DRAWING NOT DRAWING
There are four requirements for a drawing, an analogue drawing. Pencil. Paper. Hand. Brain. If any of these items are missing, it is not a drawing. If to make your image, you input digitally,...
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ANALOGUE DRAWING
So what do we mean by analogue drawing? These pages use this term frequently. What are the minimum requirements of analogue drawing? Physicality. Physical gesture. Bodily act. Drawing must provide and maintain a direct,...
FORM COMBINE
Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist. In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing...
POST-DIGITAL DRAWING
In Metropolis Magazine, Sam Jacob wrote a piece titled Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing. The concept of the article is that, in the beginning, architects drew. Then the juggernaut of the machine...
THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.” Kurt Gödel. Wang, Hao. From Mathematics to Philosophy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. p. 95
INFORMED OR INVENTIVE
Your Transparent Drawing is either informed or inventive. INFORMED Informed drawing documents what you know. For example, a few pages ago, we addressed the SURVEY DRAWING. A survey drawing is informed drawing: you use...
DRAW WHAT YOU KNOW
Peter Eisenman: “…to allow the subject to have a vision of space that can no longer be put together in the normalizing, classicizing or traditional construct of vision.” “A possible first step in conceptualizing...
HOUSE NOT HOUSE
Would our art be advanced if we eliminated nouns from our design vocabulary? Bachelard advises us that if we want to find the essence of something, we should look to the adjectives. He writes...
SURVEY DRAWING
The act of seeing is one of creation. When we see a building, we need to open ourselves to as wide a bandwith as possible. Belardi, in his “No Day Without a Line” lecture...
SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE
In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...
PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION
Is there a difference between perception and imagination? That is to ask, is the feeling of perception and the feeling of imagination similar? Let’s think for a moment about the everyday act of perception. ...
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