Monthly Archive: December 2014

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BEWARE OF THE MANIFOLDNESS

Over the centuries, we have developed nearly a cultural fear of the visual.  A couple of links to past posts here and here for a bit more background.  And if you don’t believe any...

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PRESENTING ARCHITECTURE

It was nice to be invited by Robert Becker over at Presenting Architecture to list Transparent Drawing at his site. Presenting Architecture is a compendium of the work of those who, well, present architecture....

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REAL WORLD 2

Everyone understands Transparent Drawing.  At least if someone doesn’t, they have had the great courtesy to not tell me. A few months ago, I posted Real World Transparent Drawings.  These are drawings that I...

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SYMBOLS

When is a drawing a symbol? Is it good if our drawings are symbols? The very use of the word symbol connotes a far higher import than does image, or sketch. Can you imagine...

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PICASSO AND THE CHICKEN

Have you heard the one about Picasso and the Chicken? If so, feel free to stop reading this and find something better to read. Our tangential introduction of slow learning does bring to mind...

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SLOW LEARNING

If you have persevered thru any of Transparent Drawing, one of the sub themes that I continue to harp on is our culturally divergent approach between logical thinking and visual thinking. Quick links to...

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STRUCTURAL ESSENCE

Productive thinking. This is what we all want to do. We want to be as productive as we can when we problem solve.  For the greatest productivity, we need to be thinking about the...

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PALIMPSEST

Nothing is hidden in a palimpsest. Palimpsest typically applies to written pages.  Some of the most famous examples are of an 800 year old Codex in which the same parchment was reused after previous...

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CHING 1

Francis Ching, in his book Architectural Graphics, has been another huge influence, to architects at least. He writes that “Drawing is…a cognitive act that involves visual perception, judgement and reasoning of spatial…relationships.” page VIII. ...