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When I thought of the triangle in composition, one image came immediately to mind, the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza.   Of the seven wonders of the ancient world, only the pyramids are still standing.   Between their stable shape and being made of stone I wouldn’t be surprised if they were around for another 3000 years. Since I just did a demo of I.M. Pei’s Louvre , the glass pyramid came to mind. And with that came the Da Vinci Code movie...   O.K., now I’m off the road and into the ditch... The reality is that the pyramid shape applies to an amazing number of objects, from mountains to evergreens to half-length portraits.   I grew up on the edge of the Great Plains where the land was flat to the horizon, but scattered across the landscape were the farmsteads with pyramidal houses and barns, as well as the churches built by the various ethnic groups as they moved westward. From Churches of Minnesota by A.K. Lathrop 2003 So it is clear that this shape is a part of natu...

Logic is both a sword and shield;  Passion is only a sword and is likely to wound the guilty and innocent alike.

Note: the following, similar to my post on the Louvre , has to do with techniques from 20 years ago.   It could be categorized as “history” rather than “demonstration”, but the reader can take it for what it is worth, and use it in any way they wish. Early August 1992, while I was summering in the Adirondacks I got a call from Jon Pickard at Cesar Pelli’s offices in New Haven.   He needed a rendering of a project in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.   I had already worked on a job in Kuala Lumpur, so I knew the city (vaguely), but the project that Jon outlined over the phone was well beyond anything I’d ever seen.    It was a twin tower skyscraper that would eventually become the tallest building in the world.   And, the rendering needed to be finished in 10 days! Kuala Lumpur is the capitol and largest city of Malaysia.   It began as a boom town based on tin mining in the 1850’s, but quickly grew into a multicultural metropolis, with Malay, Chinese, Muslims fr...