DRAWING FROM DRAWING – 2
Back in 2016, we introduced the concept of Drawing from Drawing. I find it difficult to believe that it has been two years without another DFD page. So here is another. This drawing sequence...
Tagged: TRANSPARENT DRAWING
RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY
Riemannian geometry is a branch of mathematics that studies curves in three dimensional Euclidean space. I was interested in the image that I found below, which then resulted in my transparent drawing above. Categorize...
CHURCH OF THE MOST SACRED HEART
I think I have uncovered the origins of post-modernism. This revelation occurred while standing before the Church Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Our Lord, in Prague. Actually, my “revelation” occurred via these two...
ALTE NATIONALGALERIE
In Berlin last week, I was surprised that the Alte Nationalgalerie ended up being one of my favorite buildings in the city. And given the enormous architectural wonders of Berlin, that is saying a...
VORONOI DIAGRAMS
I have found a new inspiration source, voronoi diagrams. A voronoi diagram is a scientific / mathematical graphic which divides a plane into regions based on sets of points on that plane. The first...
KNOWLEDGE AND EMOTION
Why do we draw? I say in these pages that we should draw for knowledge, rather than emotion. But what, exactly, do I mean by that? What do I mean when I say that...
READY TO BUILD
The fashion industry has it’s ready to wear collections. Why don’t architects have their Ready To Build collections as well? For a quick update on tReady To Build in Transparent Drawing, these pages have...
ORDINARY BUILDING BIZEN
Just another ordinary building in Bizen, Japan. After getting off the train and then starting to walk thru the town, this was the second building that I took photos of. There are many buildings...
REPRESENTATION IS DEAD
Why do we even teach representation as the mode with which to draw to solve problems? Why are we even taught to draw representationally? Why are we culturally ingrained to draw for emotion, rather...
LIFE IS NOT LIKE AN OIL PAINTING
“Life delineates itself on the canvas called time; and time never repeats: once gone, forever gone, and so is an act: once done, it is never undone. Life is a sumiye-painting, which must be...
HILBERT SPACE 2
While we are on the subject of Hilbert Space, another drawing. (Our introduction to Hilbert Space is at the previous page.) In my research into this mathematical construct, I came across the image below,...
HILBERT SPACE
How many dimensions can we draw in? If we are within Hilbert Space, then the number of dimensions is infinite. David Hilbert was a great mathematician working in the early part of the 1900s. ...
NOTE TAKING
I’ve started to draw in a slightly new way. And the best way I can describe it is that I am taking notes. For most of my drawings of existing buildings, I have devoted...
THE PATHETIC STATE OF ARCHITECTURAL COMMENTARY
Time was, the arrival of a copy of the print magazine Architectural Record, was a big deal. The subscription was expensive. It’s contents were mysterious. Times have changed. Now it shows up in our...
PAIN AND ARCHITECTURE
The scientific study of pain is evolving to a great degree; they can now quantify it. This has import for architecture. While this may sound crazy, let’s look at the link between pain and...
THRESHOLD OF FORM COMPREHENSION
Is there a threshold for form knowledge? That is to ask, can we draw so that we are at the threshold of form comprehension? Is there a form threshold? This question was asked a...
QUANTIFIABLE ARCHITECTURE
Let’s establish Quantifiable Architecture. Architecture should be quantified. Architecture can be quantified. That is to say, metrics can be established which give numerical values to aspects and features of our buildings. And we establish...
GIACOMETTI AT THE GUGGENHEIM
Giacometti liked to draw. That was my takeaway from the current show of his work at the Guggenheim. Are his drawings transparent? Not quite. Yet there is a wider sense of time about them. ...
WHY DO WE DRAW?
Why do we draw? Why we draw is a fundamental theme of these pages. By contrast, these pages are really not about how we draw. That sort of thing has been covered by the...
FOUNDATION OF MINDFULNESS
I really like the way Buddhist thought applies to Transparent Drawing. In the Seven Factors of Awakening, Buddhism has primary goals of integration, holism, complete understanding, renunciation of petty facets of the real world,...
SECRET KNOWLEDGE
When you see a great painting by a Renaissance master, we never stop to think, how did they do that? We just assume, or at least I assume, that the Rembrandt portrait or the...
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