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Studio Lessons 101: Diagrams

Life of an Architect

After a week full of various studio reviews, I realized how essential diagrams are to the presentation of one’s architectural ideas. While they may not hold a large place within the practice of architecture, they are certainly critical to success in the process of architectural education.

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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. He uses the geometry in the pediment of a Menagery, in his book, On Architecture *. I began my diagram here on the lower edge of the pediment's frame.

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Do I Have to Be an Artist to Be an Architect?

The Student Architect

So many people feel the same as you do, and many of them let those thoughts get in the way of pursuing their dream to study architecture. Let's make one thing clear—architecture school isn't art school. Of course, it does, but there's so much more to architecture than drawing a pretty picture. Try collaging!

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Crescent School of Architecture | architectureRED

ArchiDiaries

With open spaces present throughout the building that offer possibilities for gathering, socialising and other activities, the Crescent School of Architecture is an example for institutional architecture that adapts over time, where users begin to take charge and re-configure spaces that adapt to changing needs and demands.

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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

These three monographs don't necessarily follow the Corbusian model ( Richard Neutra and James Stirling did that, strictly so, decades ago), but they do build upon it in ways that led me to think they should be commended and emulated — in bits and pieces, at the very least — by other architects.

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Do you really want to be an architect?

Life of an Architect

Do you really want to be an architect? Being an architect is rewarding in ways that I don’t think could be easily replicated in a different field of work. I would say I get that question a lot but it’s really phrased “Do I really want to be an architect?” – SIDEBAR – “ What’s a tag?

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

architect, verb: The New Language of Building by Rienier de Graaf, published by Verso. US release date: February 28, 2023 (Buy via Amazon or Bookshop ) In my review of this book last month at World-Architects , I described the latest by OMA partner Rienier de Graaf as "a book of lists."