NO TRANSPARENT PAINTING
This is the last post on the Rowe and Slutsky essay that we have been following this week. Rowe and Slutsky focus solely on oil painting in their discussion of Literal and Phenomenal transparency....
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THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE
In a previous post, we considered Rowe and Slutsky’s Literal and Phenomenal transparency meditation on the picture plane. (Rowe & Slutzky, Transparency, Literal and Phenomenal) After their clear and interesting description of the two...
CHURCH OF THE LIGHT
It turns out, there is more to this iconic piece of architecture than the cruciform end wall. It turns out that there are two walls in this building with a cruciform end wall. It...
LITERAL AND PHENOMENAL
Rowe and Slutsky point out in their essay on transparency, Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, there are two types of transparency, Literal and Phenomenal. Literal is what they call a material condition. Think typical glass...
LANGUAGE OF TRANSPARENCY
Please consider the following passage from Kepes’ Language of Vision; “If one sees two or more figures overlapping one another, and each of them claims for itself the common overlapped part, then one is...
TECHNIQUE DESIGN
Technique is culturally biased. We have already established that there is a cultural approbation of drawing technique. Since drawing controls how we think, then how we design is culturally engrained. And this is difficult...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING METHOD
What if we were taught form generation simply for the enjoyment of form generation? What if we were given the tools, an approach, a philosophy for pure enclosure and form generation? This would be...
SHAMELESS DUMB CAT
Sex and dumb cat photos sells. I’m sorry to have to report that since I posted Sexy Sketches, the pageviews to Transparent Drawing have tripled. And since I have made it perfectly clear that...
THE HALO EFFECT
First impressions are hugely important. The halo effect is a psychological term given to describe this first impression. We develop a cognitive bias toward a person based on initial impressions, and this bias continues...
SEXY SKETCHES
They say that there are two things that intrigue people the most on the internet, sex and stupid cat photos. If you don’t know it by now, there is no sex here. For that...
DRAWING MUSEUM
Sergei Tchoban just gave a lecture at Cornell on the topic of his Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin. I was not able to attend, principally because I found out about the lecture on...
PREDICT THE FUTURE
Are our design predictions accurate? How complete is our design understanding? Are we completely unsurprised when we walk into a building that we designed for the first time? Can we say we accurately predicted...
THE ROMANCE OF IT ALL
Is the act of drawing better than the drawing? Yes. If the act of drawing is a sacred act, then the place that you draw also becomes sacred. I am always very interested to...
TRANSPARENT RUINS
Architects love ruins. I think that is because that thru the general decay of a building over a long period of time, the essence of the building is revealed. It is as if the...
DRAWN TO DESIGN 1
Drawn to Design, by Eric Jenkins, is a book about architectural drawing. I was not aware of the book when I started Transparent Drawing. It was thru a Linkedin connection that it was brought...
THE LESS FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS
We have been following two modernist phenomenons in these pages, the Weisenhof housing estate and Le Corbusier. Put those two together, and we see what Corb built for the housing project. I always find...
REGRESSION TO THE MEAN
I think that if I keep finding these psychologically oriented topics, I will need to create another category to this blog. I am finding that a psychological understanding of the client’s process something that...
FIGURE GROUND, A TRANSPARENT DEFINITION
Webster’s defines figure ground as follows: a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background....
YOUR CLIENT’S BRAIN
We have been considering what is happening when your client hates your design. We have discussed both emotional and logical responses of our clients. So it was with great interest to learn about a...
THROW OUT THE GARBAGE
I really like completing a drawing and then posting it the same day. Somehow, the immediacy of this action is better than posting a drawing done say two years ago. I was thinking about...
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