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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. Perhaps Gibbs includes the knowledge of this diagram when he writes that his 'draughts. I began my diagram here on the lower edge of the pediment's frame. Sloan's Plate XXXV shows the steeple structure. .* He wrote, ". until you look at its doors.

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Book Briefs #48

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

In this of "Book Briefs," — the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog — are six books in three pairs. As the title indicates, these are places that emerged spontaneously rather than being planned.

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Shades of Grey - Untitled Article

Shades of Grey

This blog is for me. It’s a ritual that has given structure to my “private study” for over a decade. My son Joe told me what a blog was about 16 years ago, or tried to. He was a student in Cape Town. The focus of this blog has been to document my personal journey, my weekends of exploring ideas.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The fact I included a case study chapter in Buildings in Print , as mentioned above, points to my appreciation of this sub-genre of architecture books but also to the role they have played in teaching architecture students, spreading knowledge around important works, and promoting architects and architecture within and beyond the profession.

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Should I be an Architect? | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Deciding to write this blog has in many ways become a watershed moment for me in my career. Get yourself an architectural blog and that number will grow to 10 Million times. I struggled taking 2 semesters of physics in college, 3 years of math and structures courses but you know what? and What are you actually good at doing?

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Rotterdam 2023: Part 2 - Urban Design and Architecture

Community Architect

Rotterdam - City of Architecture (Photo: Philipsen) Through my past teaching and current mentoring role at Morgan State University I was invited to participate in the student and faculty architecture trip to Rotterdam organized by Murphy. Murphy also organized and moderated a Baltimore Rotterdam webinar series addressing urban design issues.

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Amber Book ARE 5.0 Review – Video Tour

Young Architect

This blog post will break down and summarize all the parts of Amber Book. Michael Ermann understands that ARE Candidates are graphic learners, so his teaching style leans heavily on using graphics, diagrams, and animations to teach the content of the ARE. . I truly believe Amber Book has taken studying to the next level. .

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