THE CULTURAL DIALOGUE OF FORMS
The forms that you design becomes markers of social order. Our forms, our stuff, our crap, becomes talismans of cultural value. Forms are a cultural road map: they are in direct conversation with the...
Tagged: DESIGN PROVENANCE
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...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN
Provenance. Authenticity. I kept thinking about these concepts as I read the interesting and funny article by Nick Paumgarten in the 22 Oct. issue of The New Yorker, which discusses blockchains. The article focuses...
100% HUMAN
At Transparent Drawing, the only drawing that has value is one that is produced analogue. If the graphic is not 100% analogue, you can’t call it a drawing. See ANALOGUE DRAWING. And the...
GREAT CLIENTS
We are adept, as a profession, about describing Great Buildings. But what about Great Clients? This occurred to me as I sit here in Lisbon and make another drawing of Casa Battlo. The previous...
WORDLESS ART
“Architecture seems to be confined to drawings and hope. Can this essentially wordless art – that is, this art that lies just beyond the reach of words – negotiate the barriers of its present...
CORB IN THE M’ZAB VALLEY
In the 23 May 2016 issue of The New Yorker, Julie Belcove writes about a new architectural exhibition that is being constructed in the Guggenheim. The artist is Kader Attia, and he has set...
DRAWING ON AIRPLANES
We are traveling this week. So I prepared this travel related post ahead of time. You’re probably tired of hearing me extol the virtues of drawing...
SOCIETAL KNOWLEDGE
In these pages, we have bemoaned the subjugation of the visual and the elevation of language. Let’s look a bit closer at how language actually works so we can see what we are up...
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