BUCKY FULLER INSPIRATION
In my reading this weekend I came upon this inspirational quote from Buckminster Fuller. Reading Bucky is always a fuller inspiration. “Physics has found no solids! So to keep on teaching our children the...
Tagged: ANALOGUE DRAWING
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...
OVERWEIGHTING
I continue to be amazed by the design decisions that people make. Not just my clients. But everyone. How can it be that people are content to live in culturally historical dark boxes? How...
VIRTUAL PENCIL AND BRUSH
More thoughts on evolving digital drawing interfaces. SensAble Technologies, a digital interface company operating in the 1990s, manufactured a handheld controller which gave users the virtual sensation of actually touching onscreen objects. In their...
MESSY DESIGN
The robotics revolution is upon us. Reports and predictions continually express great concern that the machines will take over. While some robotic systems strive for artificial intelligence, others are geared to intelligence augmentation. Robotic...
SUI GENERIS
Dubuffet, as reported by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker, educates us on the Art Brut movement which the artist Dubuffet championed. While I have not had a chance to see the Dubuffet show...
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...
PICASSO AT MOMA 1
How could there be such free composition, such deft assembly, and such humor? In every piece? This show has to be considered the motherlode. I believe that the entirety of modernism, if not the...
PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH IN BUILDINGS
Psychological growth is never part of a building program. Have you ever discussed with your clients the potential for emotional development or increasing personal freedom? I have yet to discuss with my clients the...
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...
CALLIGRAPHY AS A GRAPHIC
I have been using the beautiful graphics of Islamic writing as a way of generating forms. I have been using Islamic calligraphy as a graphic to generate ideas. I continue to think of the...
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...
NON KNOWING
From The Poetics of Space: “Even in an art like painting, which bears witness to a skill, the important successes take place independently of skill.” 1 A meta mantra in these pages is that...
IMPROVISATION
I listen to a lot of music. And as I listen, I always think about the improvisatory quality of what I am hearing. If you can play a piece of written music and it...
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...
ALGORITHMIC DESIGN
In the Huffington Post Arts and Culture section, there is an article titled “Towards a Science of Design” by Lance Hosey. As the title suggests, the author is expressing the oft lamented duality of...
THE POETICS OF SPACE 1
A great advantage to having your daughter study architecture is that you are exposed to books that you did not know existed. Our daughter was reading from Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space this Thanksgiving....
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