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From Sketch to Painting: A Digital Art Gallery To Inspire Everyday Architectural Work

ArchDaily

In the context of contemporary society, many of our activities are carried out digitally, from booking accommodation for travel to manufacturing materials and creating art exhibitions. It fuses multiple influences from various contexts, including architectural work.

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Ink Versus Pixels: The Timeless Debate Between Hardcopy Architecture Books and Digital Design Platforms

Architizer

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. As I reach for a book tucked away on my bookshelf, I experience a sudden rush of nostalgia. Order your copy today.

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The Rule Book

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The book 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know attempts an answer. Thankfully, the short statements included in this book, edited by B. Cannon Ivers, are more visionary and inspirational than they are reactive. The book contains some of both. As Orff says, “This is marketing, not reality. Landscapes are labour.”

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Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

I've decided to bring back "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. It's clear that in Cucinella's hands a sustainable future will rely on contemporary technologies as much as vernacular techniques.

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Philippe Block on Sustainable Construction: “Building Technique Is More Important Than Materials”

Architizer

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Order your copy today. There is a quality one finds in people who really believe in what they do. Order your copy today.

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Drawing Resources

30X40 Design Workshop

The Getty Research Portal Access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts, rare books, and related literature which can be a valuable resource for architectural research. Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture (book series) Basically detail porn. But, for inspiration, I find it lacking.

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Book review: When Modernism landed in the tropics with Concrete Jungle

Habitus Living

With by an emphasis on rationalism, applied using modern construction techniques and materials, it was a movement that claimed universal validity. One immediate answer is offered directly through the beautiful photography on show in the book – tropical greenery. Concrete Jungle is a journey across many more examples like this.

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