CREATIVE DETAIL
We need to share details of our creative methods and processes. A couple of pages ago, I lamented that we don’t share any of the creative details of how we are inspired. For example,...
Tagged: FORM GENERATION
ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Reading in Bachelard, it was gratifying to hear him contemplate memory, space and time. He posits the theory that memory is free of time. That is to say, our memories are devoid of a...
THE PROOF IS ON THE PAPER
Visual Facts is a concept introduced here at transparent drawing. For a very brief primer on Visual Facts, this link takes you to a previous page. The word fact is, etymologically, an act or...
SELF-ACCOMPLISHING ABSOLUTE IMAGES
As we have established, images reside in our memories. When we draw, or learn, we add images to our memories. This adding of images to memory only increases the value of images that are...
AYRE HOTEL OVIEDO
Another travel related page as we are in Toronto this week. During our recent trip to northern Spain, we spent a night in the Ayre Hotel Oviedo, which was designed by Calatrava. Now, I...
ROCKPORT GRANITE
We are away this week. So I prepared this travel related page ahead of time. When you travel, you don’t have to limit yourselves to drawing buildings. I took me years to realize this. ...
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...
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...
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...
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....
SENSORY OVERLAP
Architecture is a rich, multi-sensory experience. There is great sensory overlap to our sensory input. It is richly three dimensional and simultaneous. We should therefore push ourselves to include as much of this overlapping...
ROAD NOT TAKEN
At the confluence of the analog and the digital, we need to reference as many analogue instances that we can so as to continue to demonstrate the validity of what we are about. We...
CONSTRICTIVE 2D MODELING
Most of our input to computers is 2D. Why is the majority of our input not directly into 3D? For our daily, run of the mill, typical interaction with 3D digital systems, we spend...
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