Monthly Archive: August 2014

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HISTORY

MILITARY AXONOMETRIC

The use of parallel line drawing first came into wide use for the design of military fortresses.  In light of the general invasionary tendencies in the 15th and 16th centuries, impregnability was foremost on...

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INTRODUCTION

VIEWPOINT

Drawing representationally requires that a viewpoint be specified. In CAD systems, you have to pick a point in space from where the viewer’s eyes are. In the Renaissance, the viewer was given a single...

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HOW TO

YOU CANNOT NOT DRAW HISTORY

I guess one fundamental motivation for this project is to give architecture students a format with which to overcome what I continue to see as the passive teaching of architectural history. I characterize this...

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EXAMPLES

EXCEPTIONAL BARN 1

There is a unique barn shape that I have only seen in Central Upstate New York. The examples that I know of are around Seneca Falls. They look very organic and wedded to the...

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HOW TO

IS ARCHITECTURE ART?

In these pages, we have stated that we are not creating art in our drawings.  And because we are not creating art, then we must not be artists.  So if the drawings that we...

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HISTORY

STEREOMETRIC TRANSPARENCY

The stereometric method is what I would call a transparent approach to the forming of objects.  Gabo created a piece titled Two Cubes (Demonstrating the Stereometric Method.)  In this piece, one cube expresses the...