Monthly Archive: December 2016

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STICKBOARD DIGITAL INTERFACE

I’ve come up with a great new digital interface. It’s called the Stickboard. This new product has been designed to eliminate your laptop’s keyboard by fitting directly over it. The Stickboard provides an  analogue...

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ESPERANTO

These pages, as our faithful readers know, and to the irritation of some, believe that visual communication is superior to the lingual.  See NATIONAL WORDS.  And we’re always looking for support in this belief; ...

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UPSIDE DOWN BARCELONA PAVILION

I drew the Barcelona Pavilion upside down. This upside down idea stemmed from my insight, two pages ago, in which I wondered if Mies set the thickness of the reflecting pools the same as...

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GIFT SHOPS

No coverage of an architectural icon would be complete without a review of the gift shop.  And yes, there is a gift shop in the Barcelona Pavilion. When you stop to think about it,...

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IT’S NOT ON A PLINTH

The Barcelona Pavilion is not on a raised plinth.  I mentioned this on the previous page. Yet architects are taught and indoctrinated that indeed the building is on a raised plinth.  To add veracity...

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BARCELONA PAVILION

It’s underwhelming, the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies.  But in a good way.  It was as if the expectation of total perfection diluted the experience of perfection.  How can you experience perfection when you know...

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WINDEX

I said I was going to do it, and I did it. A few pages ago, I mused about what might happen if you spray windex onto your paper.  The drawing above is the...

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WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 3

I thought this might work. I did the thumbnail above more or less absentmindedly, and noticed that the water soluble pencil soaked up the water.  In a more or less non thinking manner, I...

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GREAT CLIENTS

We are adept, as a profession, about describing Great Buildings. But what about Great Clients? This occurred to me as I sit here in Lisbon and make another drawing of Casa Battlo. The previous...

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CASA BATLLO

Is it more authentic if I post drawings during my travels?  Possibly. We went to Casa Batllo, by Gaudi, here in Barcelona yesterday.  I had been there decades ago.  Yesterday’s visit was like seeing...

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CROATIA GARAGE

Many times, an ordinary building can capture your attention. We are traveling this week, so I offer this simple drawing of a simple building.  I snapped the photo below from my bicycle.  We were...

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BECOMING TRANSPARENT DRAWING

Like I’ve said before, I’m bad at social media. So when Transparent Drawing is tagged on Facebook; actually, when Gail White, who is a poet, writes a short poem titled Becoming Transparent Drawing, I...