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Jane Griswold Radocchia
MAY 3, 2024
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.
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph Monday.
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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
APRIL 21, 2023
Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children.
Life of an Architect
OCTOBER 11, 2020
The work you spent weeks or even months agonizing over and trying to skillfully articulate in the forms of diagrams, plans, perspectives, collages, etc. This is something that I think about every time I look at a portfolio … or even write one of my blog posts. I can promise you it won’t even be a fraction of what you think it will be.
Young Architect
JUNE 19, 2022
In this blog post, we’ll take a broad look at the study materials available for ALL the ARE 5.0 This blog post will focus on study materials about each exam. To make things easier, a table of contents is provided below to help you navigate this blog post. These 2 terms are referred to throughout this entire blog post series.
A Better Built Environment
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
It was rarely heard in architectural school or during design studio critiques. Discussions revolved around function, choreography, concept, diagrams, but rarely what the building looked like. when architecture reached modern times, the very word beauty became taboo. Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?
Young Architect
MAY 16, 2022
This blog post will break down and summarize all the parts of Amber Book. Michael teaches design studio, environmental building systems, materials & methods of construction, and architectural acoustics. It is social and collaborative, similar to how a design studio works in architecture school. I always tell people.
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