Points Towards a New Architecture, his basic planning principals on how to approach design. The first four points address the structure, roof gardens, open plans, and horizontal windows, all...
Noguchi tells us, “Primarily, what we carry around with us is a memory of our childhood, back when each day held the magic of discovering the world.” It seems to me that there are...
It seems that my most recent posts have to do with the search for transparency in the architectural drawings of others. I just happened to be looking at the entries for the Guggenheim Helsinki...
Robert, one of our far flung correspondents, reports that while he also thinks that the current Latin American Modernism show at MOMA is excellent, he also had trouble finding transparency in all of the...
We need to be aware of what psychologists call anchoring. Anchoring is what might be called a suggestion. Or a first thought. And this first thought significantly shapes the outcome of our creative solutions....
As should be clear by now, representational drawing is by definition based on the exclusion of information. Opaque objects hide what’s behind them. And what you can’t see, you can’t process. Kahneman, in Thinking...
One of the core beliefs of Transparent Drawing is the primacy of the visual. Another core belief is that the scientific and artistic methods are identical. Here is a link to a past post...
There is a great show at MOMA in NYC right now. Titled Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955 – 1980, it is an eye opening look at the unheralded modernism that was built mid...
Humans are very comfortable with the familiar. There is the old adage that we are creatures of habit. And I would surmise that this is entirely true. We are comfortable with the tried and...
The linear perspective represents infinity. In a one point perspective drawing, the vanishing point is infinity. When you think about the fact that infinity is represented on your paper with a pencil dot, it...
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“The problem of perception is to understand the processes that allows us to create in our minds a representation…of what it is like out there, given a fragmentary, changing two-dimensional set of receptor excitations.”Oatley.
“Not only is the concept of reality highly contested, but also a degree zero is lacking in visual perception, that is, there is no state where things are perceived in an uncolored or unbiased form.” Pauwels.
“A symbol is a repository of meanings.Meanings arise out of the more profound experiences that have accumulated through time.”Tuan.
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