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...
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THE LESS FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS
We have been following two modernist phenomenons in these pages, the Weisenhof housing estate and Le Corbusier. Put those two together, and we see what Corb built for the housing project. I always find...
REGRESSION TO THE MEAN
I think that if I keep finding these psychologically oriented topics, I will need to create another category to this blog. I am finding that a psychological understanding of the client’s process something that...
FIGURE GROUND, A TRANSPARENT DEFINITION
Webster’s defines figure ground as follows: a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background....
YOUR CLIENT’S BRAIN
We have been considering what is happening when your client hates your design. We have discussed both emotional and logical responses of our clients. So it was with great interest to learn about a...
THROW OUT THE GARBAGE
I really like completing a drawing and then posting it the same day. Somehow, the immediacy of this action is better than posting a drawing done say two years ago. I was thinking about...
A TRANSPARENT PARADISE
Paul Scheerbart in 1914 wrote, “We live for the most part within enclosed spaces. These form the environment from which our culture grows. Our culture is in a sense a product of our architecture....
SMELLS LIKE MALIC MOULDS
Malic Moulds are, of course, what Duchamp calls the forms he “drew” on his Large Glass. Given my almost fetishistic interest in Duschamp, I have a term that I use when the forms on...
PUTTING MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS
When you use the work of another as a starting point, it is amazing how quickly what you are working on becomes your own. I get great enjoyment and inspiration from the paintings and...
EMOTIONAL FORMS
There is no question that we continually search for new forms. These might take the shape of a watch, a phone or a building. But as enclosure designers we truly are searching for novel...
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 /...
HEARILIZATION IS NOT A WORD
I continue to be captivated by Philip Glass’ use of the word visualize in his book Words Without Music when describing his creative process. Before this, I had never thought that music composition employed...
A LECORBUSIER MINDSET
LeCorbusier itemized, in his Five Points Towards a New Architecture, his basic planning principals on how to approach design. The first four points address the structure, roof gardens, open plans, and horizontal windows, all...
FAMOUS CREATIVE MINDS
Noguchi tells us, “Primarily, what we carry around with us is a memory of our childhood, back when each day held the magic of discovering the world.” It seems to me that there are...
KNEE JERK DESIGN
As should be clear by now, representational drawing is by definition based on the exclusion of information. Opaque objects hide what’s behind them. And what you can’t see, you can’t process. Kahneman, in Thinking...
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...
FAMILIAR HURT
Humans are very comfortable with the familiar. There is the old adage that we are creatures of habit. And I would surmise that this is entirely true. We are comfortable with the tried and...
INFINITY IS SILLY
The linear perspective represents infinity. In a one point perspective drawing, the vanishing point is infinity. When you think about the fact that infinity is represented on your paper with a pencil dot, it...
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...
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