EARLY PERSPECTIVE THINKERS
During the 1620s, Francis Bacon, a Franciscan monk, composed the Opus Majus. This was intended to be a compendium of the knowledge of the world. As we may expect from a Franciscan monk, he...
Monthly Archive: March 2015
ARCHITECT BLOGS OF NOTE
There are two architect blogs that pertain to sketching, watercolors and architecture that are fun to check out. Frank Harmon, who is an architect, has a nice blog titled Native Places. This link was...
CROWN HALL HOMAGE
One of the themes that has developed in these pages is the worship of famous buildings. At first, I was not sure why I was compelled to draw famous buildings. But now I get...
THREE DIMENSIONAL SOUL
Bernhard Hoetger was a sculptor who also designed buildings. In 1928, he wrote. “We want no inhibitions and checks by recipes, we want the free spirit to find its own laws. The creative moment...
VISUAL SERENDIPITY
A word that I keep coming back to is associative. If our drawings promote and foster associations in our minds, then they have added value. And we have mentioned Google Images as a medium...
DRAWING IS DEAD
I respectfully note the passing of Michael Graves, Architect, who died yesterday at the age of 80. The Postmodern Movement, which Graves championed, was gaining its’ full strength while I was in architecture school....
THE 3D SOLID PROBLEM
All we can draw are planes. We cannot render the volume inside a solid. In the drawing above, there is a solid and a void within the cube. The dark green solid part is...
SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION
Stanislaw Ulam, speaking in Los Alamos in 1944. “I found out that the main ability to have was a visual, and also an almost tactile, way to imagine the physical situation, rather than a...
DREAM DRAWING
Mr. Manish Udar, in a recent contribution to the LinkedIn conversation that can be found here, mentioned the phenomenon of analogue drawings triggering dreams. I wonder if any one else has had a dream...
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
To operate successfully in science, you first advance a hypothesis. And then you have to make a judgement on this hypothesis based on direct empirical observation. In design, our we make empirical observations based...
BETWEEN CONCEPTION AND REPRESENTATION
I have shown my clients Transparent Drawings, and this has only increased their enthusiasm and excitement toward the design. There is a competitive advantage to the presentation of rational and explanatory hand drawings. And...
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