All over the news, pundits are covering the advance of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, etc. Most of them bemoan this new technological incursion. The New York Time’s coverage seemed to be slightly unique. ...
The forms that we generate with Transparent Drawing are real forms. They are not abstract. They are not ideal. They are not actual.They are not schematic. Now, you might think that the five statements above amount to...
I happened across this site, called APK Concepts, which I want to share with you. I was looking for more information on Margaret Morris’ book, Notation of Movement, and this was in the...
Rudolph Steiner, who generated the Waldorf School in 1919, was a firm believer in what he called form drawing. As faithful readers know, these pages have advocated the drawing of holistic form since day...
Arch Daily just ran a very nice piece titled Transparent Drawings, Visualizing Architecture Anew. Per many sources, Arch Daily is the most visited architecture website on the planet. I didn’t realize this...
While reading and annotating Norberg-Schulz’s Intentions in Architecture, I wrote “all in all it’s just bricks in the wall” three times in the margins. The book was all just words piled upon words. Tortuous...
Guest Author – Jim Barnes (James David Barnes) — 11th April 20201 James Barnes is a practicing architect living in Dallas, TX. He has written extensively on representation, how we see, the perspective, etc....
Jay Appleton wrote, in 1975, an absolutely great meditation about how we interpret a visual landscape. He centers his thesis on what he terms Prospect-Refuge theory. -Prospect is the ability to see without being...
We made it over the finish line. Hurray! Celebrate! Wonder of Wonders! Transparent Drawing is now shipping in the US! A lifelong friend of mine first ordered the book on Amazon 23 March 2020....
I’m sorry, but I need to jump in here with a Transparent Drawing book delivery update. This is prompted by a reader who just wrote to me saying that they canceled their order with...
When you start out on a project like Transparent Drawing, you have no idea how it will be categorized. Amazon algorithms put it in good company. I had hoped that Transparent Drawing would be...
Baxandall offers a near mind blowing set of quotes and statements. They describe the Vision of the Blessed. A quote by Maffei, written in 1504, starts things off: “Vision will be so keen that...
Written in 1907, Hildebrand’s The Problem of Form, offers a theory of the perception of art. With his Architectonic Method, he states that structure is the true problem of art. It is not imitation,...
That is such a great phrase, the book has sailed. This is what my publisher, who is British, wrote to me. The update is that it sailed, or was put on the ship bound...
In 1883, Francis Galton had this to say about transparency: “Some persons have the habit of viewing objects as though they were partly transparent; thus, if they so dispose a globe in their imagination...
Ruskin’s The Elements of Drawing has been in the cannon for decades. I only became aware of it a couple of months ago. As expected, the book’s orientation supports Representational Spacetime: the entire point...
In one month from today, the book, Transparent Drawing, will be released. That is according to my publisher’s listing on CoreSource, a US distribution platform. So how do I think it will stack up?...
Analogue, in these pages, centers on the physical integration that comes from a human hand holding a pencil as marks are made on paper. Pylyshyn broadens our understanding of analogue to include the drawing...
Christopher Alexander, with their book A Pattern Language, has been a celestial reference from the beginning. So I was intrigued when I realized that they wrote Notes On The Synthesis of Form. He provides...
Nat Chard, in his article Paradoxical Sciagraphy, posits a mode of ideation that is beyond what we typically think of as drawing. He has constructed small machines which throws small blobs of paint onto...
BOOK LAUNCH UPDATE. Rachel at Black Dog Press just sent this photo of the wet proofs of the book. After a bit of research, I learned that wet proofs are done by the printer...
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