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Rigging for Insight
Lets distinguish models from drawings. Models are spatial whole environments. Their medium is mental model, physical model , and more recently digital model . With computers and software, to mental and physical models the digital medium has been added, not as a replacement for physical and mental models, but as a supplement, as an assist.…
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Your Models are Fuzzy
Your models are fuzzy. You know that, right? Imagine a thing. Hold a mental model of it in your mind. Try doing this, for any thing. Say, the bicycle you ride, or the car you drive, or your dog. Imagine this thing. Develop a model of it in your mind, and reflect on it. Your…
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Interaction >> Interpretation >> Action
Interaction >> Interpretation >> Action This short document has a simple purpose: to encourage useful software development in the architecture, engineering, construction industry via clearer methods of interaction with models, in order to move faster from model interaction, to insight, to action. There is no reason to aim low. The industry needs good, solid, useful…
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Industry discourse will liberate itself once it self-liberates from its own obsessive idea that drawing is a chain to break free from
https://parametricmonkey.com/2020/09/02/rethinking-revit-our-stockholm-syndrome/ An interesting article but in some ways very familiar. We’ve heard some of these assumptions it seems since, like forever: “The question should never have been, “how can we document a project better?” Instead, it should have been, “how can we design and construct buildings better?”“ “…BIM are merely digitalising old ways of working.…
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“Drawing is dying”, it is said
This idea should finally be retired, just like the idea that silent movies should remain silent, that movies should NOT have sound synchronized into them. That actually was an argument, made by none other than Jack Warner, the Jack Warner, of Warner Brothers, in 1926: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_film#CommerceHe was wrong and soon found out. The “keep models and drawings separate” idea has dominated…
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STILL talking about drawings
5 years ago last month I moderated a discussion at a tech conference and was asked a question about the relation of drawings and models. I talked about the utility of each and their fusion (drawings overlayed in models). While I answered, someone yelled: “I can’t believe that in 2014 at a tech conference we’re…
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On Exactitude in Science
… In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size…
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the infusion of drawing as equipment built-into models, and drawing’s evolution there
It’s common in the architecture engineering construction industry for people to say that they: “…look forward to a time when we stop creating 2D drawings as part of deliverables and use only 3D models across all design phases.” They say that getting rid of drawings “will resolve many issues as problems can be masked in…
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getting rid of…
What’s written today about digital modeling software, and the process of using it, for design and construction of buildings and such things, seems always, as it has for 20 years now, to be about getting rid of things. If digital modeling of a building is to live up to the promises made, the promises made…
The Pyramid of the
Magician at Uxmal
Uxmal is an ancient Maya city located in present-day Mexico. It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of Mayan culture.
On the right: Governor’s Palace, detail of the main gate
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