TRANSPARENT PHOTOGRAPHY
In an article in Psychological Science, as reported in the Times, researchers found that taking photos serves to increase your memory of the experience. The studies found that taking photos increases your engagement with...
Monthly Archive: August 2017
KAWAKUBO AT THE MET
We just saw the Comme des Garcons show at the MET. I am surprised by my emotional response to the show and how inspiring it is. This is a 20 year retrospective of Rei...
YOU’VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE
Picasso said, that when drawing, “You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.” That is a powerful thought, given that it applies to our continued search for the means and...
PRACTICE AND THE COMPUTER
The computer pushes some people away from the practice of architecture. This thought evolved via a Facebook conversation with two Transparent Drawing followers. It had never occurred to me that the computer might turn...
TRANSPARENT CUBISM
Historians have divided Cubism into two segments. Analytic and Synthetic. Analytic Cubism happened at the beginning of the movement, including the years 1908-1912. The concepts of Analytic Cubism are central to Transparent Drawing. “It...
DRAWING LIGHT
In Morocco, it is all about the light. We saw a couple of my attempts to respond to the Moroccan light with the drawings at the page Representational Transparency and Ordinary Building – Morocco. When light...
OPPENHEIMER
Have you ever stopped to think what spatial and form processing facilities you are born with? “Typology is a study of those relationships that do not have to do with measure and size, but...
DRAW LIKE A BYZANTINE
A new phrase, Draw Like a Byzantine, has crept into these pages without any warning. Let’s try to formalize the meaning of this phrase so as to bring it into our lexicon. To Draw...
ELIMINATE THE VANISHING POINT
You want to Draw Like a Byzantine? Eliminate the vanishing point. Have you ever thought about the cultural hegemony of the act of placing the vanishing point on your paper? There you are, drawing...
REAL WORLD TRANSPARENT DRAWING
I thought it would be fun to show a couple of real world Transparent Drawings. As long time readers know, I use Transparent Drawing on a daily basis in my office. I think transparently...
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