Jane Griswold Radocchia
MAY 3, 2024
The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. He uses the geometry in the pediment of a Menagery, in his book, On Architecture *. I began my diagram here on the lower edge of the pediment's frame.
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Spread from Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 1 1990–2005 , courtesy of MACK Like numerous other architects, my first exposure to the work of Caruso St John was New Art Gallery Walsall , completed in Walsall, England, in 2000, shortlisted for an EU Mies Award the following year, and also a finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize.
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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
APRIL 21, 2023
The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children. M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022 by Thom Mayne and Morphosis, published by Rizzoli.
The Student Architect
OCTOBER 14, 2021
So many people feel the same as you do, and many of them let those thoughts get in the way of pursuing their dream to study architecture. Let's make one thing clear—architecture school isn't art school. Does it help to have art skills and to be able to translate your thoughts and ideas clearly on paper?
A Better Built Environment
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Leave a comment Weekly Reading The Architectural Drawing Prize My love for architecture and the art of design is strong, even as my frustrations with the profession grow. It is seeing things like this that rekindle my passion for architecture. It was rarely heard in architectural school or during design studio critiques.
Life of an Architect
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
It talks about the process – maybe even the realization – of what it takes to get through architecture school. Architects communicate through drawing – we aren’t making art. Drawing Like an Architect Let me say here for the 1,000th time: You don’t have to draw well to be an architect.
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
JANUARY 30, 2023
In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.
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