the journal of an architect
Two favourites from the sketches category – one about recording an image, the other about recording the action.
Sketches
And a few choices from the photography section, which I realise now speak volumes about my attitude towards good photography – it has nothing to do with the quality of the camera. Sadly, with each passing phonecam upgrade, as the number of features on my phone goes up, I think my enthusiasm for the results has gone down. There’s no escaping the fact that I need to find a new way to be inspired by phonecam possibilities in 2007.
Photos
A few final entries about where we’ve been, before we work out where we’re going. Here’s a summary of some of the entries perhaps worth a revisit from the old URL, loosely gathered into a few different categories.
First up…
Architecture and Design
Message from BLDGBLOG for my students to think about over the Christmas break:
…some of today’s most imaginative artistic, technological, and even literary work is being produced in architectural studios. Whether you like their projects or not, in other words, architecture students are out-thinking, out-structuring, and out-performing novelists, hands down.
It is now architecture that lets us rethink the world anew.
You’d better be on form when we start back in January!
Found by pressing the ‘related feeds’ button in bloglines.com to get a list of blogs similar to my own:
Architecture Sketches quoting Michael Maltzman:
“I can’t say that I design in one way or another it is a lot more back and forwards… It is like casting a broad net and seeing what comes up… Some drawings, like plan sketches, are a little more accurate…I prefer the fast and fluid drawings…the best drawings are almost like a field where patterns begin to inter merge in the sketches…the ones that say ‘OK here is the building’ are the least interesting for me…”
(my emphasis)
Found via Adam’s del.icio.us links – Aggregät 4/5/6
You have arrived at a site that has no qualms about the messy connections between spatial practice, cultural criticism, technology studies, art history, architecture, and other realms. Yet this location was conceived under the sign of big “A” architecture. It is maintained by an architecture historian who has difficulty staying within the circumscribed realms of history and theory. Although a visitor will encounter detours and conurbations that may deviate away from issues about the built environment, it must be noted that this site embraces the totality that architecture represents.
Added straight into the ever-growing bloglines list.
Found via Hana’s RSS list:
At last I can reveal one of my most exciting innovations. This is a plan for my new self sustaining system for one man that will allow me to travel around the surface without requiring anything from it.
The hat multi tasks by catching rainwater that goes into my water holding rucksack, where it is purified, capturing solar energy from the sun to light my torch and growing vegetables for me to eat on my travels. It also has a refelective surface so that it pushes the global warmup dangers away from me and back to where they came from.
Sadly, the return favour never materialised and my seemingly reasonable request for a license upgrade has been turned down. I’ll leave the post in place because I still stand by it as a decent piece of software, but there’s no hiding the fact that I’m bitterly disappointed in Graphisoft.
Thursday hyperlinked:
Listened to radioopensource.org podcast called Photography 2.0 – disappointingly but predictably flickr-centric – would have appreciated some recognition of the work that’s been done over the years by moblog.co.uk (even back in the day when flickr was still spelt with an e) to further the discussion about citizen journalism – especially as I flagged it in the comments and they discussed the impact of the London bombings – some great arguments however from Fred Ritchin about quality over quantity and the predominance of the self in the million images a day being uploaded to flickr – attended Housing Forum conference – heard Regional Director talk about how we need to deliver 30% more housing with only 15% more cash – if we move any faster I’m seriously worried about quality being stuffed by quantity – look closely if you buy a new house in the UK over the next few years – also heard Left Bank Two by Wayne Hill which took us all back to Take Hart – impossible to remember Tony without Morph – arrived back at my desk to find a mailshot in my inbox from the London Architecture Diary pointing me to a furniture company called Morph – they sell recycled and restored furniture – site chokes in firefox though – find a link in Alfie’s blog in my blogline subscriptions to the latest moblog.co.uk collaboration – live photos from the invasion of Didcot power station by Greenpeace – still delivering citizen journalism.
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