just wanted to make a home for cool diagrams, analytical drawings, graphic indexices, and information maps - and one of the favorite topics of BLDGBLOG, Pruned, visualcomplexity (the best resource on the web) & others. So let us discuss Tufte, Colin Rowe, Doug Graf, Rem, Tschumi, and Stan Alan who raised the diagram to new
heights.
Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City
this is one of the comments on amazon.com
"This book contains some of the more useful thoughts published on diagrams to date. Although many architects frequently refer to diagrams as a methodology, Stan Allen has made them one of the focal points of his work. This book and his lectures often excite controversy over the way in which architects use diagrams. Diagrams have a kind of potential energy which can be interpreted in a number of ways to generate a piece of architecture. The book Points + Lines introduces ideas with which every student should be familiar and which each architect should address. Stan Allen makes a refreshingly clear delivery of his ideas in a contemporary architecture culture of overcomplication, vacant formalism, and thoughtless commercial production. We can only hope that the author's relatively young age will privelege us with the production of more written work. "
A short description about a course at the KSA called "Diagrammatic" and an essay about the misinterpretation of datascapes in architectural discourse entitled "It's probably not a datascape." Posted here:
it's that time of the academic quarter when I'm revisiting my project instructions for the next term and so worth dragging this thread out of the attic.
drums please, Fab?
Dec 16, 11 6:56 pm
no one wants to claim the lower half of flo-rida?
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 16, 11 7:50 pm
that's new cuba.
liberty bell
Dec 20, 20 8:02 am
Page one of this thread refers to Michael Sorkin, who sadly died due to Covid in spring. Here is a graph charting excess deaths this year compared to the previous five years.
liberty bell
Dec 20, 20 8:03 am
Here:
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 20, 20 9:17 am
There was this idea that other deaths were seeing a marked decline, or those deaths were being reclassified as covid. The information is coming out to put that nonsense to rest, finally.
midlander
Dec 20, 20 9:38 pm
if only proving people wrong with factual information was sufficient to change minds...
just wanted to make a home for cool diagrams, analytical drawings, graphic indexices, and information maps - and one of the favorite topics of BLDGBLOG, Pruned, visualcomplexity (the best resource on the web) & others. So let us discuss Tufte, Colin Rowe, Doug Graf, Rem, Tschumi, and Stan Alan who raised the diagram to new
heights.
Previously on archinect:
Diagrams 1, 2, & 3.
fancy graphics: 1, & 2
Mapping 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5
cinematic maps
books:
Personal Geographies,
Precedents in Architecture, 3rd Ed, Mather/da Cunha's Mississippi Floods,
Cosgrove's mapping, mental maps
Some of my favorite diagrams are indexing is a way of revealing complex or latent relationships and phenomena
to kick it off - the most famous diagram ever:
now for some fun:
[url=http://www.gpsdrawing.com/]fun with gps[/img]
landscape urbanism
This is pretty cool: pulse of the nation: US mood inferred from twitter.
yes, really cool map. It's been making the twitter rounds all mourning :)
does some nice information graphics work that is analytical and not just representational:
, though I swear I hear the polar ice caps melting as I watch.
*bump*
writing a book review that made me think of this thread.
Don't try building a green house in Indiana!
bahhahaah.
This is a useful thread.
Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City
this is one of the comments on amazon.com
"This book contains some of the more useful thoughts published on diagrams to date. Although many architects frequently refer to diagrams as a methodology, Stan Allen has made them one of the focal points of his work. This book and his lectures often excite controversy over the way in which architects use diagrams. Diagrams have a kind of potential energy which can be interpreted in a number of ways to generate a piece of architecture. The book Points + Lines introduces ideas with which every student should be familiar and which each architect should address. Stan Allen makes a refreshingly clear delivery of his ideas in a contemporary architecture culture of overcomplication, vacant formalism, and thoughtless commercial production. We can only hope that the author's relatively young age will privelege us with the production of more written work. "
Jorinde Voigt
via pruned
Those are beautiful, barry.
Also, tagalong, I don't know how I missed your flow chart but it's awesome!
funny i thought this was a new thread and immediately thought of the Minard's diagram of Napoleon's advance and retreat from Moscow. and there it was.
2nd most famous 'map' - John Snow's cholera epidemic map
*bump*
my students are about to begin a systems mapping project.
image: RED PLANET: HELEN REYNOLDS, see also: www.helenreynolds.co.nz/
A short description about a course at the KSA called "Diagrammatic" and an essay about the misinterpretation of datascapes in architectural discourse entitled "It's probably not a datascape." Posted here:
http://archinect.com/blog/article/21453950/015-it-s-probably-not-a-datascape
-bump-
it's that time of the academic quarter when I'm revisiting my project instructions for the next term and so worth dragging this thread out of the attic.
no one wants to claim the lower half of flo-rida?
that's new cuba.
Page one of this thread refers to Michael Sorkin, who sadly died due to Covid in spring. Here is a graph charting excess deaths this year compared to the previous five years.
Here:
There was this idea that other deaths were seeing a marked decline, or those deaths were being reclassified as covid. The information is coming out to put that nonsense to rest, finally.
if only proving people wrong with factual information was sufficient to change minds...