architects in birmingham

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, …

urban embroidery

Note to self: Must find a way to involve these guys in my next community consultation project… This week we’ve been running a 5 day workshop with a class of 30 nine year olds in Year 4 at the Jenny Hammond Primary School with our friend and collaborator Loren Chasse. The workshop focused on ‘everyday …

Linux links

Harvesting links while listening to the LUG Radio coverage of GUADEC: F-Spot: a full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop Jackfield: Apple’s Dashboard for the Linux Gnome desktop Elisa: a project to create an opensource media center solution for GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems. Jokosher: a multi-track non-linear audio editor with a prime …

call-and-response

So I think one reason why [I love being an architect] – leaving aside other obvious reasons[*] – is to do with this see-saw balancing act; when the fragile beauty of [my ideas] can be denied so effortlessly by the combination of chance, improvisation, circumstance and irrational passion. It’s the call-and-response tension between these forces …

all of the above

Blogging is the topic of this week’s Architest in Building Design magazine: 4) According to www.doyouwantcoffee.blogspot.com, why do architects need blogs? A Their jobs are boring B They need biased information C They have an egotistical need to talk about themselves D They don’t Take the full test at bdonline.co.uk (requires registration)

‘nother name

To jog your memory further, Adam has reminded me that this also used to be called ‘Webstalker’.

iod4

Does anybody know if iod4, or a similar piece of software, is still going anywhere? The original never made it past Windows ’95: I/O/D 4 (image from an old experiment)

watch this space

Received in this morning’s post: Dear Mr Annable, We are really glad you were able to attend the MADA Onsite Exhibition, Birmingham last year and hope that you enjoyed it. As sponsors, we were really pleased to be involved with such interesting and international design. We intend to continue with a similar idea, possibly with …

Stephen Heppell

3 e-mails just tumbled into my inbox from my friend and fellow architect Rob Hopkins. He has some links to share: rob, i spent a day with stephen heppell yesterday at the RIBA. www.heppell.net/ seriously inspiring guy to work with (when you have the cash to pay for him!) rob And then, should have mentioned, …

e-clectic

I was thinking, during my journey along the motorway this morning, about how I should best convey the news to new readers that this isn’t purely an architecture blog. Perhaps 50% is Architecture, another 20% is architecture and the remaining 30% is more general notes to self which may (or, more usually, may not) be …