ROBERTO MATTA
Roberto Matta was a Chilean who is tagged with being a surrealist. And he operated with some transparency in his drawings. He was born in 1911, and actually died not all that long ago...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
RONCHAMP PROVENANCE
Robin Evans, in The Projective Cast, offers an interesting history of Corb’s design of Ronchamp Chapel. These pages have called for, time and again, the revelation of how our culturally iconic designs were generated. ...
ANALYTICAL WATERCOLOR
I hate Pinterest. I’ve said this before. But now there is a new Pinterest board in which many of my watercolors have been pinned. It is called Analytical Watercolor. And the author saw fit...
AUTOMATIC FORM
Automation pervades our life. Automation is a mechanical or electrical process where the next action to take is based on data from the previous action with minimal human input. Our cars won’s run and...
BLOOD AND GRISTLE
The physicality of drawing. The physical connection that drawing provides has been made time and again by so many, that it is almost goes without saying. We draw with our bodies. We internalize knowledge...
SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOLSTICE
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible; I think we must believe that...
WOVEN DRAWING
What is woven drawing? This is where you draw the form as if it is woven. Typically, a weaving is a matrix of linear elements that, by overlapping each other as they cross, form...
SURFACE TO SKELETON
The Grasshopper algorithmic design software has a feature called ‘surface to skeleton.’ Once you have a form established, this feature allows a generation of what they call a skeleton of the structure. While I’m...
HEROD’S TEMPLE
At the Jewish Museum in Berlin, there was a model depicting Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem. Although, of course, there have been innumerable passing references to it over the decades, I had never stopped to...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN 2
Do you want your design to be done by a human or by the machine? This will be one of the key questions as we move toward automation. Authenticity, as I said a few...
NEUE WACHE
Neue Wache, in Berlin, leaves a lasting impression. It’s current use is as a memorial to all victims of war. In the center is a Käthe Kollwitz sculpture titled Mother with her Dead Son....
ROTHKO’S LIGHT BAND
I can’t help it now. Whatever artwork I look at, I always think, why didn’t they do that transparently? It would have been so much more interesting. I’ve said this before many times. So,...
QUANTIFIABLE ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORICISM
Buildings in historic districts have to be pretty. As I have mentioned before, I am a small town architect. And our entire village is on the National List of Historic Places. As with any...
(BRUSH) LINES WITHOUT TONES
Some pages ago, we took a look at Lines Without Tones drawings. The lines drawn at that time were from a felt tip pen. And we determined that the basic transparent understanding of forms...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN
Provenance. Authenticity. I kept thinking about these concepts as I read the interesting and funny article by Nick Paumgarten in the 22 Oct. issue of The New Yorker, which discusses blockchains. The article focuses...
TRANSPARENT IMPRINT
Draw with Transparent Imprint. This is easy. All you have to do is draw on one page of your sketchbook, and keep the sketch completely wet. Then close your sketchbook and press for 10...
LEONARDO’S INFINITE IMAGES
Leonardo da Vinci: “every opaque body fills the surrounding air with infinite images, by which infinite pyramids diffused in the air present this body all in all and in every part.” A II, 6v....
SPACETIME ANALYSIS – 2
It has been awhile since we did a Spacetime Analysis. So I thought it would be fun to take a drawing that I like to see what sort of spacetime knowledge can be learned. ...
DRAWING FROM DRAWING – 2
Back in 2016, we introduced the concept of Drawing from Drawing. I find it difficult to believe that it has been two years without another DFD page. So here is another. This drawing sequence...
RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY
Riemannian geometry is a branch of mathematics that studies curves in three dimensional Euclidean space. I was interested in the image that I found below, which then resulted in my transparent drawing above. Categorize...
CHURCH OF THE MOST SACRED HEART
I think I have uncovered the origins of post-modernism. This revelation occurred while standing before the Church Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Our Lord, in Prague. Actually, my “revelation” occurred via these two...
ALTE NATIONALGALERIE
In Berlin last week, I was surprised that the Alte Nationalgalerie ended up being one of my favorite buildings in the city. And given the enormous architectural wonders of Berlin, that is saying a...
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