A BUILDING TO SOOTHE
It’s been tough, I know. Two pages ago, there was a mind numbing 2000 year argument over natural forms. Then there was the saran wrap page. Saran wrap? Seriously? So I thought I better...
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WOVEN DRAWING – VILLA SAVOYE
We introduced Woven Drawing as a Transparent Drawing Assembly few pages back. So to kick around some more one of our favorites, what about a Woven Villa Savoye? If you let your eye follow...
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
I didn’t know there was a LeCorbusier building in Tokyo. Yet there is. It is called the National Museum of Western Art. Many sources say that it is one of his least known buildings. ...
USE COMBINATION
Transparent Drawing is used to increase our knowledge in the following ways: -Use 1. Understand existing buildings and objects -Use 2. Form generation -Use 3. Real world solutions To this point, these three uses...
PRECEDENTS IN ARCHITECTURE
Some of the books that we have mentioned in these pages are by Ching, Lauseau, Jenkins, et. al. And they are great books. Elegant books. Theoretical books. Classic books. Yet all this theoretical power...
CHOISEY ONE POINT
Auguste Choisey, as we have seen, was a profound thinker. And he assiduously believed that his type of axonometric was the only way to draw. To recap, a Choisey Axonometric is the one where...
VILLA SAVOYE
Of all of the iconic buildings that I have been bombarded with over the decades, Villa Savoye always seems to be near the top. Every time that I see an image of this building,...
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