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 are walking or driving around, you see something that interests you, yet you don’t have time time to really analyze why. […]
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27Aug
2015
PREDICT THE FUTURE
2015
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 feeling and experience of our enclosures that we live and work in? No. Minimal. Somewhat. No. I have yet to […]
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24Aug
2015
THE ROMANCE OF IT ALL
2015
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 see the context in which any of us draws. Sometimes artists publish a photo of their drawing board. Or we see […]
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21Aug
2015
TRANSPARENT RUINS
2015
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 process of decay thereby yields a level of transparency to the building. So when I was teaching a bit ago, I […]
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19Aug
2015
DRAWN TO DESIGN 1
2015
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 to my attention. The closest analogue to Drawn to Design is Ching’s Architectural Graphics, which I have touched on at various […]
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17Aug
2015
PAUL KLEE
2015
Diana, who works for Artsy, wrote and asked that a link be provided to her Paul Klee page. It seems that she ran across my earlier post about Klee, and thinks that anyone interested in Klee might find further interest at her page. Diana writes: We strive to make all of the world’s art accessible […]
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13Aug
2015
THE LESS FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS
2015
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 it amazing to see what famous architect built less famously. We think of Corb and we think of all of the […]
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10Aug
2015
REGRESSION TO THE MEAN
2015
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 has not been addressed in our design world. So far, we have addressed emotional/intuitive client responses. And we have also described […]
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6Aug
2015
FIGURE GROUND, A TRANSPARENT DEFINITION
2015
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. Solid, well defined objects which stand out from the background. If this is not a description of how we are taught […]
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3Aug
2015
YOUR CLIENT’S BRAIN
2015
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 new paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. A team led by Dr. Ezequiel Morsella at San Francisco State University came to […]
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