VOLUMETRIC, NOT PICTORIAL
The word volumetric is replacing the word pictorial. To operate optimally, we can no longer think in pictorial terms. We must think volumetrically. Case in point. Thomas French, one of our venerable far flung...
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SUBURBAN GROUND EFFECTS
We are traveling this week. So I offer these brief posts on various topics that I have prepared ahead of time. Although this may not exactly be the most burning design question, what would...
YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE
I like to look at the basic geometries of Le Corbusier’s paintings for inspiration for my drawings. The image above was loosely structured around this painting, titled Icone 3, by Corb. When you find...
CHURCH OF THE LIGHT
It turns out, there is more to this iconic piece of architecture than the cruciform end wall. It turns out that there are two walls in this building with a cruciform end wall. It...
SEXY SKETCHES
They say that there are two things that intrigue people the most on the internet, sex and stupid cat photos. If you don’t know it by now, there is no sex here. For that...
TRANSPARENT RUINS
Architects love ruins. I think that is because that thru the general decay of a building over a long period of time, the essence of the building is revealed. It is as if the...
THE LESS FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS
We have been following two modernist phenomenons in these pages, the Weisenhof housing estate and Le Corbusier. Put those two together, and we see what Corb built for the housing project. I always find...
SMELLS LIKE MALIC MOULDS
Malic Moulds are, of course, what Duchamp calls the forms he “drew” on his Large Glass. Given my almost fetishistic interest in Duschamp, I have a term that I use when the forms on...
PUTTING MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS
When you use the work of another as a starting point, it is amazing how quickly what you are working on becomes your own. I get great enjoyment and inspiration from the paintings and...
THE FIRST TRANSPARENT DRAWING?
Why does everything always lead back to Duschamp? I’ve been pondering this question for quite some time now. Maybe it is just me, but in my continuing quest for new form generation methods, so...
RANDOM MODERNIST BUILDING
Sometimes a building that you see stays in your imagination. This happened recently during a visit to Vancouver. While riding bicycles around the city, we happened to ride past this random modernist pavilion which...
CONVERSATION FORMS
The above drawing depicts something that I call Conversation Forms. The idea is that each of our thoughts, precepts, etc. can be summarized by a three dimensional polygonal form. This form would be established...
CROWN HALL HOMAGE
One of the themes that has developed in these pages is the worship of famous buildings. At first, I was not sure why I was compelled to draw famous buildings. But now I get...
DREAM DRAWING
Mr. Manish Udar, in a recent contribution to the LinkedIn conversation that can be found here, mentioned the phenomenon of analogue drawings triggering dreams. I wonder if any one else has had a dream...
THE CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIOUS
We visited Vancouver and Seattle last week. We absolutely love to hit a city and then immediately start exploring it. And many times we don’t have a specific itinerary of places to visit and...
THE FOURTH DIMENSION
To this point, we have concerned ourselves with drawing in three dimensions. We have discussed some of the limitations of the linear renaissance perspective system. And believe it or not, another limitation of the...
CARPENTER CENTER UNDERSTANDING
We made a pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center in Cambridge, MA recently. This might have been the third time that I was there. School had not started yet so we were able to...
BERLIN PHILHARMONIE
Hans Scharoun was one of my early heroes. Here was a modernist, yet one who embraced organic geometries and responsive enclosures. I do believe that it was Scharoun’s organic pieces, most notably the Berlin...
REAL WORLD 2
Everyone understands Transparent Drawing. At least if someone doesn’t, they have had the great courtesy to not tell me. A few months ago, I posted Real World Transparent Drawings. These are drawings that I...
MIND MAPPING
A huge thank you to Denys Levassort over at Mind-Mapping-Decision.com. The link to Denys’ site is here http://www.mind-mapping-decision.com Although I do not speak French, Denys offers services in which mind mapping is applied to...
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