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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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Mapping Your Firm’s Strategy: Visual Business Frameworks for Architects and Designers

Architizer

There are endless books and online resources on various approaches to strategic planning. Visual business models can be a powerful tool for creative professionals, like architects, who often prefer to communicate through drawings and diagrams. It will be easier to start executing against your vision once you have a clearer foundation.

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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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Saltbox Geometry

Jane Griswold Radocchia

My diagrams here are for a simple generic New England saltbox. He probably began with the 5th diagram. The diagram is to scale; it is 16 ft. Sometimes the dimensions for the framing began at the foundation. His first diagram is entitled "Typical framing details.". (see Here is a diagram for the Rule of Thirds.

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IE University Spain spotlights 10 architecture and design projects

Deezen

This degree from IE School of Architecture and Design uses a unique combination of a solid foundation in design, a demanding project-based methodology and a focus on real-life challenges. El Alma Paisa, a printed book that tells their story, navigates their idiosyncrasies and misunderstandings. What we see is a world unseen by others.

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