So, an author named Joshua Foer recently wrote a book, Moonwalking with Einstein, about remembering. Not just remembering to bring your lunch to school, but remembering the order of ten (10!) decks of cards that are shuffled together – REALLY REMEMBERING. As he started to write about remembering, he studied the skills of HOW to […]
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Idiots Guide to Skyscrapers
Well, it is not exactly a guide, but a book that was designed by a really cool woman, Candy Chang who does all sorts of projects in the built environment to get us all thinking. I think that this book that she wrote, The Idiotic Building, points out that people who say that new ideas are […]
Sir, is that Real? A Surreal Museum in Florida
Yep, whoda thunk? Right down in warm, palm tree filled Florida, a very expensive art museum recently opened to celebrate the arts of Mr. Salvador Dali, a famous artist from the 1900s, known mostly for his SURREAL art. His art relates to architecture in many ways – including his fascination with mathematics and the Golden […]
Build Your Own- Like Abe Lincoln Did!
Everyone around here in Illinois knows the stories of how Abraham Lincoln built his own log cabin home, and we are doggone proud of his hard work and honest labors. Well, with a pair of scissors,some heavyweight paper and a dash of glue, you can build some honest Illinois buildings yourself. Once built, put them […]
Easy as Pie! A Six-Step Process
If you think about a project, whether it is a project to bake a pie or build a building, any process can be broken down to a series of steps. Let’s see, to make a pie you have to take out your pie pan, preheat your oven, mix the dough for the crust. Roll out […]
Infinite Curves
When we looked up the meaning of the word “Asymptote” we found the following meaning at the Merriam Webster Site: : asymptote: a straight line associated with a curve such that as a point moves along an infinite branch of the curve the distance from the point to the line approaches zero and the slope […]
Read a Book
Tear your kid away from the digital world and get a book! Here is a great list of books about architecture that we recommend.
Don’t drink and Draw!
Just kidding, you can drink as much lemonade or water that you want when you draw. But let’s face it, anyone who drinks this much wine to build a building out of corks, probably is overdoing it. Hey, is that the President of the United States in that cork building? Maybe the cork building is […]
Listen Up and Sketchup!
And here is a detail. We received an email about a girl who volunteered her expertise in Google Sketchup to make these drawings of a community garden in Chicago. What a great way to get some experience, help your neighbors and learn a useful design skill. So listen up and sketchup! We will post other […]
Architecture on Film
This fall there is a series of architecture-related movies available in Evanston, near Chicago. Films about Louis Sullivan (one of our heroes), Mies Van Der Rohe, and some fictional stories about architects are in the line-up. Bring your own popcorn. Sorry, these movies are over now and the listing is no longer available.