RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY
Riemannian geometry is a branch of mathematics that studies curves in three dimensional Euclidean space. I was interested in the image that I found below, which then resulted in my transparent drawing above. Categorize...
Tagged: FORM GENERATION
HILBERT SPACE
How many dimensions can we draw in? If we are within Hilbert Space, then the number of dimensions is infinite. David Hilbert was a great mathematician working in the early part of the 1900s. ...
VIDEO – FORM GENERATION – LOTUS FLOWER
It is exciting to offer the first Transparent Drawing video titled Form Generation – Lotus Flower. Form Generation, as faithful readers have come to understand, is one of the three Uses of Transparent Drawing. ...
USE COMBINATION
Transparent Drawing is used to increase our knowledge in the following ways: -Use 1. Understand existing buildings and objects -Use 2. Form generation -Use 3. Real world solutions To this point, these three uses...
FORM GENERATION FROM CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
I generated the drawing above from the drawing below. With a 0.5 mm felt tip, I did a volumetric projection of the flying buttress image. I ended up taking liberties with the geometry. Yet...
YOU’VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE
Picasso said, that when drawing, “You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.” That is a powerful thought, given that it applies to our continued search for the means and...
IMPROVISATION
If you look at a painting in a certain way, you can begin to see the space. At first blush, a look at this DeKooning painting, titled Gansevoort Street, you might think that it...
EXACT OBSERVATIONS
Ellsworth Kelly on his plant drawings: “They are exact observations…Nothing is changed or added: no shading, no surface marking. They are not an approximation of the thing seen nor are they a personal expression...
FORM COMBINE 2
Here is another Form Combine. This is the result of the combination, or overlay, of two Henry Moore drawing projection. The drawing at the top is the one that I did first. I found...
ARTISTIC SIDESTEP
“But Kelberman’s project is, in addition, a visual world-building that explicitly sidesteps not only the language of antiquity and classicism but also any suggestion of “artistic” image making. Her choices are brightly colored,...
SCIENTIFIC ICONS
Mike makes a really good point. In his reply to The Pencil Marks On The Paper, he states that engineering graphs give a more complete and intuitive understanding than the mathematical characters which produce...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS
I tried out a water soluble pencil this morning. I didn’t know they existed. I was looking thru the Dick Blick pages, and then realized something like this was made. So I ordered a...
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...
POETIC IMMORTALS
On a recent excursion thru the Metropolitan Museum, I came upon these ink drawings, shown below, of famous Japanese poets. The drawings were done by Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) and are titled The 36 Poetic...
PAINTING DIMENSIONALIZATION
These pages have taken many directions. Yet one that I keep coming back to is using the oil paintings of Le Corbusier and Picasso as generators for my Transparent Drawings. Let’s call this painting...
I FANTASIZE
I’ve been doing this for about three years now. Three years seems like nothing. Like they say, it is never work when you enjoy what you do. And it never feels like work to...
DESIGN MONEY
Money. Money is the talisman of our self-regard. We carefully monitor the quantity as a way to shape our actions. It is a fundamental societal currency. It is a proxy for gauging societal achievement....
INFINITE PERSPECTIVES
The simultaneous multiple viewpoints represented by Cubism informs our work. For example, this statement from an early French cubist painter in 1912 essentially describes the transparent drawing method; “I see and represent an object,...
SCARPA SYNESTHETICS
Carlos Scarpa has always been a hero. So it was with great interest when I came across this passage in Harry Mallgrave’s The Architect’s Brain; Neuroscience, Creativity and Architecture. This quote is attributed to...
SUPERFICIAL IMAGES
Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida have all argued that the dominance of vision in our culture has only served to separate ourselves from the world. While I don’t agree with this premise, I do understand...
SPECTATOR CULTURE
The other evening, we made a design presentation in front of a municipal board for a new building. As usual, we brought in an architectural massing model. And we always work to give the...
CREATIVE DETAIL
We need to share details of our creative methods and processes. A couple of pages ago, I lamented that we don’t share any of the creative details of how we are inspired. For example,...
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