The development of the perspective should be seen as a natural component of the rational development of the human mind. Certainly the development of the perspective can be understood given our propensity for mathmatization...
The Mould Manifesto by the painter Hunderwasser is hugely entertaining and inspirational. In his manifesto, he decries the use of straight lines in architecture. And what painter uses straight lines? Think of almost any...
The building is built. The design was done the best that you could have done. Yet I find it interesting to pursue the what if scenarios. What if, for example, there would not have...
Thomas French, one of our far flung correspondents, sent an interesting and related note. This regards the PBS series Time Scanners. So that engineers may understand in greater depth the structural integrity of the...
“The maple-wood blocks…are in my fingers to this day.” This is the famous quote by Frank Lloyd Wright touting his kindergarten experiences with the maple block sets that were ubiquitous then. And we have...
A critical component of the creative conceptual process is when and how we retrieve our associations. As has been discussed earlier, our drawing makes direct deposits in our association database. When we draw, the...
Transparent Drawing requires that you draw lines and then put tones between the lines. At least that is what I do. We should give some of our attention to the matter of tones and...
Our correspondent Mike reminds us of Gerald Rietveld’s Schroder Residence in Utrecht. Indeed, this building was one that I continued to gaze at thru the iconic book images as a student. I won’t bore...
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