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
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
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...
Diller Scofidio Renfro's First U.S. building
The Blur pavilion in Switzerland was just too easy to model! Now hopefully we have a building design we can tackle in the modelling course... Also referred to here
SPACES; Museum Sparkles; Bayshore Looks Fake
In amongst this description of how a waterfront mall is 'Theme Park Retro' is a reference to the ' cool and contemporary Discovery World' building by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson. Potentially another modelling opportunity?
Peter Cook
And I thought Peter Cook had switched firms and gone to work with the great architect in the sky! Certainly did not expect to find him writing 'I told you so' pieces for online magazines.
It's refreshing to hear someone who is suggesting that borrowing from the theories of other disciplines has limited use in one's own discipline (linguistics for Strauss/de Saussure ideas of a fundamental 'deep structure' to architectural language; Deleuze and company for some idea of - well what exactly - analogies about time / experience and the unfolding of space?; Derrida for an obscurely worded deconstruction of the 'text' - whatever text is in architecture, surely not just the writing about architecture? - where the understanding of the philosophy cannot be disentangled from the understanding of the philosopher;) However, it's hard to see this as other than an argument that the craft tradition of sitting at the feet of the 'prominent architect' in class, are employed by them and then eventually strike out on their own to become the next gen's 'prominent architect'.
I have always understood that the idea of a university education was to challenge, to advance, to analyse and to develop the status quo - not merely to perpetuate it. The institution provides the distance from practice to allow this to occur. Sitting at the feet of the 'prominent architect' is more likely to develop clones. Still: well worth the read.
Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver, Colorado | MCA
According to the MCA the proposed design by British architect David Adjaye is "...at once bold and refined...". The image they are selling it on is not quite the Daniel Libeskind Denver Art Museum which "... looks as though a volcano has exploded with an immense pile of ship parts, jewel-faceted boulders, and giant titanium pterodactyl beaks." Denver is apparently advancing an image of cultural sophistication to belie the cowboy image of the past. Another building to find more out about for modelling?
Cultural District of Saadiyat Island - Abu Dhabi - Architecture - - New York Times
All the usual suspects. In the words of the article: "... celebrity architects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sprawling, spaceshiplike performing arts center designed by Zaha Hadid." but a new locale: Abu Dhabi. Definitely worth exploring through 3D modelling.
The New, New Museum
Another museum building for New York. Designed by Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA of Japan. Looks like one that could be really interesting to model. Hard to tell from this web site, and their own web site is a useless place marker. However, the new book, may be a good source of modelling info.
UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis - Virtual London: Online Participation
University College London's Virtual London - Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). An interesting concept, but a not so interesting web page description of the project and where it's at. Much more interesting is the Digital Urban blog from someof the staff / students at CASA.. Their gmap software for Google Earth enhancement
The Neighbourhood
a new architectural cinematography firm. Featured at the Vismasters Design Modelling and Visualisation Conference associated with Imagina uropean 3D visualisation forum - Monte Carlo Feb 2 2007
Lecture today covered the radiosity and light studio and mental ray renders.
I ran through some example tutorials on The VizDepot on radiosity and mental ray.
I noted the length of time renders can take and the need to test setting before embarking on a full render.
I pointed out that a radiosity solution is calculated before a render is done. In the example file a radiosity solution took 43 minutes and the render on top of it took anoth 23 seconds!
The process of 'baking' textures was introduced. With baked textures the lighting solution can be exported to an interative power point 3D model...
Also mentioned was the use of Light Studio materials - for the first time in 15 years, relatively easy - notes on the rendering tutorial on architecture-onlineteaching
BBSc 303 - Web Page Tutorial: "This tutorial will show you the basics of how to
set up a web site. Not just one or two web pages, but the philosophy
and thinking behind the organisation and presentation of information
on the web."
This was also the topic of half of the Lecture on May 16, 2006. Follow through / work through the site creation / publish options
Photoshop Luminance Equalization Tutorial
Photoshop Luminance Equalization Tutorial for tiling maps
These two links to content from Jeremy Birn's web site related to his excellent book Digital Lighting and rendering
The second is really important for setting up and rendering your own materials and ensuring that when the material is tiled across a facade that the map assigned as a material does not show seam or join lines...
yaledailynews.com - Learning to love archi-torture
How architecture school work looks to people doing other undergrad degrees!
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: "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!
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)
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