HILBERT SPACE
How many dimensions can we draw in? If we are within Hilbert Space, then the number of dimensions is infinite. David Hilbert was a great mathematician working in the early part of the 1900s. ...
Monthly Archive: July 2018
NOTE TAKING
I’ve started to draw in a slightly new way. And the best way I can describe it is that I am taking notes. For most of my drawings of existing buildings, I have devoted...
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...
PAIN AND ARCHITECTURE
The scientific study of pain is evolving to a great degree; they can now quantify it. This has import for architecture. While this may sound crazy, let’s look at the link between pain and...
THRESHOLD OF FORM COMPREHENSION
Is there a threshold for form knowledge? That is to ask, can we draw so that we are at the threshold of form comprehension? Is there a form threshold? This question was asked a...
QUANTIFIABLE ARCHITECTURE
Let’s establish Quantifiable Architecture. Architecture should be quantified. Architecture can be quantified. That is to say, metrics can be established which give numerical values to aspects and features of our buildings. And we establish...
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. ...
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