Psychological growth is never part of a building program. Have you ever discussed with your clients the potential for emotional development or increasing personal freedom? I have yet to discuss with my clients the...
I had the highest hopes for this drawing show at the Cooper Hewett. The New York Times review was titled “Martin Puryear, Multiple Dimensions.” From this review, “His commitment to three dimensions endures even...
There is a transparent drawing at MOMA! During our travels last week, we were in MOMA in NYC. While we were there to see the Picasso sculpture show, we waded thru the crowds to...
Given our travel schedule this week, this is another page of travel related drawing. I noted that I seem to have a fondness for moving bridges. The example at the top of the page...
We are traveling this week. So I have prepared ahead of time a couple of thoughts and impressions of our past travels. An iconic image of Northern Spain are what are called horreo, or...
I have been using the beautiful graphics of Islamic writing as a way of generating forms. I have been using Islamic calligraphy as a graphic to generate ideas. I continue to think of the...
It finally happened. I made an in situ transparent drawing in a cloister in northern Spain. In these pages I’ve been extolling the virtues, ad nauseam, of drawing from photographs on your phone. I’m...
From The Poetics of Space: “Even in an art like painting, which bears witness to a skill, the important successes take place independently of skill.” 1 A meta mantra in these pages is that...
I listen to a lot of music. And as I listen, I always think about the improvisatory quality of what I am hearing. If you can play a piece of written music and it...
We don’t understand our client’s brain. Yet we should. We should understand the mental landscape of how design decisions are made. This requires an understanding of risk, satisfaction, choice and cost. One of the...
Psychologists apply the term endowment effect to the value that a person puts on something when they own it. For most items that we own, because we own them, we endow them with a...
Utility theory is a sociological term used to quantify satisfaction. Economists have devised theorems which attempt to give ways to measure the satisfaction that we derive from items that we buy. The best definition...
Show me the facts. Where’s the facts? Just the facts, maam. Architects and designers need more facts. If we can establish visual facts, we will operate with a much higher degree of objectivity. The...
In the Huffington Post Arts and Culture section, there is an article titled “Towards a Science of Design” by Lance Hosey. As the title suggests, the author is expressing the oft lamented duality of...
A great advantage to having your daughter study architecture is that you are exposed to books that you did not know existed. Our daughter was reading from Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space this Thanksgiving....
Architecture is a rich, multi-sensory experience. There is great sensory overlap to our sensory input. It is richly three dimensional and simultaneous. We should therefore push ourselves to include as much of this overlapping...
At the confluence of the analog and the digital, we need to reference as many analogue instances that we can so as to continue to demonstrate the validity of what we are about. We...
Most of our input to computers is 2D. Why is the majority of our input not directly into 3D? For our daily, run of the mill, typical interaction with 3D digital systems, we spend...
The word volumetric is replacing the word pictorial. To operate optimally, we can no longer think in pictorial terms. We must think volumetrically. Case in point. Thomas French, one of our venerable far flung...
We spoke about digital to digital. We spoke about free or low cost scan apps for our devices. Now, someone needs to write an app that takes a scan of our analogue transparent drawing...
Last week, I mentioned how we are on an unstoppable arc toward digitization. Our sacred act of analogue drawing is being skewed toward digitization. Yet there are technologies which help integrate our analogue drawings...
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