MOVING BRIDGES
Given our travel schedule this week, this is another page of travel related drawing. I noted that I seem to have a fondness for moving bridges. The example at the top of the page...
Category: TRAVEL
SPANISH HORREO
We are traveling this week. So I have prepared ahead of time a couple of thoughts and impressions of our past travels. An iconic image of Northern Spain are what are called horreo, or...
IN SITU TRANSPARENT DRAWING
It finally happened. I made an in situ transparent drawing in a cloister in northern Spain. In these pages I’ve been extolling the virtues, ad nauseam, of drawing from photographs on your phone. I’m...
BAKER HOUSE AT MIT
Walk to the back side of the building. That, in a nutshell, describes the Transparent Drawing mindset when looking at a piece of architecture. We were in Boston on Wednesday, and I had a...
APRES TRAVEL
The trips that we take are often way too short. I always find that however long we travel, the time could have at least been doubled. One great way to extend your trip is...
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
It extends under an ordinary car bridge. The Museum. Gehry’s Guggenheim. It extends under a four lane, mediocre vehicle bridge that spans the river. The bridge runs over the museum. We were just in...
THE CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIOUS
We visited Vancouver and Seattle last week. We absolutely love to hit a city and then immediately start exploring it. And many times we don’t have a specific itinerary of places to visit and...
CARPENTER CENTER UNDERSTANDING
We made a pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center in Cambridge, MA recently. This might have been the third time that I was there. School had not started yet so we were able to...
BERLIN PHILHARMONIE
Hans Scharoun was one of my early heroes. Here was a modernist, yet one who embraced organic geometries and responsive enclosures. I do believe that it was Scharoun’s organic pieces, most notably the Berlin...
CAVE DRAWINGS
When we were traveling in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, we of course visited many caves which were carved out of the rock. Cappadocia is famous for cave dwellings and cave churches. Cappadocia is...
INDIGENOUS PERFECTION
I happened to take a drive a couple of evenings ago. The late afternoon was warm and it was good to be driving rural roads. After 25 years of living up here, it is...
JOGGING FOR BUILDINGS
Lockard in his book Design Drawing states, “Designers must be professional perceivers. They must learn to perceive their environment comprehensively…” “Drawing is a primary means of developing this needed perceptual ability.” (1) When you...
ORDINARY BUILDING 2
For many people of our ilk, the brakes on our cars sure get a workout. We know the routine. We are driving along, typically trying to get someplace on time. And then there is...
HAGIA SOPHIA
This has to be one of the most compelling buildings in the world. My first impression was that it looked almost like a ruin, given the multitude of elements that have been constructed around...
ST. GREGORY
St. Gregory of Nazianzos Church, Guzelyurt-Cappadocia We visited one of the first Byzantine Churches in Guzulyert, Turkey. This building has been called the inspiration and model for Hagia Sophia and was built in the...
BYZANTINE CHURCHES
We just had a fantastic trip to Turkey. So expect continual postings from this trip. A huge revelation revelation was how the Byzantines used domes. They employed a cascading assembly of full domes, half...
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