PAIN AND ARCHITECTURE
The scientific study of pain is evolving to a great degree; they can now quantify it. This has import for architecture. While this may sound crazy, let’s look at the link between pain and...
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THRESHOLD OF FORM COMPREHENSION
Is there a threshold for form knowledge? That is to ask, can we draw so that we are at the threshold of form comprehension? Is there a form threshold? This question was asked a...
QUANTIFIABLE ARCHITECTURE
Let’s establish Quantifiable Architecture. Architecture should be quantified. Architecture can be quantified. That is to say, metrics can be established which give numerical values to aspects and features of our buildings. And we establish...
FOUNDATION OF MINDFULNESS
I really like the way Buddhist thought applies to Transparent Drawing. In the Seven Factors of Awakening, Buddhism has primary goals of integration, holism, complete understanding, renunciation of petty facets of the real world,...
THE DRAWING ORGAN
You know how they say that the brain is the most important sex organ? Well, the same is true for drawing; your brain is the most important drawing organ. Now, we are typically taught...
THE WIREFRAME
Does the drawing above look like a wireframe drawing? Or, do any of the drawings on this site look like wireframes? I don’t think they do. Yet in two recent conversations with friends about...
LINES WITHOUT TONES
What about lines without tones? To date, I think every drawing in these pages is comprised of lines with tones. So can there be a useful and knowledgeable transparent drawing without tones? I did...
THE ELEMENTS
Quick, name the seven elements of art. Most definitions of art list what they call the seven elements, which are form, line, shape, texture, value, space, and color. These definitions will go on to...
REPRESENTATIONAL SPACETIME
I need this page to clearly state how Representational Spacetime is defined in Transparent Drawing. Representational Spacetime is one of the Four Spacetimes, and I realized that I don’t have a page specifically addressing...
VIDEO – FORM GENERATION – LOTUS FLOWER
It is exciting to offer the first Transparent Drawing video titled Form Generation – Lotus Flower. Form Generation, as faithful readers have come to understand, is one of the three Uses of Transparent Drawing. ...
USE COMBINATION
Transparent Drawing is used to increase our knowledge in the following ways: -Use 1. Understand existing buildings and objects -Use 2. Form generation -Use 3. Real world solutions To this point, these three uses...
SPACETIME ANALYSIS 1
A few pages ago, we introduced The Four Spacetimes as a way of understanding how Transparent Drawing fits into the history of Western Culture. So let’s apply The Four Spacetimes to the drawing...
THE FOUR SPACETIMES
Drawing is a statement of time and space. To draw representationally, for example, there is a tacit acceptance that we will summarize one instant in time with a linear spatial construct. To Draw Like...
FORM GENERATION FROM CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
I generated the drawing above from the drawing below. With a 0.5 mm felt tip, I did a volumetric projection of the flying buttress image. I ended up taking liberties with the geometry. Yet...
ANTI-ILLUSIONIST TESSELLATION
Picasso painted from photographs. His use of photographs was: “…a productive to-and-fro between a photo that reduces real volumes to their flat coordinates and a pictorial reinterpretation of that photographic record into anti-illusionist tessellation.” ...
TIME OF SEEING
Transparent Drawing cannot exist without time. To understand completely a three dimensional form, a viewer must have, at minimum, at least two viewing points. The forms and objects that we are drawing are, for...
MICHANGELO AT THE MET
We saw the Michangelo drawing show at the MET. Turns out, he did not draw transparently. No surprise, really, given that he was the pinnacle of the Renaissance. The show forcefully demonstrates the seductive...
DIGITAL INTEGRATION
Can an analogue drawing be part of a digital workflow? Is an analogue drawing that becomes part of a digital workflow, still analogue? Do we need a new term that defines an analogue drawing...
REPRESENTATION AND MEANING
Buddhist theory or practice tells us that at the root of things, forms are empty. That is to say, as one proceeds toward enlightenment, we work to separate the meaning, or content, from form. ...
HEROIC LINES
An image found on the web. A few heroic lines on the paper. A quick wash or two. A resolved, unique and authentic form. That really is at the heart of Transparent Drawing. A...
THE ORGANISM AND THE OBJECT
The basis of all architecture is drawing. “Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and...
ONE LINE ONE WASH
I think I have achieved enlightenment. My drawing was done with one wash, and one line. The pencil went once to the paper and drew the line. The brush went once to the paper...
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