TenLinks.com - Ultimate Directories for Technology Professionals

TenLinks.com - Ultimate Directories for Technology Professionals A very useful resource - at least at February 2007. Not just listing the top 3D software, but also for each package listing the top internet resources available for each...

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional: AECbytes Product Review

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional: AECbytes Product Review
So: version 8 of Acrobat is available. This review examines the usefulness of this new pdf creation tool. It points to the imminent release of the new version of Acrobat 3D as allowing improved 3D interactive publishing in pdf format.
What is argued here to be an improvement in the v8 vanilla Acrobat is its ability to batch process output from AutoCAD - to produce a set of 'drawings' in separate pages of the pdf document. Where this places Adobe relative to the AutoDesk dwf format I leave to others to comment on. What is interesting is to note that apparently Adobe are talking to Nemetschek - the vendors of Vectorworks and the purchasers of Graphisoft, who produce ArchiCAD. Where this may lead, in terms of the dwf vs pdf format is anyone's guess.

Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines - Architecture - Review - New York Times

Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines - Architecture - Review - New York Times

A to have a local newspaper which had content like the New York Times ona regular basis?! This article is about a gallery exhibition on small architectural critique magazines of the 1960's and 70's which: is " a piercing critique, intended or not, of the smoothness of our contemporary design culture. These magazine covers map out an era when architecture was simmering with new ideas. You’re bound to leave the show with a nagging sense of what was lost as well as gained during the electronic juggernaut of the last three decades." ..'nuff said...