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21st Century Houses book captures "best of the best" modern British homes

Deezen

RIBA Award-winning homes are the focus of author Dominic Bradbury's latest book , 21st Century Houses. More than 300 photographs, plans and sketches fill the 21st Century Houses book , published by RIBA Books , to bring readers inside the "best of the best" of modern British homes. Photo by Dennis Pedersen.

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Book Briefs #44

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Here is the next installment 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. means of engaging ecosystems and behaviors."

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BROCHURE, RAIN & BOOK

Shades of Grey

You give the client a dozen copies to pass around the boardroom table. But Modernism itself is now a hundred years old and everything we do is built upon reworking a rich cultural inheritance. We had given up on A1 sheets for concept work. Much more agile and effective to laser print A3 or A4 booklets. Iteration is easier.

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The Layman's Guide to Classical Architecture

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

With intricate and lively sketches, he explains the classical orders of architecture that were created by Vitruvius around 100 AD. The tradition of building using these orders was maintained well into the 20th century, until modernism began to dominate architecture. Mark’s Square and San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and Inigo Jones’ St.

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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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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water." He has also received a series of commissions in the Miami Design District in 2018 (in collaboration with SB Architects), years after publishing a book on his alleyway explorations, Tight Urbanism , in 2010.

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