Archtober20: Plans
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. The word “plans” in architecture can have several meanings. In this case I am referring specifically to drawings of a building looking down at the building […]
Archtober19: Layering
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Layering is a technique architects use to enrich the experience of a building. It takes advantage of the fact that we move through buildings, passing through […]
Archtober18: Making Places
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. This is the most important post of the series. I should have started with this post. But I was so excited about writing the Archtober posts, […]
Archtober17: Sketching
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. Sketching is one of the most important skills an architect can develop. There are several different kinds of sketches. There are conceptual sketches in which the […]
Archtober16: Poche
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. This post is a little bit of “inside baseball” talk. Poche is a French word, pronounced “po-shay”. It refers to the areas inside a building which […]
Archtober15: Transparency
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. The opposite characteristic to solidity is transparency. The ability to see into or through a building. There is possibly not more transparent building that Philip Johnson’s […]
Archtober14: Solidity
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. There is no architect I can think of that better exploits the quality of solidity in architecture than Mario Botta. Mario Botta’s architecture is all about […]
Archtober13: Walls
October is National Architecture Month, also known in some circles as Archtober. To commemorate the month, I am going to post a brief post every day of the month. When you think about architecture, you probably think about walls. Walls define spaces, rooms, places. They can be made out of many different material and have […]