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Building for the Pacific Northwest

SW Oregon Architect

It’s most definitely because of the people who comprise its membership. If you charted the AEC industry as a Venn diagram, CSI would be located precisely where the intersection of all the sets occurs. It’s because it remains the most influential voice across the entire spectrum of construction communications.

Building 193
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Schematic Design – Using an Occupant-Centered Design Approach

MLL Atelier

INTRODUCTION: THE DEFINITION. That is why an occupant-centered design approach that gets you to think beyond programmatic diagrams is key. These layers include aspects like materiality, nature, contextual surroundings, authenticity, aesthetics, and meaning.

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Share Your Work With the World | Upload Your Projects to Architizer

Architizer

From planned and completed projects to unrealized concepts and under-construction works, Architizer forms the definitive directory of world class architecture, worldwide. Additionally, a stellar sketch, drawing, rendering or diagram, as well as a detailed project description, can make a project stand out.

Project 109
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Schematic Design – This isn’t “Architecture”

Life of an Architect

There was definitely a hammock being used … and not just by me. As we are talking, I would ask questions and draw diagrams right in front of the clients to make sure we were on the same page. As I was drawing, I kept saying “This isn’t architecture … this is a diagram. Your house will not look like this.”

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A house fit for cats… and humans

Habitus Living

There were a lot of overlapping function mud-map diagrams in the making of this floor plan!” In addition, warm timber, terrazzo and terracotta with unfinished elements like brass fittings with definitive patinas round out the material palette. laughs Maireade.

Housing 98
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The Best Design Books for Everyone on Your Gift List

Dwell

The editors of the book note that while sculpture resists definition, it "initiates encounters in space." The Book of Colour Concepts From the 17th century to the advent of the digital age, color theories have been illustrated with opulent wheels, polychrome charts, and meticulous diagrams.

Design 98
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10 Drawings That Changed Architecture

Architizer

At the same time, plans, sections and diagrams outline spaces and indicate the movements of the different protagonists intruding into this architectural “stage set.” Architectural Geomagnetic Flying Machines was one of many drawings that represent a body of work exploring new definitions for architecture.