Design is a difficult thing to learn – sometimes it seems like people either have the skill or they don’t. But that is not true. There are a lot of things to teach about design as an effort of problem-solving. If you give kids a problem to solve, like to build a structure with 30 […]
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A Bit o’History of Architecture
Back in Ancient Rome, in the First Century B.C.E., an architect named Vitruvius wrote a series of ten books on architecture titled “De Architectura”. These books were hand written and illustrated and we are sure they were absolutley GORGEOUS, but alas, not one copy of them survived. In the 15th century, some monks in Italy […]
READ About Making Great PLACES
One of our favorite people in the world of architecture writing and thinking is a man named Christopher Alexander. I did not know much about him but I did find this info about his being a professor and an architect of a whole BUNCH of buildings LINK
How Convenient! EVERYTHING you need to know to be an architect
So I guess if you want to be an architect, this man, Doug, who is an architect, is ready to have you join him in the fun of design and the built environment. He has videos about how architects work, why someone would choose to be an architect and even how to make neato architectural […]
Something to think about: URBICIDE
Sometimes we make up a word. Like “Kapow” when Batman hits the Riddler in the stomach, or “muckity muck” that material that we step into – you know – the “glooppy glop” that is at the edge of the curb after a sudden huge rainstorm. Back in 1968, a very famous American architecture historian and […]