MINIMIZE DESIGN
What if you simply set aside all of your usual support technology, and instead, pick up a pencil and a piece of paper, and use only those minimalist tools to continue to work? Emotional...
Tagged: FORM COMBINE
DRAWING AT THE BOUNDARY OF ART
What does it mean to draw at the boundary of art? Nearest I can tell, it means to draw transparently. For when you do that, you are accessing form. And when you inscribe form,...
STRING DRAWING
String Drawing is a new Transparent Drawing Means of Assembly. This joins other assemblies such as Woven Drawing, One Line One Wash, etc. String Drawing is most effective when it is applied to a...
FORM GENERATION FROM CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
I generated the drawing above from the drawing below. With a 0.5 mm felt tip, I did a volumetric projection of the flying buttress image. I ended up taking liberties with the geometry. Yet...
MICHANGELO AT THE MET
We saw the Michangelo drawing show at the MET. Turns out, he did not draw transparently. No surprise, really, given that he was the pinnacle of the Renaissance. The show forcefully demonstrates the seductive...
FORM COMBINE 2
Here is another Form Combine. This is the result of the combination, or overlay, of two Henry Moore drawing projection. The drawing at the top is the one that I did first. I found...
FORM COMBINE
Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist. In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing...
SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE
In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...
ARTISTIC SIDESTEP
“But Kelberman’s project is, in addition, a visual world-building that explicitly sidesteps not only the language of antiquity and classicism but also any suggestion of “artistic” image making. Her choices are brightly colored,...
SCIENTIFIC ICONS
Mike makes a really good point. In his reply to The Pencil Marks On The Paper, he states that engineering graphs give a more complete and intuitive understanding than the mathematical characters which produce...
YEAR IN REVIEW
How do you generate new forms? More to the point, can there be a method which can be used to for novel form and enclosure generation? This question is one of the central points...
STICKBOARD DIGITAL INTERFACE
I’ve come up with a great new digital interface. It’s called the Stickboard. This new product has been designed to eliminate your laptop’s keyboard by fitting directly over it. The Stickboard provides an analogue...
EL LISSITZKY
The Russian constructivists have been a cultural influence upon use here in the West. Many of the current famous architects developed their first architectural responses in the guise of constructivism. I am thinking of...
THE FIRST TRANSPARENT DRAWING?
Why does everything always lead back to Duschamp? I’ve been pondering this question for quite some time now. Maybe it is just me, but in my continuing quest for new form generation methods, so...
EMOTIONAL FORMS
There is no question that we continually search for new forms. These might take the shape of a watch, a phone or a building. But as enclosure designers we truly are searching for novel...
THREE DIMENSIONAL SOUL
Bernhard Hoetger was a sculptor who also designed buildings. In 1928, he wrote. “We want no inhibitions and checks by recipes, we want the free spirit to find its own laws. The creative moment...
THE 3D SOLID PROBLEM
All we can draw are planes. We cannot render the volume inside a solid. In the drawing above, there is a solid and a void within the cube. The dark green solid part is...
MILITARY AXONOMETRIC
The use of parallel line drawing first came into wide use for the design of military fortresses. In light of the general invasionary tendencies in the 15th and 16th centuries, impregnability was foremost on...
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...
EXCEPTIONAL BARN 1
There is a unique barn shape that I have only seen in Central Upstate New York. The examples that I know of are around Seneca Falls. They look very organic and wedded to the...
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