TERMS OF SERVICE
I read that everyone likes lists online as they are easier to read and then are more likely to be forwarded (hint). So I offer to you this short list of terms and definitions...
Tagged: FORM GENERATION
BEWARE OF THE MANIFOLDNESS
Over the centuries, we have developed nearly a cultural fear of the visual. A couple of links to past posts here and here for a bit more background. And if you don’t believe any...
PRESENTING ARCHITECTURE
It was nice to be invited by Robert Becker over at Presenting Architecture to list Transparent Drawing at his site. Presenting Architecture is a compendium of the work of those who, well, present architecture....
REAL WORLD 2
Everyone understands Transparent Drawing. At least if someone doesn’t, they have had the great courtesy to not tell me. A few months ago, I posted Real World Transparent Drawings. These are drawings that I...
STRUCTURAL ESSENCE
Productive thinking. This is what we all want to do. We want to be as productive as we can when we problem solve. For the greatest productivity, we need to be thinking about the...
GREEK DICHOTOMY
Our culture puts logical discourse ahead of visual discourse. This predilection started with the Greeks: the early Greek thinkers essentially disparaged sensory experience. Instead they encouraged the rigorous application of words and numbers. In...
LINEAR PERSPECTIVE – THE CRITICS
The development of the perspective should be seen as a natural component of the rational development of the human mind. Certainly the development of the perspective can be understood given our propensity for mathmatization...
PLAY THE FANTASY GAME
The building is built. The design was done the best that you could have done. Yet I find it interesting to pursue the what if scenarios. What if, for example, there would not have...
FULL CIRCLE TRANSPARENCY
Thomas French, one of our far flung correspondents, sent an interesting and related note. This regards the PBS series Time Scanners. So that engineers may understand in greater depth the structural integrity of the...
TRANSPARENT BLOCKS – PRODUCT REVIEW
“The maple-wood blocks…are in my fingers to this day.” This is the famous quote by Frank Lloyd Wright touting his kindergarten experiences with the maple block sets that were ubiquitous then. And we have...
TONE AND LINE
Transparent Drawing requires that you draw lines and then put tones between the lines. At least that is what I do. We should give some of our attention to the matter of tones and...
THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WE’RE FREE AT LAST
To date, we have discussed various drawing projection systems for your Transparent Drawings. We have discussed the axonometric with it’s supreme objectivity. We have discussed the one and two point perspectives with their supreme...
FORM GENERATION
As designers, one of the basic points is to derive a form that is unique to your problem and somewhat different that what has come before. The derivation of a new form is in...
WHY. NOT HOW
Paul Lauseau, author of Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers, muses the following in the second edition of his excellent resource, “…it occurs to me that most of what I have written deals with...
BUCKY FULLER
Buckminster Fuller is a supreme systems thinker. He argued from day one that to understand the part, you have to understand the whole. Early in his education, he rebelled against the manner in which...
JOGGING FOR BUILDINGS
Lockard in his book Design Drawing states, “Designers must be professional perceivers. They must learn to perceive their environment comprehensively…” “Drawing is a primary means of developing this needed perceptual ability.” (1) When you...
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...
IS ARCHITECTURE ART?
In these pages, we have stated that we are not creating art in our drawings. And because we are not creating art, then we must not be artists. So if the drawings that we...
STUDENT TRANSPARENT DRAWING
I taught both design and gave a lecture survey course last fall. My goal in the course was to give a broad pictorial overview of architecture. And as you might guess, I had the...
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