VOLUMETRIC, NOT PICTORIAL
The word volumetric is replacing the word pictorial. To operate optimally, we can no longer think in pictorial terms. We must think volumetrically. Case in point. Thomas French, one of our venerable far flung...
Tagged: FORM GENERATION
TRANSPARENT DIGITAL INPUT
We spoke about digital to digital. We spoke about free or low cost scan apps for our devices. Now, someone needs to write an app that takes a scan of our analogue transparent drawing...
DIGITAL TO DIGITAL
Last week, I mentioned how we are on an unstoppable arc toward digitization. Our sacred act of analogue drawing is being skewed toward digitization. Yet there are technologies which help integrate our analogue drawings...
HOW TO STEAL
Picasso’s famous quote that good artists create and great artists steal has already been covered here. And true to Picasso’s great quote, it seems that he stole this? Or is it that great minds...
DESIGN TRANSLATOR
We all design under limitations. We might have budget limitations on what we can propose. We might have limitations put upon us by our clients. And another common limitation is architectural review boards. These...
LET’S ELIMINATE 2D DRAWINGS
When we draw transparently, we by default are drawing in three dimensions. A two dimensional drawing does not exist in the transparent drawing worldview. Because we are drawing our enclosures and forms so as...
INCOMPLETE PARADIGMS
A scientific paradigm is incomplete when it cannot explain all of the scientific facts with which it is confronted. Does a scientific paradigm explain or predict everything? No. There are always interpretations, transference and...
THE TOOL WE CALL DRAWING
Science uses tools to collect facts. Scientific facts are essential to maintaining paradigms, which were introduced here. Scientific facts are also required for anyone working to originate a paradigm. We saw that paradigms typically...
THE MINDSET OF CONSERVATIVE CLIENTS
Humans have an innate tendency to avoid losses rather than to achieve gains. We are hardwired for this. All of our design discussion with our clients is, fundamentally, one of losses and gains. Let’s...
AUTOMATIC VISUAL PROCESSING
What exactly is our state of mind when we are drawing to solve problems? Much of what goes on between our ears is automatic. The common act of seeing is automatic. We are continually...
APRES TRAVEL
The trips that we take are often way too short. I always find that however long we travel, the time could have at least been doubled. One great way to extend your trip is...
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
It extends under an ordinary car bridge. The Museum. Gehry’s Guggenheim. It extends under a four lane, mediocre vehicle bridge that spans the river. The bridge runs over the museum. We were just in...
SUBURBAN GROUND EFFECTS
We are traveling this week. So I offer these brief posts on various topics that I have prepared ahead of time. Although this may not exactly be the most burning design question, what would...
PERCEPTUAL THINKING
Let’s try teaching our scientists to think like artists. One of the themes of these pages is the confluence of art and science. We have talked about scientists using the same language as artists....
LANGUAGE OF TRANSPARENCY
Please consider the following passage from Kepes’ Language of Vision; “If one sees two or more figures overlapping one another, and each of them claims for itself the common overlapped part, then one is...
TECHNIQUE DESIGN
Technique is culturally biased. We have already established that there is a cultural approbation of drawing technique. Since drawing controls how we think, then how we design is culturally engrained. And this is difficult...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING METHOD
What if we were taught form generation simply for the enjoyment of form generation? What if we were given the tools, an approach, a philosophy for pure enclosure and form generation? This would be...
THE HALO EFFECT
First impressions are hugely important. The halo effect is a psychological term given to describe this first impression. We develop a cognitive bias toward a person based on initial impressions, and this bias continues...
SEXY SKETCHES
They say that there are two things that intrigue people the most on the internet, sex and stupid cat photos. If you don’t know it by now, there is no sex here. For that...
DRAWING MUSEUM
Sergei Tchoban just gave a lecture at Cornell on the topic of his Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin. I was not able to attend, principally because I found out about the lecture on...
PREDICT THE FUTURE
Are our design predictions accurate? How complete is our design understanding? Are we completely unsurprised when we walk into a building that we designed for the first time? Can we say we accurately predicted...
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