by amanda@quarterdeck.io | May 30, 2019 | News, What do you see?
My students this spring semester embarked on a journey. They essentially wrote the “brief” for the next generation of students who will approach the idea of world design in the coming Fall’s Studio. Human civilization’s impact the earth’s ecosystems is recognized as...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | May 13, 2019 | News
I was so excited when the home exam for admission into The Cooper Union School of Architecture arrived in February 1980. In addition to a portfolio, one had to present solutions to the following problems. Here are mine: A. Choose a tool and show, in a single drawing,...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | May 2, 2019 | News
Drawing is understood through its origin, to pull or extract. Extracting or pulling are motions from and towards. This idea of drawing is more specific than the generic image; as in, drawing out from the imagination or memory to the page or drawing from the world...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | Apr 10, 2019 | News
From the article . . . “Speaking to the project’s connection with environmental activism, RISD Professor of Architecture Kyna Leski said, ‘Beauty grips you; it makes it very difficult to look away. You can have different ideas of what it is, but …it does...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | Mar 26, 2019 | Contour, News
A friend of mine, Jennifer Orkin, also known as the Instagram phenomenon, August Wren, proposed an Instagram challenge to draw / paint as many small portraits in the month of March. I am drawing my portraits from memory. Drawing from memory is a pleasure: I start...