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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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