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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. We can use columns to define a space as well as to hold up the roof. Our Swiss-French friend, Le Corbusier, […]
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. Sometimes all it takes is a good floor to create a place. In the case of Philip Johnson’s glass house in […]
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. Consider the roof: It protects us from the elements; keeps the rain off; provides shelter. It also is a major determinant […]
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. Doors are another form of filter that get placed in a wall. Doors are meant to allow us control over who […]
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. Walls are designed by their nature to keep things either in or out. Windows are filters in the wall. Windows allow views […]
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. Another of my favorite buildings is a tomb, a mausoleum, called The Tempietto (the little temple), built by Donato Bramante as […]
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. One of my favorite buildings, one that I find not just impressive, but emotionally moving, is The Pantheon. It was commissioned […]
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. I have written about this before, but I think that the Origin of Architecture was when the first early people stood […]
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. Marc Antoine Laugier was an 18th century Jesuit Priest and architectural theorist. He developed the idea that architecture, the human act […]
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. In the modern era, Le Corbusier, the great Swiss-French architect, one of the Modern Masters of Architecture, developed a method of […]
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. I believe that architecture starts with us, humans. There is no better illustration of the idea of the centrality of human […]
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. Wish me luck. :p To start off: My Personal Architectural Creed. I have posted this before, and it has a page […]
Do you like watching HGTV or DIYTV? If you do, you are going to LOVE Grand Designs, a British TV series now in it’s 17th season. I discovered it streaming on NetFlix. I believe the current season may be available on Hulu. Some episodes are available on YouTube. It’s worth […]
Continuing my occasional series about people and things that inspire me as a designer, here is a brief video about two of my favorite architects, Alison + Peter Smithson. The Smithsons were remarkable and influential architects, teachers, and thinkers in the UK, active from the late 1940’s until their deaths […]