WORKING BALANCE
What are the marks that you make on the surface? What is your working balance? Are they lines? Does the term line confuse the issue? A line as defined by Euclidian modalities does...
Tagged: AUTOMATIC FORM
THE PROCESS IS THE MASSAGE
“What is needed is a process approach: each visual representation should be linked with its context of production.” Pauwels.
TAKE A DOT FOR A WALK
Paul Klee famously stated that a line is “a dot that went for a walk.” You make a dot when your pencil touches your paper, and that dot goes for a walk because of...
AUTHENTIC ANONYMITY
Rowe makes the point that Mies was concerned with anonymity. In Mies’ view, the idea was superordinant. The fact and the form were secondary. And this anonymity was deeply rooted in classicism. Beaux Arts...
THE TECHNOLOGY OF A PEN AND A PIECE OF PAPER
All over the news, pundits are covering the advance of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, etc. Most of them bemoan this new technological incursion. The New York Time’s coverage seemed to be slightly unique. ...
YOUR GEOMETRIC REPERTOIRE
If you are a designer, what do you do as design exercises? Athletes and musicians engage in strengthening exercises. If you are of the lingual bent, you develop sets of phonemes. As a...
OSKAR SCHLEMMER
Oskar Schlemmer was a German artist and choreographer, working right before WW II. He taught at the Bauhaus, and is known for his acclaimed work, The Triadic Ballet. (The music was by Hindemith!). I...
HAPTIC CURIOSITY
We manipulate forms with our hands automatically, without thinking about it. A large amount of this haptic manipulation, as well as our bodily locomotion, takes place so that the hidden may be revealed. We...
STEP BY STEP
We teach ourselves. The role of instructors / professors / et. al. is to foment learning. You (YES YOU!) then have to do what is necessary for the assimilation of knowledge. This is my...
ALL IN ALL IT’S JUST BRICKS IN THE WALL
While reading and annotating Norberg-Schulz’s Intentions in Architecture, I wrote “all in all it’s just bricks in the wall” three times in the margins. The book was all just words piled upon words. Tortuous...
THE ARCHITECTURAL IMAGE
In the seven years that I have been working on Transparent Drawing, I have done everything in my power to include other transparent thinkers. The third chapter of my book does just that. ...
TRANSCENTAL FORM
Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, is focused on what he calls pure, or transcendental form, and how it comes to be. Are the forms that we generate transcendental, and would Kant agree? ...
INPUT – OUTPUT
For the first time, we generate a holistic form in real time, using the fundamentals of Transparent Drawing. The provenance quotient is 100. The authenticity is verified. It is all analogue. There is no...
DESIGN A BARN
Let’s design a new barn with Transparent Drawing tools. I thought it would be fun to start with barn forms, and then see how they might help format an entirely new barn. The Drawing...
BOOK UPDATE
In one month from today, the book, Transparent Drawing, will be released. That is according to my publisher’s listing on CoreSource, a US distribution platform. So how do I think it will stack up?...
WET PROOFS
BOOK LAUNCH UPDATE. Rachel at Black Dog Press just sent this photo of the wet proofs of the book. After a bit of research, I learned that wet proofs are done by the printer...
ACTS OF RESISTANCE
In the November 2019 print issue of ArchitectureBoston, Nalina Moses structures a great defense and call to arms regarding what, in these pages, we call drawing. The article can be found online here. “Architects...
INK STICK ASSEMBLY
Ink Stick is a new Transparent Drawing Assembly. And the name says it all: you draw with a stick. Or a feather. Or the end of a broken off pencil. Or with a piece...
ROCKET ENGINES
It was a hot night and the TV image was grainy. Apollo 11 had already landed on the moon, and Armstrong’s moon walk started at around 11 PM. I was working on the large...
ON LINE AND FORM
When does a line become a form? Can a line be a form? What happens to a line when it integrates form? These were the questions I was asking myself as I did the...
AUTOMATIC FORM 2
Automatic Form was introduced a few pages ago. That page also touched on historical precedents, which include automatic writing, automatic drawing, etc. I now want to break this down by taking a closer look...
AMBIGUITY MODE
Usually, when I put a drawing together with different media, or media in a different order, I have been able to assign a new drawing mode. Some of the modes that have been established...
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