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Breaking Down Architectural Techniques With USC School of Architecture’s Foundational Graduate Studio

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This foundational studio focused on giving students with no previous architecture backgrounds an opportunity to gain "experience to foundational design concepts, disciplinary knowledge, and techniques for thinking about and developing fundamental architectural principles."

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Artificial Intelligence as an Ally in Architectural Decarbonization: From Conception to Building Implementation

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Nowadays, however, sustainability increasingly encompasses different strategies that also involve acknowledging vernacular techniques and local materials as crucial for creating sustainable and carbon-neutral buildings.

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A 12th-century Scottish monk may have invented modern architectural drawing techniques, new research claims

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Kinsella says: “This is the earliest evidence we have of a complete visual description of a building including several plans, elevations and sections, but they appear in this strange theological work instead of coming out of building sites.

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Open Design Language in Open-Kitchen Restaurants

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The low-skilled cooking techniques and apparatus employed at branded fast-food restaurants, for example, are presented in full visibility to waiting customers. By installing the same open-kitchen concept, professional kitchens that use talented chefs and high-quality ingredients are able to prove it. Read more »

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A-Poc Able Issey Miyake crafts pleated lighting for Milan design week

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APOC stands for A Piece of Cloth and refers to a computer-programmed manufacturing technique introduced by the late designer Issey Miyake in the 1990s, in which garments are cut out of a single tubular piece of fabric. Each element is detachable and can be laid flat and stored when not in use.

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From Sketch to Painting: A Digital Art Gallery To Inspire Everyday Architectural Work

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Despite the utilization of technical knowledge, architecture, and interior design also incorporate artistic concepts into their processes. In this sense, digitalization has also permeated the art world, conceiving initiatives like SINGULART , which challenges the traditional concept of art galleries by existing in a digital format.

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Apartments in Brazil: Interiors with Reused and Recovered Materials

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Image Lauro Rocha From the field of architecture and construction, the concept of material reuse is closely tied to circular economy and the reduction of carbon footprints , paving the way toward a more sustainable and responsible future. Paraso Apartment / RUNA + Elky Santos. Read more

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