YOU CANNOT NOT DRAW HISTORY
I guess one fundamental motivation for this project is to give architecture students a format with which to overcome what I continue to see as the passive teaching of architectural history. I characterize this...
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ON REALISM – A LETTER TO HELEN
Why not draw realistically? After all, a basic tenant of realism is that it represents truth. A completely natural drawing is done without any outside artifice. Forms, textures, shadows, etc. are all rendered...
BEAUX-ARTS BLAME GAME 2
There was a building boom in America after the Civil War. American architects were very concerned regarding both the low quality of the design and construction of these buildings. Thus there was a large...
QUICK START
If you have persevered thru any of this, you might be wondering how you would start to do a transparent drawing. You might have an urge to find a piece of paper, a pencil,...
BEAUX ARTS BLAME GAME 1
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts has been and continues to be a huge influence on our profession. It was a very prestigious arts and architecture school in Paris. It traced it’s roots back to 1648...
SENSORY MEMORY
One of the prime texts which we are typically all given is The Natural Way To Draw by Nicolides. He writes of sensory memory, which is within all of us. We gain sensory memory...
PERSPECTIVE POWER
Desargues was a French mathematician, engineer and architect who lived at the beginning of the 17th Century. In the 1640s, he stated that perspective theory was seen as a tool to help moderate between...
CHING AND TRANSPARENCY
A book that we have all been given as a basic drawing resource is Architectural Graphics, by Francis Ching. Almost every drawing in the book is opaquely drawn. Yet Ching does address transparency in...
HOLLOW OBJECTS
The Natural Way to Draw was used in my introductory drawing course. I will refer to this iconic book from time to time. It continues to maintain a position of reverence on my bookshelf...
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