Monthly Archive: June 2015

A LECORBUSIER MINDSET 0

A LECORBUSIER MINDSET

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...

FAMOUS CREATIVE MINDS 0

FAMOUS CREATIVE MINDS

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...

GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI TRANSPARENCY 0

GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI TRANSPARENCY

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...

LATIN AMERICAN MODERNISM 2 0

LATIN AMERICAN MODERNISM 2

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...

ANCHORING 0

ANCHORING

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....

KNEE JERK DESIGN 0

KNEE JERK DESIGN

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...

LIPPITY LANGUAGE 0

LIPPITY LANGUAGE

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...

LATIN AMERICAN MODERNISM 1

LATIN AMERICAN MODERNISM

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...

FAMILIAR HURT 0

FAMILIAR HURT

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...

INFINITY IS SILLY 1

INFINITY IS SILLY

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...