Buildings Fingered in NYC Carbon Inventory | News | Architectural Record |
Report suggests buildings are ~85% of NYC greenhouse emissions... Guess they don't have many cows / sheep...
At this link: http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=1395 you can find a list
of the architecture blogs that internet users consider the most
interesting - as assessed by looking at how many times people link to
them..
BLDBLOG )http://www.bldgblog.blogspot.com/) is number 1; Archidose
(http://www.archidose.blogspot.com/) is number 4...
Architecture Ed Changing to Keep Up
Now here's something to get you thinking - talking: an article at Cadalyst which says some interesting things:
With the AEC industry moving rapidly to 3D modeling and BIM technologies, universities are nipping at its heels in an attempt to remain viable and keep their students in demand in the marketplace ...
Although CAD courses are offered as electives, most schools of architecture don't require CAD for coursework. "We don't teach word processing for people to write," said Eastman. "We assume that people know how to write. It's the same with CAD. At the university level, it's very hard to justify giving course credit toward a professional degree based on how to use a tool." But, Eastman notes, although it is not formally taught, experience in CAD is gained through assigned exercises. ...
That's Chuck Eastman a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology Colleges of Architecture and Computer Science.
This is a debate that it seems to me has had no adequate answer for a long time, and for which there may never be a single 'right' answer.
I have been involved in core 3D digital design studio exercises for more than 15 years, and now a full trimester long core 3D digital studio for the last 7+ years. There has always had to be an element of training to provide some basics - preferably for no credit - and the conscientious student always does ok in this. There are always some who leave things to the last minute who do poorly at these exercises and the subsequent design projects and who complain that they cannot do as well with this tool as with the tool they would prefer to use. I recall exercises with ink and tracing paper where similar complaints were made.
The issue for me has been that this introductory modelling exercise requires an equivalent drawing organisation / construction documentation or similar phase in a subsequent core course which is a pedagogical experience that I believe is harder to create.
What is clear to me is that schools need to provide some leadership, but they also have to rely on students to practice the basic skills in order to become proficient. With most student copies of CAD software now at the lowest cost to students that it has ever been in 30 years and with computers capable of CAD also becoming affordable, that out of school practice is becoming ever more feasible.
Your thoughts?
This 'competition' run by CGArchitect.com has a requirement that people enter their best images now to qualify! Qualification round is April 16-21. Actual competition will be from April 23 to June 30.
To quote the site: If you are one of the select few chosen from the qualification round you will be eligible to compete in the 2 final challenges. Full details and rules for each of these challenges will be posted in the CHALLENGES section of the competition site.
Know anyone who might be up for the challenge? Pass on the link...
In any case cgarchitect ought to be one of those 'favourites' in your del.icio.us account. Especially the 'resources' section which contains tutorials and other information designed to assist the development of better images...
It's rather sad that there are only two images labelled Light Studio in the gallery of 10's of 1000's of images: One of them is by Klaus from Lichtplaner - the people in Austria who produce the software:
There are however, 137 Mental ray images like this from Martin Richardson of Flic Digital:
A load of rubbish - otherwise known as the eco-friendly homes of the future | Expat Living | Global | Telegraph
Great headline - but how long have these been around? Old news...
Still an Earthship in France could (just) be considered news.
Algorithms in Architecture
Doing the Smart Geometry tutorials? Enrolled in the computer applications animation / scripting elective? This is for you. If only to learn the extreme visual pattern making end of the spectrum of R&D effort that parametric architecture offers.
omnispace: Architecture:
An odd collection of really interesting stuff. Mostly news items. Plenty of interesting links.
No suggestion as to the source. no apparent archives, No listing of the date when items were uploaded just an ambiguous time...
But, if this had an rss feed, worth watching. One is left wondering where all this interesting stuff is collected?
About the Open Architecture Network | Open Architecture Network
Check out this web site. An attempt to re-write the rules on architecture / community / professionalism. Cannot yet see the shape of what might / might not be from this web site. Like many such efforts - it looks good - the idea has an underlying strength (facilitating sharing of resources to overcome adversity - improving the quality / sustainability of housing). But - you can hear the but in my writing? - but, I cannot see how a web site of this type can yet do anything useful? An idea - an app - in search of a use?
Now the organisation behind OAN - Architecture for Humanity - that's a different thing altogether. Check them out and the good ideas and intentions seem to be getting somewhere.
Despite opposition, Tate Modern extension wins the go-ahead: "
Another interesting / controversial building to visualise in the Digital-Craft course?
Eat Your CAD
I see on this Bentley/Microstation web site that there is a rumour floating around that Autodesk will change the name of Revit.
The announcement says: "Following the recent news that ADT has been renamed ACA (AutoCAD Architecture), and after careful consideration Revit is to be renamed from 1st April 2007 to ADT to avoid any “potential customer confusion”.
The explanation for this change is probably best found here.
A 'Space Learning Centre' is probably not a 'museum' in the conventional sense. But it is part of the whole museums as cathedral
notional paradigm shift in urban design.
Well worth a look to see if it is worth modelling.
A design that has already been scaled down to fit the budget and about which the Museum Director is quoted in this article as saying: “this is a very energetic, adventurous design and it needs somebody who’s far more energetic and adventurous than I am to see it through to the end.”
Another building with very large North Lights.
National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center, Taiwan. Mecanoo architects.
Museum Expansion, Coast to Coast - New York Times Under a heading of Museum Expansion, Coast to Coast - New York Times the New York Tmes has this fantastic interactive picture showing forty six (count them - 46!) museum projects in the USA alone...
Want ideas about what to model - this is it! Many of them are also illustrated.
OMA Ny design proposal in a fascinating video exposition placing the building proposal in context. A very different 'view' than the one I quoted a few weeks back: http://digital-craft.blogspot.com/2007/02/eyesore-of-month-by-james-howard.html#links
So there I was in Youtube looking at a couple of architectural links and this was listed as 'related'. A view of using second life for 'architectural design...
I am left hugely underwhelmed, as I was when I took the SL tour ... As I have noted in a previous post http://digital-craft.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-those-of-you-fascinated-by-prospect.html#links the hype about the number of users of SL seems to be just that - hype. This looks like the 'reality' is based on a seriously flawed view of what architecture is / might be. The environment is so diagrammatic, so lacking in atmosphere - charm - subtlety etc that I wonder whether it could ever be anything more than a toy... Simulationists could spend a lifetime exploring how to add light, sound air flow in manner that assisted understanding of the architectural environment, and still not succeed. Whether the work on hdr image viewing devices or auditory enhancement of visual images will be enough only time can tell. At present I prefer to focus on more directly useful and interesting material.
A cheesy animation - 'state of the art' in 2006. An example of the walk thru as advertisement... This is what the Digital Craft animation course is specifically reacting against.
The Building
Came across this building today. The images online at the Museum site are insufficient to construct a model from - but they come close. At the date of writing - the building is under construction. Oddly, the trace was not a search engine looking for architecture, but a news item on a general site noting Brad Pitt visiting the museum consruction site.
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