Reading Hands
Preparing literate hands.
“A hand can’t really think on its own, but it can remember, know and measure. If you observe the kinetic action of the hands when speaking about making, they gesture in the air to articulate shape and measure. The hand knows space. It learns to read by touch.”
— Cognitive Depth in Cubism, McGrath and Edge
The excerpt below is a description of a reading workshop given to beginning students to “teach hands to read” architecture. The hand learns its art, gets its specialized knowledge, only by making. Since hands don’t learn abstractly, you send them into the workshop.
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