A great advantage to having your daughter study architecture is that you are exposed to books that you did not know existed. Our daughter was reading from Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space this Thanksgiving. I started reading the introduction, and immediately passages jumped from the book that speak to our mission here at Transparent Drawing. […]
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27Nov
2015
SENSORY OVERLAP
2015
Architecture is a rich, multi-sensory experience. There is great sensory overlap to our sensory input. It is richly three dimensional and simultaneous. We should therefore push ourselves to include as much of this overlapping sensory input as possible into our drawings. Our analogue drawings. Science does not fully understand our mental relationships and how the […]
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25Nov
2015
ROAD NOT TAKEN
2015
At the confluence of the analog and the digital, we need to reference as many analogue instances that we can so as to continue to demonstrate the validity of what we are about. We will look at two of our themes, analogue sketching and holistic understanding, in the context of modern medicine. Today’s example comes […]
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23Nov
2015
NO LINGUISTIC FRAMEWORK
2015
I can’t resist sharing every example that I see giving validity to Visual Superiority. This example comes to us in a New Yorker article on weather. Yes, weather. The article by Kathryn Schulz talks about how weather has infused our literature and culture over the centuries. And it gives a history of our scientific understanding […]
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20Nov
2015
CONSTRICTIVE 2D MODELING
2015
Most of our input to computers is 2D. Why is the majority of our input not directly into 3D? For our daily, run of the mill, typical interaction with 3D digital systems, we spend a significant part of our time working in 2D. To draw walls, we draw the element in 2D, and then typically […]
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18Nov
2015
VOLUMETRIC, NOT PICTORIAL
2015
The word volumetric is replacing the word pictorial. To operate optimally, we can no longer think in pictorial terms. We must think volumetrically. Case in point. Thomas French, one of our venerable far flung correspondents, wrote in to make sure that we saw the New York Times article regarding the images that self driving cars […]
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17Nov
2015
TRANSPARENT DIGITAL INPUT
2015
We spoke about digital to digital. We spoke about free or low cost scan apps for our devices. Now, someone needs to write an app that takes a scan of our analogue transparent drawing as a digital input, and then turns that into a three dimensional computer file. I did a cursory look on the […]
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16Nov
2015
DIGITAL TO DIGITAL
2015
Last week, I mentioned how we are on an unstoppable arc toward digitization. Our sacred act of analogue drawing is being skewed toward digitization. Yet there are technologies which help integrate our analogue drawings into the digital cloud. It is called a scanner. Most of us have some sort of desktop scanner. There are scan […]
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13Nov
2015
BAKER HOUSE AT MIT
2015
Walk to the back side of the building. That, in a nutshell, describes the Transparent Drawing mindset when looking at a piece of architecture. We were in Boston on Wednesday, and I had a couple of free hours. So I walked across the bridge in the windy drizzle to see a building that I have […]
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11Nov
2015
HOW TO STEAL
2015
Picasso’s famous quote that good artists create and great artists steal has already been covered here. And true to Picasso’s great quote, it seems that he stole this? Or is it that great minds think alike? Who knows if Picasso even really said this. It was nevertheless refreshing to come across T.S. Eliot’s meditation on […]
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