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 …
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… …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Disclaimer: Whilst the following post may result in a return favour for me from Graphisoft (see update), I’m more than happy to pass on the news that ArchiCAD is now available for free to students. Back in the days of my undergraduate education I bought a student license of version 5 (which cost about £150 …
Help! A few weeks ago I saw a link on somebody’s data shadow/stream/fog about a study on the way wealth is situated in urban environments. It refuted the well understood ‘wedge’ model and demonstrated a ‘doughnut’ form around cities in the US. Was it you who linked it up? I can’t remember. Help me out …
Flying over a past pavilion with Goggles.
I work at Axis Design Collective and we are architects in Birmingham. Ignore me, normal service will resume shortly. This post exists only to provide myself some Google juice. Alternatively, if you’re feeling extremely generous, find a way to use the phrase architects in Birmingham on your blog and link my other site. After all, …