Tagged: DESIGN PROVENANCE

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THE CULTURAL DIALOGUE OF FORMS 

The forms that you design becomes markers of social order.  Our forms, our stuff, our crap, becomes talismans of cultural value.  Forms are a cultural road map:  they are in direct conversation with the...

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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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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...

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100% HUMAN

  At Transparent Drawing, the only drawing that has value is one that is produced analogue.  If the graphic is not 100% analogue, you can’t call it a drawing.  See ANALOGUE DRAWING. And the...

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CORB IN THE M’ZAB VALLEY

In the 23 May 2016 issue of  The New Yorker, Julie Belcove writes about a new architectural exhibition that is being constructed in the Guggenheim. The artist is Kader Attia, and he has set...