STILL AND MOVING
Humans produce still images (paintings, photographs, etc) and moving images (films, videos, slide displays, etc.). There are no still images in human visual perception: the area of light that is focused on your retina...
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WORKING BALANCE
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...
TAKE A DOT FOR A WALK
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 MATH OF HOUSES
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...
SIMULTANEOUS DRAWING
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,...
LET’S DESIGN THE PROFESSION
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,...
YOU SEE SHAPE
I happened upon course planning material for early grade teachers. These sources use the terms 2D Shapes, and 3D Shapes. They never use the term form. Shapes are not Forms. So let’s say...
FUNCTION IS FAKE
You can’t understand architecture with regard to function. Function is a bore. Function has never made sense. Function is fake. “Culture imposes accepted understanding of function.” Deetz. “Where function enters into the...
DESIGN COMPETENCE
Architects, to maintain their license to practice, need to earn a certain number of what are called Continuing Education credits per year. Many of you readers are architects, and are of course familiar with...
YOUR ACTS OF DESIGN
Your only concern should be to produce forms that are authentic and responsive. You can only be concerned with your acts of design. This is all you can do. You cannot be concerned with...
YOUR GEOMETRIC REPERTOIRE
If you are a designer, what do you do as design exercises? Athletes and musicians engage in strengthening exercises. If you are of the lingual bent, you develop sets of phonemes. As a...
WALL OF REPRESENTATION
You engage in processes of perception and visualization continually. You are in a continuous state of putting together a construct of the external world. Your visual input is continually changing, and you are continually...
LAW OF CLOSED FORM
We develop greater resonance for the forms we generate when we have a working knowledge of the geometry of closed form. We study, and thus utilize, external forms to yield basic principals of geometry....
DRAWING MATERIALITY 5
This is our 5th installment of Drawing Materiality. Because we are 100% analogue, when we draw, we are celebrating our humanity. Make material marks. As any perusal of my Transparent Drawings will...
STEP BY STEP
We teach ourselves. The role of instructors / professors / et. al. is to foment learning. You (YES YOU!) then have to do what is necessary for the assimilation of knowledge. This is my...
NEGATIVE SPACE
Negative space. Now that is a stupid art term. What does that really mean? I don’t think anyone really knows. Negative space is just a cultural artifact that those who are aesthetically woke, accept...
DRAWING MATERIALITY – TAPE SHIFT
The two drawings on this page, and the drawing a few pages ago, employ what I call Tape Shift (TS). TS is when you shift the location of pieces of tape around on your...
LIGHT FROM WITHIN
Where does the light come from? We light from within. Many pages ago, we eliminated the confusion of shadows. Our transparent forms, existing as possible experiences, do not cast shadows. And the primary reason...
DRAWING MATERIALITY 2 – THE STICKY SIDE
We started the category, Drawing Materiality, awhile ago. And there has not been much follow up. So, to correct that curatorial deficiency, let’s dive back in and see what we have. For this outing,...
ARCHITECTURAL ACTION
Mogwai, a post rock band, put out an album in 2001 titled Rock Action. I’ve always liked that title (the music is fun also), and as I was drawing recently, it occurred to me,...
BUILDINGS IN BUILDINGS OUT
If you use buildings as your Source Image, you likely will get a building as a result. At least this is what I have found. But maybe that is just my architectural genome kicking...
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