yaledailynews.com - Learning to love archi-torture
yaledailynews.com - Learning to love archi-torture
How architecture school work looks to people doing other undergrad degrees!
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Movie: Sketches of Frank Gehry at news views and analysis
Coming to a cinema near you (released in USA May 12 2006):
Movie: Sketches of Frank Gehry at news views and analysis
"Frank Gehry one of the greatest architects known to man, and arguably a giant of his field today, is going to star in a documentary by his name.
The documentary releases in NYC on May 12. Check out the trailer on their website."
pdf Press Kit about Sydney Pollack's film offers an intriguing hope for a potential blockbuster at this years NZ Annual Film Festival along the lines of Concert of Wills etc.Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News - America's Top 10 Green Schools
Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News - America's Top 10 Green Schools: "The early-American school kids swaddled with scarves to within a breath of suffocating as they hiked to the little red school house didn't know that their classrooms suffered from faulty insulation and bad air. But that's because no one thought much about the coal fire's smoke, the oil lantern's lung-clogging potential, the dank air's capacity to promote mildew and molds, or the contaminated water from the well."
Green schools - finally!
Avant-garde architecture in Spain - WMMN Blog
yet ab=nother blog entry about the MOMA NY exhibition 2006 on Spanish Architecture
we make money not art: Avant-garde architecture in Spain (1)
DOE: High Performance Buildings - Design Approach
DOE: High Performance Buildings - Design Approach: "A high-performance commercial building is a building with energy, economic, and environmental performance that is substantially better than standard practice. It's energy efficient, so it saves money and natural resources. It's a healthy place to live and work for its occupants and has relatively low impact on the environment. All this is achieved through a process called whole-building design."
Renzo Piano Building Workshop Official Site - The New York Times Building, New York City (NY), USA
Renzo Piano Building Workshop Official Site - The New York Times Building, New York City (NY), USA
One of the hundreds of references to this innovative 'sustainable' building.
"How architects build brands". 'The golden Age of the Skyscraper" Articles byWitold Rybczynski
How architects build brands. By Witold Rybczynski: "How architects market themselves."
Check out also Slate's Slide Show related to Witold's article 'The golden Age of the Skyscraper"
Make for interesting reading.
optics.org
optics.org: "Light transmitting concrete is set to go on sale later this year."
Found this today. Date is 11 March 2004, and I don't see evidence for the widespread sale of this stuff yet - but who knows? I wonder what the optical properties are and how one might therefore model them?
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
BBSC 303 Digital Craft Lecture 7 - 2 May 2006
We watched an 18 minute 1995 video James Burke
. He described the problems of communication between Architecture and Building Science computer programs. He also described the beginning of what has become a programme of 10 years in length developing the Building Information Model (BIM). The pros and cons of the idea and what exactly the concept might lead to were the major themes of this presentation.
David Harrison then presented his paper that he presented in early April to the CAADRIA conference in Kumamoto in Japan. He described his research project and thus the background to Reasonate. He also showed how to use a number of the enhanced features of Reasonate, including a first introduction to how to use the new 'Web Page' feature to make and publish the web pages that will be a core part of the hand in of Assignment 1 and Assignment 2.
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