A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The fact I included a case study chapter in Buildings in Print , as mentioned above, points to my appreciation of this sub-genre of architecture books but also to the role they have played in teaching architecture students, spreading knowledge around important works, and promoting architects and architecture within and beyond the profession.

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Housing Restoration Deconstruction Diagram 102

Shades of Grey

JUNE 1, 2024

Mapping the city and abstracting into diagrams was a multi-dimensional exercise. I exported a DWFX study file of a portion of the framing and facade system that was part of my presentation and has been shared with a few architecture students since then. It's a shield motif. Not amenable to native Revit modelling.

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Diagram Visualization Technology Technology 52

Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% The practice of architecture is more than sketching on trace paper, parti diagrams, deciding what pens to draw with, groupies, and last-minute trips to Vegas. Why Should You Read This? Why Should You Read This? Why Should You Read This?

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Architect Architecture School Firms Architecture Student 76

Deezen

JULY 30, 2023

Massing studies, circulation diagrams, and programmatic organisational strategies were fed into the DL tools. "Daniel Lasso, Jerry Velasquez, and Matthew Smithmullally embraced this approach to creative AI in their design of a hotel located adjacent to the High Line in New York City.

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Project Students Architecture Innovation 98

e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

Build the Pavilion as part of the International Festival of Architecture and City MEXTRÓPOLI, with the aim of becoming the benchmark, in each edition able to contribute to the festival themes for reflection and discussion on the architecture and the city. The groups may incorporate professionals or students from other disciplines.

Information 98

Information Developer Development Cities 98

Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

Cross-disciplinary Landscape and Architecture students Evie Boyce and Catherine Westhead use Animal Aided Design to support wild bees in Stockport. It is conducted developing and using a set of tools and apparatuses for inquiry from diagramming and mapping to model making, and from archival research to oral history.

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Project Architecture Students Landscape 98

Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Underdog Architecture Student What about the way to tear a straight piece off of a roll of trace? (I It’s got lots of ergonomic/spatial data illustrated with diagrams (eg how much space do you need to open a kitchen cabinet when kneeling). This should fit in a 9 x 14.5 envelope or similar legal-size file drawer.

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Architect Architecture Technique Deconstruction 107

EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice. This would have been my favorite section when I was an architecture student. Architecture and Disjunction by Bernard Tschumi – This is by far my most marked up, underlined, and starred architecture book. Theory + Design Process.

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Architect Sketching Firms Clients 52

Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If I ever saw something that an architecture student needed, this is it. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Landscape and Architecture $45 by Michael Sheridan (Author) and‎ Michael Holm (Editor) Fun Fact: The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is located just outside Copenhagen, Denmark and NOT in Louisiana. B O O K S ! ! !

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Architect Sketching Residential Housing 81

Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I’m a 20 year old architecture student from India and I do believe I’m going through an identity crisis, right in the midst of my submissions too! I would suggest a third question, to complete the Venn diagram: What does the world need? Something a master machine can’t make. Alan Manning Great! Thanks a lot!

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Architect Education Students Architecture 112

Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

If you were to draw a force diagram, you'd need more material in the middle, so naturally it's a win-win," she said. The spindle shape — fatter in the middle, thinner in the ends — is also useful. "If

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Structure Structural Engineering Students Technique 128

Deezen

JUNE 3, 2022

The project title called Inscribing the City refers to the unique nature of urban representation and presents students with examples of sequential drawings, diagramming, editing and cartography in order to show something specific about the built environment.

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Project Architecture Students Sustainability 119

The Architect's Guide

APRIL 8, 2021

Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design The debate surrounding hand drawing versus computer-generated imagery has become a hot topic. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. The Architecture of Community. By Leon Krier. Buy on Amazon.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 21, 2023

No wonder his website sells prints of his architectural imagery — and no wonder this monograph is saturated with the same, sure to woo architects and architecture students too young to remember the nineties. His projects, as rendered in sketches, drawings, models, perspectives, and collages, are just too beautiful.

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Firms Structure Nature Landscape 78