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Sketching the Housing Crisis

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, sketching outdoors. He calls urban sketching a public act, one of vulnerability and frustration balanced with unique opportunities for dialogue, discovery, and fulfillment. Observation and contemplation of the phenomena and nuances of a scene are critical skills honed specifically through field sketching.

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The Renaissance of the Sofa: Innovations, Atypical Shapes, and Anthropometry

ArchDaily

Standard, project sketches. Francesco Binfaré, 2012. Image Courtesy of Edra The earliest vestiges of furniture in society can be traced back to the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt when the armchair of Queen Hetepheres I (ca. 2600 BC) was discovered. This armchair marked a significant milestone in the history of furniture.

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Ten Zaha Hadid Design products that go "beyond a simple translation from sketch to object"

Deezen

Continuing a collaboration between Bulgari and ZHD that started in 2012, the B.Zero1 was launched in 2017 and has been a commercial success ever since. The post Ten Zaha Hadid Design products that go "beyond a simple translation from sketch to object" appeared first on Dezeen. B.Zero1 for Bulgari.

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Architects can now add accurate sun positioning in real-time with Morpholio Trace's new 'Shadow Maker' tool

Archinect

Since the introduction of their Trace app for the iPad in 2012, Morpholio has been positioning itself as a leader in software applications made for architects by architects. Shadow Maker sun positioning in Morpholio TracePro. Image courtesy of Morpholio. According to Morpholio, Shadow.

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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Sketch Paper | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Heard around the architectural studio / heard around the architectural studio #010 I can’t find any sketch paper. It is a sketching paper but most importantly, it’s a tracing or better term, refining paper that allows you to work something out by layering tracing paper over it. What do you need it for?

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Fashion designer Mary Quant dies aged 93

Deezen

The sixties mini was the most self-indulgent, optimistic 'look at me, isn't life wonderful' fashion ever devised," said Quant in 2012. "It She would draw the daisy whilst making her sketches in order to let her ideas flow. It expressed the sixties, the emancipation of women, the [contraceptive] pill and rock 'n' roll.it

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