This winter was fantastic. We’re guessing that the snow was on the ground, continually, for around 10 weeks. This allowed for XC just about any day you wanted. We were able to maintain the same track set thru the fields. Every time there was new snow, we were usually able to ski over the old trail. As we did, we kept compressing the snow in the tracks. As the snow was melting, the denser snow in the tracks is the last to go.
We are happy to announce that Kurt’s book, Transparent Drawing, is now available in the US. Published by Black Dog Press in the UK, it attempts to provide a new mode of knowledge about form. To do this, the book offers a set of analogue tools and concepts which anyone can use to think about form and design in a new way. Historical precedents for the theory are also extensively linked.
The idea for Transparent Drawing sprang from my daily sketches here in the office. In a direct way, it is a manifestation of our practice in Cooperstown. So you might say that Altonview is powered by Transparent Drawing.
