Themes

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.
Paul Valery

As artists, the one true inquiry of art as a pure subject is an inquiry of our potential to know the world around us and our actively being in it, with a particular emphasis on the aesthetic. This world is not just somehow given to us whole. We perceive, we shape the world, and as artists we discover and give value to our human potential to "see" the infinite richness (beauty?) in everything, creating an extended aesthetic reality.
Robert Irwin

The entire secret of designing is the conscious insertion of a building into the community of what exists.
Heinz Wetzel

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Tip of the day

Use the photos of your models to advance your design by adding colors, textures, changes in opacity, or sketching over them and then overlaying the sketch into the file, and cutting and pasting elements in the image. Don't try to make it photo realistic, the result can clearly be artificial.
While adjusting the physical model will be necessary as well, this is a quicker way to study your project in conjunction with the sections. With this method, you can even play with the massing where appropriate.

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