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FUNDAMENTALS OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION (uk)

As part of the community planning studio, students are creating “explainers” in a format of their voice, whether an infographic, an Instagram account, a zine, or a video. Here are some examples of 3 min (more or less) videos.

Planning in Phoenix City of Phoenix (2017)

The Impact of Zoning Perkins+Will architecture firm (2014)

As part of the community planning studio, students are creating “explainers” in a format of their voice, whether an infographic, an Instagram account, a zine, or a video. Here are some examples of 3 min (more or less) videos.

Planning in Phoenix City of Phoenix (2017)

The Impact of Zoning Perkins+Will architecture firm (2014)

Here are six of my favorite bookstore designs:

Selexyz Dominicanen Maastricht Merkx + Girod

Cultura Bookstore Diana Radomysler + Luciana Antunes + Marcio Tanaka + Mariana Ruzante + Studio MK27 - Marcio Kogan

Hangzhou Zhongshuge Bookstore Li Xiang

The City Of The Books And The Images Alejandro Sánchez García - Taller 6A

Rong Bao Zhai Coffee Bookstore ARCHSTUDIO

The Arles Amphitheatre is a Roman amphitheater located in the southern French town of Arles. Built in 90 AD, it is 446 feet (136 m) long and 358 feet (109 m) wide, has 120 arches, and could once seat more than 20,000 spectators. It was originally used to showcase chariot races and hand-to-hand combat competitions, and is still used today for bullfights, plays and concerts.

Instagram: https://bit.ly/2IjhXZU

43°40'40.0"N, 4°37'52.0"E

‪Nearly 15 years in the making, I’m thrilled to share the cover and publishing date for #stagingurbanlandscapes with @Birkhauser. The publication examines the activation of public space with events and installations, asserting the designer’s role in creating flexibility and change‬.

The book features 27 case studies with original drawings and diagrams of spaces on multiple continents, at various scales and within different contexts.

Foreword by Charles Waldheim

Discursive essays from: Gina Ford chris reed Sergio Lopez-Pineiro Chris Wangro Alex Wall

Insight into the creative process from: Adriaan Geuze West 8 urban design & landscape architecture Ken Trew Argent Renée Daoust Daoust Lestage Inc Richard Kennedy James Corner Field Operations Philip Barash Sasaki Kirsten Bauer ASPECT Studios

Afterword by James Corner Field Operations

Fictional Architecture

As special effects budgets continue to grow, the architectural wonders that TV, film and video game producers create seem to get more and more impressive.

From the castles of Westeros to the imaginative, colorful designs of Studio Ghibli, they compiled some of the most iconic and interesting architectural feats that they feel best represent six of their favorite fictional universes. In order to capture the finer details and the feel of each building, they’ve illustrated each one with a pen and paper – and they are pretty happy with the results!

School layout optimized for efficiency.

Basically, the descriptions we have of sites in old ass texts can be a nightmare to match up to modern day locations. Some, like Chester and London, are easy. We kept building on them. It’s why there’s an amphitheatre in the middle of Chester and the Roman Wall.

But in other parts of the country its a heck of a lot harder to locate and identify places.

There’s this show called Time Team (or sth like that, it’s been a long long time) and they basically went around the UK digging up ancient sites that they tried to find through radar and aerial imagery etc etc. That requires a fair amount of planning and technology (aka the bane of field budgets everywhere). And even with those and all the nice little people digging away and the photographs and radar imagery, they still had issues figuring out the direction a building went in, which way the wall ran, if this was part of a house or not and so on.

The heatwave and drought about to happen if it doesn’t frickin rain, is useful in that it allows us to see these sites without loads of planning and resources as they are today. We can identify places we’ve not been able to identify, locate sites we’ve wanted to locate for ages, because of the nifty little thing the dirt does when it gets hot and dry and like Satan’s breathing on everything.

And that means that those sites can be logged down, and the modern topography won’t be such a bitch to try and figure out for locations because that heatwave has saved a lot of time and effort!

Basically, don’t be surprised if in the next year or so, there are more reports and research papers about archaeological digsites in the UK from the Bronze Age or the Iron Age because this right here, this damned benighted hellish summer heat, will have been the cause of it all.

                                     The Mystical Splendor Of Rome

1. The Triumph of Saint Ignatius, Andrea Pozzo, Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome

2. Triumph of the Name of Jesus. Giovanni Gaulli; Gesù Rome

3. Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini , Pietro da Cortona, Rome

4. Divine Providence, Palazzo Barberini, Rome

5. Triumph of Saint Francis, Corrado Giaquinto  Santi Apostoli. Rome

6. Apotheosis of Saint Louis, Charles-Joseph Natoire, San Luigi dei Francesi

7. Ceiling of the Choir Chapel, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican

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