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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. Vignola's book on architecture was translated, of course. 1600, attributed to Vignola, comes from a book published in Spain.

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Architectural Sketches | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Architects / Architectural Sketches Architectural Sketches Bob Borson — September 26, 2013 — 22 Comments Architects sketch as part of the process when doing their job … at least I do. This is a sketch from project that I am currently working on – the KHouse Modern.

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

EntreArchitect

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Covey – This is a universally loved book by people in every field. It is no surprise why.

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3 living buildings made by a living practice

BD+C

Diagrams, hand-drawn sketches, physical models (many!), As featured in this book, this process has led to an exciting series of revelations about the potential of environmental architecture—an architecture that is simultaneously pragmatic and unique in both space and form that produces genuine inventions.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. A book on Le Corbusier is a monograph.

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"'Ideadiversity' may be at an all-time low"

Deezen

In his book Filterworld , Kyle Chayka calls these fast moving trends that are dictated by algorithms "cultural flattening". Spatial thinking is focused on comparison, like maps, diagrams, sketches and visual arrangements. Serial thinking is linear and relies on cause-and-effect chains like stories, arguments and logic.

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SUNNY HAMPSHIRE

Shades of Grey

The doomsday book comes to mind. Shopping lists, back napkin sketches. Diagrams upon diagrams. Of course it overlaps into Berkshire, a tiny bit of Surrey. The modern counties are not so relevant. This is deeper history reaching back to Saxon times at least. That was an epic piece of research. No folders and subfolders.

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