Dan Hogman

thing #387 — People think drawing is talent.  It's just 3 questions: Where is light coming from? Where is the building heavy? Where am I standing? Answer those, and you can draw anything you see. Seeing = asking.  #howtodraw

thing #386 — If kids can't play in your street, you didn't build a street. You built a road for cars. #city #kids #street #urbanism

The richest houses today aren't houses. They're private museums. Big museums keep 90% of art hidden in vaults. So collectors built their own at home. Audience of one. #385 #architecture

thing #384 that I’ve learned as an architect — If your idea only exists in your head and dies the second you try to draw it, it was never an idea. It was a vibe.

thing #383 that I’ve learned as an architect — Diagonal poche. A straight wall says “I divide.” A diagonal wall says “I move.” Straight poche = you are trapped. Diagonal poche = you are being pulled somewhere.

thing #382 that I've learned as an architect Your first idea isn't your best idea. It's just the one protecting you from looking stupid. The fresh idea only shows up after you have the balls to trash the safe one. Start over. Second draft is always braver.

thing #381 that I've learned as an architect — Why architects wear black: it hides the coffee, the ink, the 3 days of not sleeping, and the fact we have no idea what we're doing either. We just look like we do. Witty, but true. #architectsWearBlack #thingsivelearnedasanarchitect

thing #380 What about those alleys? — Tourists walk the main street. Architects walk the alley behind it. That's where you find the real scale, the real life on how the city is lived that the facade was trying to hide. #alleys #thingsivelearnedasanarchitect #urbanExploration

thing #379 — If you're spending more time fixing it than it would take to redo it, trash it. Your second attempt carries the knowledge of the first, without its mistakes. #thingsivelearnedasanarchitect #designAdvice #architectureStudent

What makes some succeed? I have not met a talented architect who succeeded without endurance. But I have met many enduring architects who succeeded without obvious talent. #talent #endurance #thingsivelearnedasanarchitect

Thing #377 - stating the obvious here? The European historic city operates on an economy of duration — value accrues through weathering, patina, and continuity.

The architect’s agency ends at the threshold of the house. What transforms that house into a home — the occupation, the appropriation, the invisible negotiations of family — is entirely beyond architectural authorship. #home #residentialdesign #architecturaltheory

Thing #375 The museum’s most critical boundary is not its wall, but its temporal threshold. Upon entry, you do not merely leave the street physically; you leave the temporality of the street. #museumdesign #temporality #museumtheory

Five steps —- 1. Eye Level: Set your horizon line at eye level 2. Vanishing Points: Find where parallel lines converge 3. Massing: Loose-sketch major building volumes 4. Openings: Grid out vertical axes for windows, doors 5. Entourage & Ink: add figures, and site context.

Thing #374 that I’ve learned as an architect People Are The Architecture The most enduring places are never those with the most articulated architecture, but those with the most permissive threshold for occupation. #urbanism #publicspace #humanScale #placemaking

“You arrive in a city and you recognize its domes in the pattern of its invisible cities.” — after Calvino.

The balcony must be understood not as a private amenity, but as the insertion of the city into the facade itself.  It is the threshold where private interiority becomes publicly legible and the public realm becomes privately appropriated.  A #inhabitation #housing

Facade vs elevation? We represent the facade as a flat, two-dimensional elevation — a graphic fiction that flattens its spatial agency. Phenomenally, the facade is never flat. #facade #facadedesign #architecturaltheory #phenomenology #architecturaldrawing

POV: you’re in Italy and you can’t stop filming the roofs.

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