ACTS OF RESISTANCE
In the November 2019 print issue of ArchitectureBoston, Nalina Moses structures a great defense and call to arms regarding what, in these pages, we call drawing. The article can be found online here. “Architects...
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WOMAN KNOWLEDGE
De Kooning’s drawing, Seated Woman, is iconic. All of de Kooning’s work is. And I finally found the courage to try to knowledge this famous drawing. Herewith, I think we need to start a...
WOODLAND SPIRIT
Norval Morrisseau was a Anishinaabe Aboriginal Canadian artist. He painted mystical and spiritual shapes which were inspired by ancient cultural traditions. Artnet uses the term x-ray to describe this visual mode of painting. I...
BOOK UPDATE
The Black Dog Press website shows Transparent Drawing on their upcoming publications page. At this link, you can see Transparent Drawing within the context of their other upcoming publications: this also gives a look...
FRED SANDBACK
Fred Sandback thought in transparency. He is considered a modernist / minimalist great. And there was definitely an interest in transparency, even if this was not explicitly stated by him. He thought in architectural...
GERTRUDE GOLDSCHMIDT
She called herself Gego. And she worked at the borderline of the limits of drawing and what a drawing is. She did a series of pieces titled Drawings Without Paper. The photograph of her...
EYE DRAWING
Jochem Hendricks puts marks on paper by simply moving his eyes. He calls this Eye Drawing. He constructed a headset which tracks the movement of his eyes. As his eyes move as he looks...
ROBERTO MATTA
Roberto Matta was a Chilean who is tagged with being a surrealist. And he operated with some transparency in his drawings. He was born in 1911, and actually died not all that long ago...
BLOOD AND GRISTLE
The physicality of drawing. The physical connection that drawing provides has been made time and again by so many, that it is almost goes without saying. We draw with our bodies. We internalize knowledge...
HEROD’S TEMPLE
At the Jewish Museum in Berlin, there was a model depicting Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem. Although, of course, there have been innumerable passing references to it over the decades, I had never stopped to...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN 2
Do you want your design to be done by a human or by the machine? This will be one of the key questions as we move toward automation. Authenticity, as I said a few...
ROTHKO’S LIGHT BAND
I can’t help it now. Whatever artwork I look at, I always think, why didn’t they do that transparently? It would have been so much more interesting. I’ve said this before many times. So,...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN
Provenance. Authenticity. I kept thinking about these concepts as I read the interesting and funny article by Nick Paumgarten in the 22 Oct. issue of The New Yorker, which discusses blockchains. The article focuses...
KNOWLEDGE AND EMOTION
Why do we draw? I say in these pages that we should draw for knowledge, rather than emotion. But what, exactly, do I mean by that? What do I mean when I say that...
ARTICLES ON DRAWING
Two articles on drawing that I came across and want to share with you. The first is by Sam Jacobs and the article is titled Rendering: The Cave of the Digital. This is published...
THE PATHETIC STATE OF ARCHITECTURAL COMMENTARY
Time was, the arrival of a copy of the print magazine Architectural Record, was a big deal. The subscription was expensive. It’s contents were mysterious. Times have changed. Now it shows up in our...
GIACOMETTI AT THE GUGGENHEIM
Giacometti liked to draw. That was my takeaway from the current show of his work at the Guggenheim. Are his drawings transparent? Not quite. Yet there is a wider sense of time about them. ...
SECRET KNOWLEDGE
When you see a great painting by a Renaissance master, we never stop to think, how did they do that? We just assume, or at least I assume, that the Rembrandt portrait or the...
OBVIOUS FUTILITY
Lockhard writing in 1974: “The attempt to try to show all the aspects and qualities of any designed space or object in any single view is obviously futile.” p138. Futile? This is Lockhard writing...
REPRESENTATION AND MEANING
Buddhist theory or practice tells us that at the root of things, forms are empty. That is to say, as one proceeds toward enlightenment, we work to separate the meaning, or content, from form. ...
BROKEN SECRETS
Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England, is iconic. The building is softly undulating. The facade is comprised of aluminum discs that reflect the ambient light. I ran across this article in The Birmingham Daily...
HEIZER TRANSPARENCY
I ran across a series of etchings by Michael Heizer. When I first saw them, my thought was, well, this is at least moving toward transparency. There is an overlapping of shapes. And it...
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