October is National Architecture Month, also referred to as “Archtober”. Last year, to commemorate the month, I posted something about architecture every single day of the month. It was not easy to keep up a daily posting schedule. This month, I intend to maintain my mostly weekly posting schedule. This […]
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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. I hope that you have enjoyed my Architecture Month posts. Perhaps you learned something you hadn’t known before. Reflecting back on […]
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. October has been Architecture Month. At the very last minute, October 1st to be precise, I decided to jump into 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. You may have noticed that I have illustrated my Archtober posts with images that would fall into two broad categories: classical […]
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. Le Corbusier famously said that Architecture is the masterful, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. And that […]
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. Historically, the way we build is determined by the technology available at the time. While technology is having some impact on […]
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. As I explain in my book, Working With An Architect, most buildings today are assembled, they are not constructed. The difference being […]
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. Materials are essential in determining the character of a place. The decision between one material or another can mean that a […]
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. Details, in architecture, usually refers to how the parts of the building are assembled. There are many details in a building. […]
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. Perspective drawings allow architects to look at the building in three dimensions. They can be constructed or “eyeballed”. Perspectives approximate 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. Elevation drawings are related to plan and section drawings. Elevations are 2 dimensional drawings of the outside of the building. They […]
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. Sections are another type of drawing architects use. They are related to plans. Sections are a drawing cut through the building. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]