Monthly Archive: December 2018

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SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOLSTICE

“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible;  I think we must believe that...

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WOVEN DRAWING

What is woven drawing?  This is where you draw the form as if it is woven.  Typically, a weaving is a matrix of linear elements that, by overlapping each other as they cross, form...

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SURFACE TO SKELETON

The Grasshopper algorithmic design software has a feature called ‘surface to skeleton.’  Once you have a form established, this feature allows a generation of what they call a skeleton of the structure.  While I’m...

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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...

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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...