INSIDE OUT
Charles Ellis, who is an architect and educator, wrote to express what he sees as the inside out aspects of Transparent Drawing. He goes on to say that he also like to design from...
Category: PRODUCT REVIEW
SUI GENERIS
Dubuffet, as reported by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker, educates us on the Art Brut movement which the artist Dubuffet championed. While I have not had a chance to see the Dubuffet show...
ANDO IN WILLIAMSTOWN
We willingly go far and wide to see museums. So it was great to see a museum practically in our back yard; Ando’s addition to The Clark in Williamstown. These pages have addressed the...
PICASSO AT MOMA 1
How could there be such free composition, such deft assembly, and such humor? In every piece? This show has to be considered the motherlode. I believe that the entirety of modernism, if not the...
MARTIN PURYEAR
I had the highest hopes for this drawing show at the Cooper Hewett. The New York Times review was titled “Martin Puryear, Multiple Dimensions.” From this review, “His commitment to three dimensions endures even...
ALGORITHMIC DESIGN
In the Huffington Post Arts and Culture section, there is an article titled “Towards a Science of Design” by Lance Hosey. As the title suggests, the author is expressing the oft lamented duality of...
SKETCH DIGITIZATION
While the arc of the sketch universe it long, it bends toward digitization. My apologies to Martin Luther King. I am a Luddite. Anyone who thinks that the answer is one pencil, one piece...
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...
DRAWN TO DESIGN 2
A few weeks ago, Eric Jenkens, very kindly responded to my comments on his book, Drawn To Design. Link here to that post. And Eric’s comments can be seen to the right side of...
DRAWING MUSEUM
Sergei Tchoban just gave a lecture at Cornell on the topic of his Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin. I was not able to attend, principally because I found out about the lecture on...
DRAWN TO DESIGN 1
Drawn to Design, by Eric Jenkins, is a book about architectural drawing. I was not aware of the book when I started Transparent Drawing. It was thru a Linkedin connection that it was brought...
MISSING ASSOCIATIONS
Associations are very important. This has been said many times in these pages. And has also been said here, the means the methods of strengthening these associations is completely missing from our architectural /...
LIPPITY LANGUAGE
One of the core beliefs of Transparent Drawing is the primacy of the visual. Another core belief is that the scientific and artistic methods are identical. Here is a link to a past post...
STEPPING OUTSIDE OUR CULTURE
Philip Glass’ book, Words Without Music, is an inspirational and humble look into the mind of a famous creator. When I read books like this, I like to keep an eye on some of...
THINK AHEAD OF THE ROBOTS
An article in the New York Times today talks about higher education’s need to teach their students the skills necessary to remain relevant in face of the robotic revolution. The article mentions how a...
TRANSPARENT BRAIN
The current issue of The New Yorker chronicles the efforts of Karl Deisseroth to understand how the brain works. Mr. Deisseroth is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Stanford. And he has led groundbreaking efforts...
TRANSPARENT WEAVING
We ran across the weaving of Ethel Stein at the Art Institute of Chicago last fall. She is a mater weaver who, at 96 years old, is only now coming into the recognition that...
ARCHITECT BLOGS OF NOTE
There are two architect blogs that pertain to sketching, watercolors and architecture that are fun to check out. Frank Harmon, who is an architect, has a nice blog titled Native Places. This link was...
VISUAL SERENDIPITY
A word that I keep coming back to is associative. If our drawings promote and foster associations in our minds, then they have added value. And we have mentioned Google Images as a medium...
PRESENTING ARCHITECTURE
It was nice to be invited by Robert Becker over at Presenting Architecture to list Transparent Drawing at his site. Presenting Architecture is a compendium of the work of those who, well, present architecture....
FULL CIRCLE TRANSPARENCY
Thomas French, one of our far flung correspondents, sent an interesting and related note. This regards the PBS series Time Scanners. So that engineers may understand in greater depth the structural integrity of the...
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