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...
Tagged: TRANSPARENT DRAWING
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...
PERCEPTUAL THINKING
Let’s try teaching our scientists to think like artists. One of the themes of these pages is the confluence of art and science. We have talked about scientists using the same language as artists....
IS CONTEXT THE NEW CONTENT?
The title above is a quote by Kenneth Goldsmith in his collection of essays titled “Uncreative Writing.” Goldsmith is a conceptual poet. Yet his ideas regarding the provenance of our ideas, specifically within...
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...
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...
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...
VISUAL CAUSALITY
It is accepted wisdom that we base our understanding of the world on repeated observations of cause and effect. Billiard balls will bounce off of each other in a very predictable way. The coffee...
NO TRANSPARENT PAINTING
This is the last post on the Rowe and Slutsky essay that we have been following this week. Rowe and Slutsky focus solely on oil painting in their discussion of Literal and Phenomenal transparency....
THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE
In a previous post, we considered Rowe and Slutsky’s Literal and Phenomenal transparency meditation on the picture plane. (Rowe & Slutzky, Transparency, Literal and Phenomenal) After their clear and interesting description of the two...
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...
LANGUAGE OF TRANSPARENCY
Please consider the following passage from Kepes’ Language of Vision; “If one sees two or more figures overlapping one another, and each of them claims for itself the common overlapped part, then one is...
TECHNIQUE DESIGN
Technique is culturally biased. We have already established that there is a cultural approbation of drawing technique. Since drawing controls how we think, then how we design is culturally engrained. And this is difficult...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING METHOD
What if we were taught form generation simply for the enjoyment of form generation? What if we were given the tools, an approach, a philosophy for pure enclosure and form generation? This would be...
SHAMELESS DUMB CAT
Sex and dumb cat photos sells. I’m sorry to have to report that since I posted Sexy Sketches, the pageviews to Transparent Drawing have tripled. And since I have made it perfectly clear that...
THE HALO EFFECT
First impressions are hugely important. The halo effect is a psychological term given to describe this first impression. We develop a cognitive bias toward a person based on initial impressions, and this bias continues...
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...
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...
PREDICT THE FUTURE
Are our design predictions accurate? How complete is our design understanding? Are we completely unsurprised when we walk into a building that we designed for the first time? Can we say we accurately predicted...
THE ROMANCE OF IT ALL
Is the act of drawing better than the drawing? Yes. If the act of drawing is a sacred act, then the place that you draw also becomes sacred. I am always very interested to...
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...
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