We will be traveling for the next two weeks. I have this fantasy of providing travel related transparent drawings while on the trip. Who knows if I will have the motivation to actually do this. So some of the posts in the next two weeks will have been prepared ahead of time. And they will […]
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29Aug
2016
MUSEUM PROCEDURE
2016
Everyone at a museum show has their phones out taking photos of the wonderful artwork. What you don’t see people doing is taking a photo of the name of the artwork. You need to record the title of the piece you are interested in. You need to know what you like. You need to follow […]
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26Aug
2016
DREAMS ARE FACTS
2016
Dreams are facts. In analytic psychology, dreams are the elements of what is going on in a person’s unconscious. “Soon I realized that it was right to take the dreams in this way as the basis of interpretation, for that is how dreams are intended. They are the facts from which we must proceed.” p171. […]
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24Aug
2016
DRAWING MACHINES
2016
Since the beginning, machines have been developed with the goal of reducing subjective human interpretation. This thought has been with us since the 17th century, and has basically been unchanged into today. And of course, since the beginning, humans have made machines that made drawings. We look at two early drawing machines, the camera llucida […]
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22Aug
2016
SCIENTIFIC MODERNISM
2016
This is how scientific discovery happens. Scientific discovery happens when it is observed that nature violates an accepted scientific paradigm. That is to say, when the expectations of a paradigm no longer match nature, then experiments are conducted to see why this discrepancy is occurring. And after successful experiments, in which average observations are summarized, […]
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19Aug
2016
TRANSPARENT TIME
2016
Time is what roots us in our humanity. Architecture controls and modulates the sequence of experience. To have a sequence, time must elapse. Humans have a fundamental need to understand their place in time. We derive great satisfaction in contributing to human actions that will exceed our lifetimes. Architecture has a fundamental task of giving […]
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17Aug
2016
AVERAGE SCIENCE
2016
“Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far to general to do justice to the subjective variety of an individual life.” p3 These are the words of Carl Jung, the great psychiatrist who changed the course of history with his analytic psychology. […]
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15Aug
2016
PRECISION
2016
A goal of science is to increase precision. The goal of design should be the same. Both science and design endeavor to understand the world. And we increase this understanding by increasing precision. To the scientist, this means ever more precise observations via experiments. The designer’s task is to increase our understanding by holistic and […]
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12Aug
2016
THE ELECTROMAGNET AND THE GREEK REVIVAL
2016
Think of a Greek Revival house as a scientific experiment. Difficult if next to impossible? Then let’s compare a Greek Revival to an electromagnet to see if this becomes clearer. ELECTROMAGNET AS PARADIGM As we saw, the result of scientific experiments is fully expected. The reason that scientific experiments are conducted is to confirm […]
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10Aug
2016
STEAM
2016
I am obsessed with the conflation of art and science. For a quick background update, see the pages PARADIGM and PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS. John Maeda, in his Scientific American article, Artists and Scientists, More Alike Than Different, provides an interesting look into the similarities. Mr. Maeda writes, “What is true? Why does it matter? How […]
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