What are the marks that you make on the surface? What is your working balance? Are they lines? Does the term line confuse the issue? A line as defined by Euclidian modalities does not exist. Are they traces? A trace is produced from movement: a path worn into the field from deer, contrails, […]
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24Feb
2024
FORMNICATION
2024
Formnication noun 1. the imparting or exchanging of information between forms 2. a process by which one form is modified by another one“This is the result of the formnication of the cylinder and the gable box.”
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10Feb
2024
THE PROCESS IS THE MASSAGE
2024
“What is needed is a process approach: each visual representation should be linked with its context of production.” Pauwels.
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12Jan
2024
TAKE A DOT FOR A WALK
2024
Paul Klee famously stated that a line is “a dot that went for a walk.” You make a dot when your pencil touches your paper, and that dot goes for a walk because of the gesture of your hand. A walking dot is the trace that is left on the paper as you move […]
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12Dec
2023
THE MATH OF HOUSES
2023
The design of a house can be expressed in a mathematical formula. So let us see how we can incorporate mathematical equations as part of our design process. When a client approaches you with their requirements for a house, without question, there will be a list with elements, such as living, kitchen, dining, […]
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12Nov
2023
THE ARCHITECT SHALL DESIGN A FORM
2023
The fundamental task of a designer is to design a form. Before any problem is solved there must be a form. Yet, designers are seen as problem solvers. A client may say, I want to add bedrooms, or increase the size of the living room, to my house. Or a client may say, I […]
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11Oct
2023
SIMULTANEOUS DRAWING
2023
In Transparent Drawing, I used the words simultaneous, and simultaneously, 20 times. Drawing simultaneously is one of my central concepts. As I took these photos a few days ago in the countryside of Girona, Spain, I thought, if I were teaching a drawing class, I would ask that students draw this form, from these photos, […]
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21Sep
2023
AUTHENTIC ANONYMITY
2023
Rowe makes the point that Mies was concerned with anonymity. In Mies’ view, the idea was superordinant. The fact and the form were secondary. And this anonymity was deeply rooted in classicism. Beaux Arts architects were anonymous. That is, with the adherence to the rules of the culture, the product was one of strict conformity, […]
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22Aug
2023
LET’S DESIGN THE PROFESSION
2023
There have been a spate of articles asking the question, will AI (Artificial Intelligence) make architects obsolete? Oliver Wainwright’s article in The Guardian is worth focusing on. In the article, Wainwright interviews Ethan Mills, who says the following: “What (architects) need to design right now is not another building, but the future of their profession.” […]
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2Aug
2023
BRAIN DUMP
2023
I’ve been wanting to put together a page like this for awhile. I have assembled sequential pages from a sketchbook, to see if my brain dump gives insight. The date range is from 7 June 23, when I was in Toronto, to 23 June. Longtime readers know that I draw each morning. The vast majority […]
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