UNREMARKABLE REMARKABLE FACADE
As we are traveling this week, I prepared ahead of time this post from our past travels in Turkey. Walking thru Guzelyurt, I snapped the photo below of this building. Many times when you...
Monthly Archive: August 2015
PREDICT THE FUTURE
Are our design predictions accurate? How complete is our design understanding? Are we completely unsurprised when we walk into a building that we designed for the first time? Can we say we accurately predicted...
THE ROMANCE OF IT ALL
Is the act of drawing better than the drawing? Yes. If the act of drawing is a sacred act, then the place that you draw also becomes sacred. I am always very interested to...
TRANSPARENT RUINS
Architects love ruins. I think that is because that thru the general decay of a building over a long period of time, the essence of the building is revealed. It is as if the...
DRAWN TO DESIGN 1
Drawn to Design, by Eric Jenkins, is a book about architectural drawing. I was not aware of the book when I started Transparent Drawing. It was thru a Linkedin connection that it was brought...
THE LESS FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS
We have been following two modernist phenomenons in these pages, the Weisenhof housing estate and Le Corbusier. Put those two together, and we see what Corb built for the housing project. I always find...
REGRESSION TO THE MEAN
I think that if I keep finding these psychologically oriented topics, I will need to create another category to this blog. I am finding that a psychological understanding of the client’s process something that...
FIGURE GROUND, A TRANSPARENT DEFINITION
Webster’s defines figure ground as follows: a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background....
YOUR CLIENT’S BRAIN
We have been considering what is happening when your client hates your design. We have discussed both emotional and logical responses of our clients. So it was with great interest to learn about a...
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