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Virginia Folk Housing, an update

Jane Griswold Radocchia

84 in Glassie's book.* The geometric diagrams I drew in May 2014,** were accurate but much too complex for these houses. More importantly they didn't begin as a carpenter would: with the size of the foundation and the floor plan. In the diagrams below: 1) B-C is the radius of the circle. This is Fig.

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A Lancaster Clock Case: its geometric design

Jane Griswold Radocchia

The Dietrick American Foundation published an article about a Lancaster clock case, researched and written by Christopher Storb, in July 2022.* The Foundation wrote that it "intended [such articles] as a type of crowd sourcing, where responses and information shared by readers can inform research." He knew I would be interested.

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Serlio's Lines

Jane Griswold Radocchia

We check that a foundation, a frame is true with matching diagonal lines. Here is his diagram shown above, rotated and then all 4 diagrams overlaid to make one 'star'. Here is his diagram shown above, rotated and then all 4 diagrams overlaid to make one 'star'. What results from them? equal parts.

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European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) by noa* network of architecture

aasarchitecture

To reach it, one ascends a one-of-a-kind elevator, a proper tower of books, picked up as needed by an automated system. Through this astonishing landscape of moving books, the highest point of the BEIC is reached. Accessibility diagram. Sustainability diagram. Image © noa* network of architecture. Ground Floor Plan.

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Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." Joy and Fear is not the first book by Theo Deutinger published by Lars Müller. Alas, I'll have to wait until February to do that.

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Norman Foster Institute Madrid

e-architect

The inaugural course On Sustainable Cities will be a 36-week programme in three stages — Foundations, Transformations and Interventions —with time divided between classrooms, cities and studios. . • For instance, leadership, advocacy, communication, presentation, diagramming, mapping, and the understanding and interpretation of data.

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3 living buildings made by a living practice

BD+C

Diagrams, hand-drawn sketches, physical models (many!), Climate data and socio/cultural research form not only the foundations for our conceptual proposals, but are employed throughout all phases of the design work. This goal is possible, and our new book Challenge and Change presents a roadmap.