Lucky lucky Isamu Noguchi somehow managed to have many of his models cast in BRONZE.
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Tired of the same old boring pancake contour models?
The Rhino Tutorial for UVa’s Grad Graphics class is a great introduction to the program, and an excellent resource for landform modeling strategies. Download it here.
Thanks to Robin Dripps, Lucia Phinney, Gennifer Munoz, Mary Becica, and Dave Malda for writing the book!
Some images of our River/Road Studio model:
with L. Hackney.
I’ve been a big fan of Bernard Khoury for a while now, and I think that two of his early works — Centrale and B018 — would make great precedent studies for ARCH 202’s Landmark project.
The restaurant Centrale is set into the shell of an earlier building. Khoury surrounded the original building in steel mesh, allowing its decay to become part of the spectacle of the project.
B018 is an underground nightclub in a decomissioned Beirut bunker.
Hey ARCH 202, with all the mapping you’ve been doing lately, this competition might be right up your alley.
via bldgblog, check out The Atomized Library, a studio project from Duncan Young and Brett Walters at CCA that distributes component parts of a city library throughout the public realm.
Maps.google.com, I love you as much as the next architecture student does, but you’re not exactly easy on the eyes. Short of tracing your own maps in Illustrator (highly recommended, btw), the next best thing is to find some prettier base maps, stat. Two of my favorite resources are digital Sanborn Maps and the USGS Store.
Sanborn maps were drawn up to help set fire insurance rates, and are chock full of information about materiality and land use patterns. With map editions going back as far as 1867, Sanborns are a great resource for historical research.
USGS maps cover the entire United States, and are well-suited for large-scale mapping projects that deal with topography, parks, and roads.
Artist Richard Long lets his walks imprint themselves on the landscape, creating a full-scale map of his travels.
TED Talks are some of my favorite things to listen to while Rhino-ing away an afternoon. Here are a few talks that push operational diagrams to a whole new level…
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And one more talk on why mapping matters:
Imagined Futures 