Format:Name of MaterialPhotos of Material at Human Vision ScalePhotos at 10x to 50x magnification (with a microscope of course) 1.01 Brick (cut side)[10x to 50x gif]1.02 Brick (clean side)[10x to 50x gif]1.03 Bluestone[10x - 50x]1.04 Bluestone (brownish patina) [10x to 50x gif]1.05 Carrara Marble... View full entry

Space Mountain in Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland. As any architect would I looked for the interesting. The surrounding area had this Futurism feel to it.  Space Mountain very much appears to have elements from Antonio Sant'Elia work (La Città Nuova, 1914)As we approached the roller coaster cars I... View full entry

So Antoni Gaudi designed the arches at Sagrada Familia by hanging chains?  Inverted Catenaries dude![1889 – Gaudí’s Hanging Chain Models ][link to photo source][link to photo source]dude, got it!y(x) = a + (1/b)cosh(b(x-c))Equation for the Shape of a Hanging Rope, Cable, or ChainScript used... View full entry

 Real architecture doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities and delivers us from limited ways in which we see and feel things.Why are you here?Why are you an architect?Why are you becoming an architect?Give me a break, it's 4:30am and I've drank enough whiskey to kill a horse and... View full entry

math is the cruelest for finding meaning.all of reality adding up to numbers,and all the numbers adding up to nothing meaningful.[Shannon–Hartley theorem/rendering of Parthenon]the proportions always made us architects feel good.the golden ratio and the fibonaccci sequence.meaningless symbols... View full entry

Space Mountain. The indoor roller coaster at Disney World's Magic Kingdom's Tommorrowland (Orlando, Florida, USA). That ride scared the crap out of me 30+ years ago and my younger brother at 4 years old, not sure how they let him on the ride, nearly squirmed himself out of his seat buckles back... View full entry

this entire post was inspired by - A City Is Not a Computer  and a wall in Bairro Alto, Lisbon, covered with circuit boards painted white - Daniel Gonçalves"Instead of more gratuitous parametric modeling, we need to think about urban epistemologies that embrace memory and history; that recognize... View full entry

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Your mom lives in a Rhombus dude?No bruh, she bought a Costa Surface to avoid dad. Minimal surface trick.but, she was also looking at the Double Enneper...with a swimming pool topside! ...and she checked out the Array of Suites at Karcher JE Saddle Towers, Los Angeles, CaliforniaDude, what about... View full entry

What if a city was a jigsaw puzzle or labyrinth dude?Underworld - Mmm Skyscraper I Love You  Math used in the this adventure (3ds Max scripts and some photoshop):Labyrinth MakerPuzzle View full entry

Faux (adjective) – made in imitation, artificial.  Not genuine, fake or false.Modern (noun) – a person who advocates or practices a departure from traditional styles or values.Since Parametric Post-Modernism, never caught on, surprisingly! going to take a stab at a word/phrase with homage to... View full entry

This ought to be your mug shot if you designed this place. This morning I drove through portions of Alys Beach still in construction  and was going to point out the amount of masonry work in progress and note why it was a good idea…well, Andres Duany already explained this fact as a feature of... View full entry

[fig. 01]The New BrutalismAlison and Peter SmitshonIf Academicism can be defined as yesterday's answers to today's problems, then obviously the objectives and aesthetic techniques of a real architecture (or a real art) must be in constant change.  In the immediate postwar period to set against... View full entry

Chase the meaningless long enough to make it meaningful.Why carve a stone at its veins? Why scan the stone to 3D for the computer? Why do a fly-thru ending with the Farnsworth house perched on a ridge of the cut stone?Cut from what appears to be a piece of a blue Quartztile named Azul Macaubas. ... View full entry

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