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Technological Innovations in Architecture - Help me build my list?

Rebecca Lewis

I am looking to create a comprehensive list of technological innovations in the field of architecture but I want to make sure I am not missing anything. Any new ideas? So far, my list is as follows:

3D Modeling/Milling
Autocad
Rhino
Viz
Laser Cutting
Maya
Adobe Photoshop + creative suite
Sketchup

Any help is much appreciated! Thank you!

 
Mar 10, 09 2:39 pm
holz.box

building integrated wind turbine

Mar 10, 09 3:28 pm  · 
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holz.box

and software in itself is not really an architecture innovation

Mar 10, 09 3:36 pm  · 
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cowgill

Stereotomy

Mar 10, 09 4:02 pm  · 
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drums please, Fab?

simpson strong-wall

Mar 10, 09 4:27 pm  · 
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cowgill

vault
arch
modular building units (bricks, etc...)
glass

Mar 10, 09 4:32 pm  · 
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ihearthepavilion

escalator
elevator
Steel
Mechanical HVAC

Mar 10, 09 4:43 pm  · 
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blah

balloon frame
chicago window
reinforced concrete

Mar 10, 09 5:02 pm  · 
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randomized

indoor plumbing

Mar 10, 09 5:12 pm  · 
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citizen

t-square
parallel rule
compass
pencil

electricity
sewarage

lintel
beam
concrete
reinforcing steel
ashlar masonry
dimensional lumber
wire nails

Mar 10, 09 6:10 pm  · 
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bravo_on_trace

good responses - technical innovations are material, constructional, and, yes, digital.

so then, before your list gets so huge that this post isn't helpful at all, would you care to narrow it to a time frame?

Mar 10, 09 6:24 pm  · 
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vado retro

Paperless drywall! i saw it on a t.v. commercial!!

Mar 10, 09 6:38 pm  · 
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vado retro

o.s.b.!!!

Mar 10, 09 6:38 pm  · 
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vado retro

nail guns!!!

Mar 10, 09 6:39 pm  · 
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vado retro

galvanization!

Mar 10, 09 6:40 pm  · 
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vado retro

really big trucks and crains!!!

Mar 10, 09 6:41 pm  · 
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Rebecca Lewis

Can we terminate this conversation on Friday?

Mar 10, 09 6:49 pm  · 
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vado retro

glu lam beams!

Mar 10, 09 6:52 pm  · 
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ihearthepavilion

thermal glazing

Mar 10, 09 7:15 pm  · 
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Emilio

REG: We're giving Pilate two days to dismantle the entire apparatus of the Roman Imperialist State, and if he doesn't agree immediately, we execute her...
They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers...
And what have they ever given us in return?!
XERXES: The aqueduct?
REG: What?
XERXES: The aqueduct.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And the sanitation.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
MATTHIAS: And the roads.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--
COMMANDO: Irrigation.
XERXES: Medicine.
COMMANDO #2: Education.
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1: And the wine.
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
COMMANDO: Public baths.
LORETTA: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Mar 10, 09 7:21 pm  · 
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bravo_on_trace

what is that from?

Mar 10, 09 7:33 pm  · 
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Emilio

life of brian

Mar 10, 09 7:39 pm  · 
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bravo_on_trace

wow! that's brilliant.... i haven't seen that in a long time. thanks.

Mar 10, 09 7:40 pm  · 
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spark

electric erasers
mylar
plastic lead
pencil sharpeners
spi-rolls
borco
air conditioning

Mar 10, 09 9:49 pm  · 
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liberty bell


Thanks, Brunelleschi!

Mar 10, 09 9:58 pm  · 
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vado retro

pvc drain tiles!

Mar 10, 09 10:02 pm  · 
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vado retro

hardiplank siding!

Mar 10, 09 10:02 pm  · 
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liberty bell

Q. How many architects does it take to daylight a project?

A. Just one, but you have to toss the architect out the window.

Mar 10, 09 10:15 pm  · 
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le bossman

i've got a revision to that lb.

A. Just one to rig up the dynamite.

Mar 10, 09 10:21 pm  · 
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1d2d3d4d

caulk

Mar 10, 09 11:49 pm  · 
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binary

sham-wow

gesso

chipboard

scarfs and unique eye glasses

Mar 11, 09 12:15 am  · 
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drums please, Fab?

man-hole covers

Mar 11, 09 1:12 am  · 
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strlt_typ
strlt_typ
D7mY

you
people
and the mind that connects both

Mar 11, 09 3:22 am  · 
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aseid

not the elevator, the safety brake

Mar 11, 09 1:47 pm  · 
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rethinkit

BIM

Mar 11, 09 2:38 pm  · 
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Antisthenes

SABS

Mar 11, 09 4:19 pm  · 
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