THE PROOF IS ON THE PAPER
Visual Facts is a concept introduced here at transparent drawing. For a very brief primer on Visual Facts, this link takes you to a previous page. The word fact is, etymologically, an act or...
Category: HISTORY
SELF-ACCOMPLISHING ABSOLUTE IMAGES
As we have established, images reside in our memories. When we draw, or learn, we add images to our memories. This adding of images to memory only increases the value of images that are...
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....
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...
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...
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...
VIRTUAL PENCIL AND BRUSH
More thoughts on evolving digital drawing interfaces. SensAble Technologies, a digital interface company operating in the 1990s, manufactured a handheld controller which gave users the virtual sensation of actually touching onscreen objects. In their...
PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH IN BUILDINGS
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...
NON KNOWING
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...
IMPROVISATION
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...
THE POETICS OF SPACE 1
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....
HOW TO STEAL
Picasso’s famous quote that good artists create and great artists steal has already been covered here. And true to Picasso’s great quote, it seems that he stole this? Or is it that great minds...
EL LISSITZKY
The Russian constructivists have been a cultural influence upon use here in the West. Many of the current famous architects developed their first architectural responses in the guise of constructivism. I am thinking of...
PERCEPTUAL THINKING
Let’s try teaching our scientists to think like artists. One of the themes of these pages is the confluence of art and science. We have talked about scientists using the same language as artists....
CULTURAL COPYING
The cultural provenance of your ideas and solutions is what will establish what is valued, and what is not. How you manage, parse and organize the Googlized information flood is a significant part of...
IS CONTEXT THE NEW CONTENT?
The title above is a quote by Kenneth Goldsmith in his collection of essays titled “Uncreative Writing.” Goldsmith is a conceptual poet. Yet his ideas regarding the provenance of our ideas, specifically within...
SOCIETAL KNOWLEDGE
In these pages, we have bemoaned the subjugation of the visual and the elevation of language. Let’s look a bit closer at how language actually works so we can see what we are up...
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....
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...
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