100 cubes!

During my freshman year in college, in my design drawing class we were assigned to draft 50 perfect axonometric cubes and then to draw 50 cubes free hand ones. I guess the intention was to get efficient at drawing 3-d in order to design objects. It’s interesting to read Bernhard Schneider divide 3d drawing in two black and white groups of axonometric and perspective. He takes into question Peter Eisenman design philosophy to use axonometric drawings, model and eventually to the building. Schneider draws the line at axonometric refers to the object and perspective refers to viewer. As industrial designers we never really presented any objects (products) in axonometric in our presentations. It seems like perspective is more effective for larger objects and along with other context next to where it becomes alive. We always draw our objects in isometrics. Perhaps because we were displaying design of an object not ones view of it. I am not sure how does the isomeric view fit in between Schneider object and viewer division. Perhaps drawing on a 60 or 30 degree angles would give a more accurate drawing and does not distort our perception.

I think Nathan and I can learn a few lessons from the park and peak where their tectonic strategy was to composition of floating spaces as well as dividing up the space/program into a series of pavilions.