THE MATHEMATICAL VILLA SAVOYS
Villa Savoye has been a favorite in these pages. We now go farther afield with these Mathematical Villa Savoys. In essence, we take visualized mathematical systems, apply the rules to the building, and see...
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UNITY OF OPPOSITES 13-18
This is the third and final installment of our look at Unity Of Opposites as they apply to Transparent Drawing. The first two installments can be found here and here. I hope that you...
UNITY OF OPPOSITES 7-12
This is the second installment of our look at Unity Of Opposites as they apply to Transparent Drawing. The first installment can be found here. Seven TD: Real Object RS: Faithful Vision Drawings that...
UNITY OF OPPOSITES 1-6
Today, and for the next two Mondays, we will look at a Unity Of Opposites as they apply to Transparent Drawing. Each page will have 6 Opposites, for a total at the end of...
ORDINARY BUILDING – MOROCCO
It is the light. The constantly changing light. And the blueness of the sky. In Morocco, I found myself spending a lot of time looking directly up. And one reason was the courtyards. Every...
THE BANALITY AND THE ECSTASY
It never occurred to me that I would draw it later. Why draw banality? During our Ottawa trip, (previous page about Ottawa here), we went to the Diefenbunker. The Diefenbunker is a relic of...
BARCELONA PAVILION
It’s underwhelming, the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies. But in a good way. It was as if the expectation of total perfection diluted the experience of perfection. How can you experience perfection when you know...
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...
RIETVELD SCHRODER HOUSE
Our correspondent Mike reminds us of Gerald Rietveld’s Schroder Residence in Utrecht. Indeed, this building was one that I continued to gaze at thru the iconic book images as a student. I won’t bore...
CHOISEY ONE POINT
Auguste Choisey, as we have seen, was a profound thinker. And he assiduously believed that his type of axonometric was the only way to draw. To recap, a Choisey Axonometric is the one where...
CHOISEY TRANSPARENCY
A Choisey projection is one in which the observer is looking up at the interior of the building. It takes the floor plan, and projects with parallel lines the spacial interior. The basic beauty...
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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