Monthly Archive: June 2020

June 23, 2020

NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM

Christopher Alexander, with their book A Pattern Language, has been a celestial reference from the beginning. So I was intrigued when I realized that they wrote Notes On The Synthesis of Form. He provides...

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June 11, 2020

FORM REDUCTION

The only term that I can come up with for the drawing above is Form Reduction. It is a systematic approach, and it reduces a form from Edge, to Plane, to Line, to Dot....

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June 5, 2020

RETURN TO DRAWING

The web pages titled Return to Drawing caught my attention. It is a beautiful expose on analogue drawing. Rick and Cindy Black, Architects in Austin, are the authors. Their approach to drawing can be...

“The nature of space-matter, being soul-like, is such that the more whole it becomes, the more transparent, the more it seems to melt, the more it realizes itself, releases its own inner reality, the more transparent it becomes, the more transcendent.” Alexander.

“When an object becomes observable, measurable, and quantifiable, it already has become civilized; the disciplinary organization of civilization extends its subjection to the object in the very way it makes it knowable.” Lynch.

“The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read is that of nature; all other books are taken from it. And in them there are the mistakes and misinterpretations of men.” Gaudi.

Monthly Archive: June 2020

NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM

FORM REDUCTION

RETURN TO DRAWING

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