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
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Olson Kundig — Berkshire Residence
Olson Kundig — Berkshire Residence: A collaborative global design practice whose work expands the context of built and natural landscapes.
10 Hand-Drawn Sketches that Prove CAD Will Never Kill Drawing - Architizer Journal
10 Hand-Drawn Sketches that Prove CAD Will Never Kill Drawing - Architizer Journal: These architectural drawings bring together the hand and the mind.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
100 Most Popular Wood Residential Popular Images Ideas | Architizer
100 Most Popular Wood Residential Popular Images Ideas | Architizer: Browse all images. Discover inspiration and find the perfect architecture firm for your project based on your requirements and vision.
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
I.M. Pei, acclaimed architect, dead at 102 - CNN Style
I.M. Pei, acclaimed architect, dead at 102 - CNN Style: Pei will always be remembered for his redevelopment of the Louvre Museum in Paris in the 1980s.
Friday, March 8, 2019
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Saturday, February 16, 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.
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