OPTIMISM QUOTIENT APPLICATION
We introduced the concept of the Optimism Quotient (OQ). Let’s make a crude / broad brush / thumbnail / back of a napkin attempt at applying the OQ to buildings and see what happens....
Monthly Archive: February 2016
OPTIMISM QUOTIENT
“…there is a sort of innate optimism in all works of the imagination” This thought, by Bachelard on page 153, is great. The act of imagining is optimistic. The act of problem solving is...
DRAWING IN AND OUT
“…the mind that imagines follows the opposite path of the mind that observes.” Bachelard, (p151 The Poetics of Space), proposes that observation is opposite to imagining. He is saying that the working of our...
AYRE HOTEL OVIEDO
Another travel related page as we are in Toronto this week. During our recent trip to northern Spain, we spent a night in the Ayre Hotel Oviedo, which was designed by Calatrava. Now, I...
ROCKPORT GRANITE
We are away this week. So I prepared this travel related page ahead of time. When you travel, you don’t have to limit yourselves to drawing buildings. I took me years to realize this. ...
VALUE MINIATURIZATION
“The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it. But in doing this it must be understood that values become condensed and enriched in miniature. One must go beyond logic...
BUCKY FULLER INSPIRATION
In my reading this weekend I came upon this inspirational quote from Buckminster Fuller. Reading Bucky is always a fuller inspiration. “Physics has found no solids! So to keep on teaching our children the...
CLIENT COGNITION
Client cognition. I have been looking for a term to describe one of the themes here at Transparent Drawing; client / designer interface. So I thought that client cognition would be an appropriate tag...
OVERWEIGHTING
I continue to be amazed by the design decisions that people make. Not just my clients. But everyone. How can it be that people are content to live in culturally historical dark boxes? How...
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