Tuesday, November 5, 2019

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture | The Cooper Union

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture | The Cooper Union: The Cooper Union, est. 1859, grants degrees in art, architecture and engineering and offers courses in continuing education in New York City's East Village

Monday, September 9, 2019

SO&CO slots skinny office block into alley in Tokyo

SO&CO slots skinny office block into alley in Tokyo: SO&CO has fitted a skinny office block into an alley between two buildings in Tokyo, Japan, which contains five tiny concrete workspaces.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

software guides for architects

software guides for architects: These 10 software guides for architects are sure to be pivotal resources for both novice and experienced users.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Collect Your Favorite Architecture Using Architizer's New “Like” Button! - Architizer Journal

Collect Your Favorite Architecture Using Architizer's New “Like” Button! - Architizer Journal: Save the best architectural images you find on Architizer with a simple click of the LIKE button.

10 Hot Young Architecture Firms Across Middle America - Architizer Journal

10 Hot Young Architecture Firms Across Middle America - Architizer Journal: With a foundation based on a modernist school of thought, young architects throughout Central America are designing spaces that respond to their strong cultural heritage and specific climate challenges.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

8 Reasons Every Architect Should Visit Hamburg - Architizer Journal

8 Reasons Every Architect Should Visit Hamburg - Architizer Journal: Hamburg has been designed with rigorous attention to its waterfront. Today, the city continues to reimagine its urban fabric through transformative cultural projects.

VR Leaves the Headset: Enter the VR Room for Architects

VR Leaves the Headset: Enter the VR Room for Architects: The Avalon VR room is a purpose-built space where architects immerse themselves in a 1-to-1 projection of their own design software, viewed through standard-size eyeglasses.

12 Iconic Buildings by Legendary Architect I.M. Pei - Architizer Journal

12 Iconic Buildings by Legendary Architect I.M. Pei - Architizer Journal: The architect displayed an incredible ability to respond to varied design briefs and contexts through the decades.

10 Drawings That Changed Architecture - Architizer Journal

10 Drawings That Changed Architecture - Architizer Journal: Architectural drawings have been used throughout millennia as a way to imagine new realities and rethink the world around us.

Friday, May 17, 2019

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

What You Need to Know About Alison Brooks - Azure Magazine

What You Need to Know About Alison Brooks - Azure Magazine: RIBA-awarding winning U.K. architect Alison Brooks is speaking at Architect@Work, an international architectural convention being held in Toronto on April 11 and 12. Here are four key reasons why she is considered one of Europe's most important architects.

Monday, December 3, 2018

Urban Architecture, planning and design. Essay

One of the most valuable things I have brought away from working on design (Creativity, Innovation and Change, University of Pennsylvania) projects is the realization that I have become more aware of the need for good, sensible, realistic design; design as it is applied to so many of the common things I see and make note of every day in my little town (population @ 6000). I see it in controls, signage, landscape elements, traffic patterns, safety devices, tools, etc. My involvement in “design and creative thinking” has made me more aware, but at the same time more frustrated with the abundance of poor, mediocre, and shoddy design that may cost even more money than good and sensible design.
I think that my fellow students should be thankful, as their studies having opened their eyes to possibilities and hopefully to the willingness to share some of their personal and newfound knowledge, by volunteering to solve a problem they notice in their immediate environment. We can write letters to our newspaper describing a problem and offering some aspect of a solution. We can volunteer to speak to a group to offer solutions, show and describe some local examples of things that need to be modified, improved, or disposed of. What are the obvious things that can be done to improve the look and utility of this typical alley in my town? [Image above.] 1. Awareness of the problem, some simple approaches to prototype or diagram a change, multimedia examples of shoddy design, finished and improved designs, and an effort to help citizens become aware of the rewards for this knowledge and skill. In so many ways, Education is the key and probably the least expensive way to bring about change in people’s minds and ultimately in the creation and use of things we are surrounded with in our homes, workplace, and public spaces.
The picture of the mailbox post on the street is how some local’s dealt with the new paving on the street. The posts were covered or removed for their mailboxes and the new asphalt paving did NOT cover the earth completely to the concrete sidewalk, so the weeds grow between the sidewalk and the new street paving. Inclined to remove or discourage weeds, citizens use noxious weed killer, etc., which finds its way into the storm sewer system. A shoddy job of paving is thus extended and magnified by poisoning the water that finds its way into the nearby strait.