DESIGN RISK COEFFICIENT
Is it fair to say that our clients gamble when they say yes to a design concept? While we typically don’t use the word gamble to apply to design selection, when faced with an...
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NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 2
This is the second part of the Transparent Drawing workshop held in Professor Frangos’ first year design studio at New York Institute of Technology last week. The first installment can be found on the...
NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 1
Naomi Frangos, Associate Professor of Architecture at New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury Campus, Long Island, heroically invited me to give a Transparent Drawing workshop for her first year architecture design studio. The...
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...
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...
METAPHOR QUOTIENT
Decrease the metaphor quotient in your drawings. The more directly your drawings relate to the problem you are working to solve, the less of a metaphor they are, and the lower your metaphor quotient....
PICASSO AT MOMA 2
Used to be, when I would see a show like the Picasso Sculptures currently at MOMA, my attention would be superficial, for lack of a better term. That is to say, I would look...
RISK, SATISFACTION, CHOICE, AND COST
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...
ENDOWMENT EFFECT
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
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...
FACTUAL DESIGN
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...
SENSORY OVERLAP
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...
CONSTRICTIVE 2D MODELING
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...
TRANSPARENT DIGITAL INPUT
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...
DIGITAL TO DIGITAL
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...
DESIGN TRANSLATOR
We all design under limitations. We might have budget limitations on what we can propose. We might have limitations put upon us by our clients. And another common limitation is architectural review boards. These...
LET’S ELIMINATE 2D DRAWINGS
When we draw transparently, we by default are drawing in three dimensions. A two dimensional drawing does not exist in the transparent drawing worldview. Because we are drawing our enclosures and forms so as...
INCOMPLETE PARADIGMS
A scientific paradigm is incomplete when it cannot explain all of the scientific facts with which it is confronted. Does a scientific paradigm explain or predict everything? No. There are always interpretations, transference and...
THE TOOL WE CALL DRAWING
Science uses tools to collect facts. Scientific facts are essential to maintaining paradigms, which were introduced here. Scientific facts are also required for anyone working to originate a paradigm. We saw that paradigms typically...
THE MINDSET OF CONSERVATIVE CLIENTS
Humans have an innate tendency to avoid losses rather than to achieve gains. We are hardwired for this. All of our design discussion with our clients is, fundamentally, one of losses and gains. Let’s...
AUTOMATIC VISUAL PROCESSING
What exactly is our state of mind when we are drawing to solve problems? Much of what goes on between our ears is automatic. The common act of seeing is automatic. We are continually...
DRAWING ON AIRPLANES
We are traveling this week. So I prepared this travel related post ahead of time. You’re probably tired of hearing me extol the virtues of drawing...
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