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Architecture Is Human: Part IV – Craft: Beyond Building

EntreArchitect

These things are human things, intricate functions, cost, evolving technologies and, yes, delight. Craft is the knowing application of technology, dexterity, and materials to make things that go beyond our needs and enter the world of our hopes. It is not “technology” or “building” it is adding the human element that makes Craft.

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Architecture Is Human: Part VI – Methods of Making

EntreArchitect

So the technologies of the computer, the 3D Xerox, the watercolor painting, the video, these models, are all fine, good and great if they are open ended explorations of sharing, not sales tools to justify an outcome that bends motivations to result in a product, a predetermined outcome of the creator, deaf to the user.

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Architecture Is Human: Part II – History: The Other Gravity

EntreArchitect

Katonah, NY 2018). I think Time and Gravity need to be understood before aesthetics and technology. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. Dickinson has also written eight books, the latest of which, A Home Called New England was nominated for a 2018 CT Book Award.

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Architecture Is Human: Part III – Context: The Cauldron

EntreArchitect

Political, legal, climatic, geographic, funding, materials, technology all, every one, have an impact on what we create. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. Dickinson has also written eight books, the latest of which, A Home Called New England was nominated for a 2018 CT Book Award.

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Architectural Education Will Change Because The Way Architects Work Will Change

EntreArchitect

I have been part of the four-year-old Building Beauty architecture program in Sorrento Italy, where the writings of Christopher Alexander bypass all the presentation and technological obsessions of traditional architectural education and focus on the way we see the word around us, including buildings.

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

Learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects today at EntreArchitect.com/freecourse. LePage and you are listening to EntreArchitect podcast where I speak with inspiring, passionate people who share their knowledge and expertise all to help you build a better busines as a small firm entrepreneur architect.

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Alexa In Architecture

EntreArchitect

This is not a Luddite scream against the value of using technology to end unnecessary cost, or to be more effective. Communication is facilitated by technology to the point where architects can no longer have the excuse “I just can’t get published.”. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years.