Monthly Archive: November 2014

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CAVE DRAWINGS

When we were traveling in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, we of course visited many caves which were carved out of the rock. Cappadocia is famous for cave dwellings and cave churches. Cappadocia is...

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MIND MAPPING

A huge thank you to Denys Levassort over at Mind-Mapping-Decision.com. The link to Denys’ site is here http://www.mind-mapping-decision.com     Although I do not speak French, Denys offers services in which mind mapping is applied to...

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INNOCENCE LOST

The more that I work on this project, the more I think back to my educational experience in Architecture School.  And I continue to ponder on how we generate the forms that we create. ...

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LOGIC OF IMAGES

“I am inclined to believe that the logic of images is the prime mover of constructive imagination.” This quote is taken from Arnheim, who is quoting Ribot. When we have a concept or thought...

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SURREALIST VISUAL FACTS

The Surrealists formed between the wars in Paris. They found suspect our cultural over reliance on words. Some previous thoughts on the literary dichotomy here.  The Surrealist and subsequent Dada movements were founded to...

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WEISENHOF HOUSING ESTATE

During the birth of modernism, the Weisenhof Housing exhibition has loomed large as a historical marker. In 1927, between the wars, the German government mounted the Deutcher Werkbund exhibition. This exhibition was established so...

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EARLY EXPLORERS

As I read the far more scholarly and researched texts of others, it is always exciting to realize that early explorers have tread this pathway before us. Although they have not given us the...

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GREEK DICHOTOMY

Our culture puts logical discourse ahead of visual discourse.  This predilection started with the Greeks:  the early Greek thinkers essentially disparaged sensory experience. Instead they encouraged the rigorous application of words and numbers. In...