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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

Olive Plaza (my photo) This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. The Portland firm of Broome, Oringdulph, O’Toole, Rudolf & Associates (BOORA) was the architect.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. This post, appearing on a Friday instead of its regular Monday, does not mean regular weekly posts will resume, as I'll be dealing with said emergency on and off for the foreseeable future.

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Sounds of Silence [8]

A Better Built Environment

Discussions revolved around function, choreography, concept, diagrams, but rarely what the building looked like. I firmly believe that modern architecture often is beautiful, and that we can design beautiful structures and spaces in any style. when architecture reached modern times, the very word beauty became taboo.

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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph Monday.

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140+ Software Tools for Architecture Firms [2020 Update]

Architecture Quote

Here are 140+ software tools architecture firms need to know about to stay ahead in 2020. ArchitectureQuote helps innovative SME architecture firms discover and win more projects. Straightforwardly and visually, monday.com comes in handy as the ultimate project management tool for any architecture design firm. ArchitectureQuote.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. A book on Le Corbusier is a monograph.

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Rotterdam 2023: Part 2 - Urban Design and Architecture

Community Architect

In the previous blog about transportation in Rotterdam I touched on Rotterdam's devastating bombing in a Nazi Germany air raid that turned much of historic Rotterdam into rubble and cost over 700 lives in a single night and how the city planners have turned this tragedy into an opportunity of re-invention and development that came in various phases.