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Class Notes: Thinking in Axonometric
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Desk Crit, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, F R A G M E N T S, school, School Work, tagged Adding and Subtracting, Addition, Architect, Architectural Construct, Architectural Design, Architecture, Architecture Model, Architecture Studio, artist, Composition, Cone, Cylinder, Design, Design Composition, desk crits, Drawing, Explorations, Felt Tip Pen, First Year Design studio, Foam Models, ink, ink drawing, Interpenetration, Marker, Materials, Miti Aiello, newschool of architecture and design, Orthographic Design, pathways, Platonic solids, Platonic Solids Exercises, san diego, Scale, Schematic Design, Shadow Calculation, Shadows, Sharpie, sketchbook, sketches, Sphere, Subtraction, Texture, Utopia, Volumetrics, White Model on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shadows, Math, Truth…Ephipanies
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Desk Crit, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Lectures, Quotes, school, School Work, Writing, tagged Abstraction, Architecture, Being then Doing, Drawing, Drawing and Sketching as Tools for Design, First Year Design studio, John Ruskin Quote, light, Light Angle, Philosophy, Platonic solids, Quotes, Reduction, Reductive process, Shadows in Axonometric, Truth on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy September. Post coming late today, but it is a new month and I hope this, my birthday month (yay) will be better than the last- and all summer for that matter. Lots of challenges and growth but…they don’t call them growing pains for nothing. In my classes today we shared links on artists, visual notes, [...]
Progress with color techniques- the Queen Califia session
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Desk Crit, San Diego, school, School Work, tagged california, Caliph, Color, desk crits, Drawing, drawing and coloring plen air, Escondido, experiments, history of California, Kit Carson Park, Markers, Mythos, Niki St. Phalle, Queen Califia, Queen Califia's Magical Garden, rendering and Delineation, san diego, sketchbooks, The origins or California, watercolor techniques, Where California got its name on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From yesterday’s Rendering and Delineation Class. So proud of my color-wary students. Read the story of the mythical Queen Califia. California is named after her! See Niki St. Phalle Sculptural Garden ‘ Queen Califia’s Magical Garden’ in Kit Carson Park, Escondido, California. Previous posts on the subject: California and Califia Listening to Baroque Music in [...]
SoCal – E>< : Exploratory Design Workshop
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Desk Crit, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Paper Goods, Pastel, Photography, school, tagged Albert Frey, Alberto Kalach, Alfredo Melly, Andrea Benavides, Archigram, Architectural Collage, Architecture, california, Case Study Homes, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Santamaria, Christine & Russell Forester, collage, Coop Himmelblau, Craig Ellwood, Culver City, Daly Genik Architects, Del Mar, Don Wexler, Ed Killingsworth, Eric Owen Moss, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Frank Gehry, Gehry Technologies, Greene and Greene, Hector Perez, Henry Palomino, Kathy McCormick & Ted Smith, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Luce Et Studio, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Morphosis, Nancy Tariga, newschool of architecture and design, Palm Springs, pasadena, Residential Design, Richard NeutraRudolph Schindler, san diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Monica, Sebastian Mariscal, Sebastian Mariscal Studio, Smith and Others, SoCal Exploratory Design Workshop, Southern California Design and Architecture, Superstudio, Ted Smith, venice on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Something eye-opening occurred at my school yesterday. I attended the exhibit for SoCal -Ex : Exploratory Design Workshop, completed by Professor Hector Perez and his students. Here are the specific of the Workshop: 6 Explorers Andrea Benavides/Alfredo Melly/Henry Palomino/Charles Santamaria/Nancy Tariga 25 Days July 12-August 5 10 Field Trips San Diego/La Jolla/Del Mar/San Juan Capistrano/Los Angeles/Santa [...]
Chairs, Chairs, Chairs (on Coffee)
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Design, Desk Crit, Drawing, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Painting, school, School Work, Watercolor, tagged Betty Edwards, Chairs, Class Experiment, Coffee, Figure Ground, How to Draw on the right Side of the Brain, Miti Aiello, Picasso, Stravinsky, Talent, Upside Down Drawing on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another exercise with ‘Drawing on the Righ Side of the Brain’. By drawing the space, not the chair, the proportions were incredibly accurate in all drawings. The drawings can be read as Nolli Maps of imaginary cities, we can see piazzas, palazzi…we can see perspective, spatial configurations/plans, abstract paintings… I love the ambivalent water medium, [...]
Desk Crit [The Importance of Sketching II]
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Books, Desk Crit, Drawing, Featured Artists, NaBloPoMo, Quotes, tagged Architecture, Compositions in Architecture, Design, Don Hanlon, download e-book, Drawing, Frederick Franck, Marc Auge', michael nobbs, Non-Places: Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity, sketch, sketch everyday. draw everyday, start to draw your life, the importance of drawing, the importance of sketching, Zen Seeing Zen Drawing on June 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Drawing is thinking. Hand-eye coordination is essential not only to accurately render what you see, but to bring forth and execute what you see in your mind’s eye, i.e designing. I read once that we should use the word ‘draw’ as in ‘drawing information’, as from a well. To draw a building or space is [...]
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