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Teaching Practical Geometry

Jane Griswold Radocchia

The barn was deconstructed about 10 years ago. The deconstruction contractor gave me the board. Here, the points divide the large square into 9 small squares - the diagram used on cellphones - or 3 equal rectangles. For more information: In 2020, I wrote 7 posts entitled 'Lessons' for students of all ages.

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Reel House Colorado, Victorian home

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By slowly deconstructing and understanding the ‘magic’ behind the camera, we designed a project that curates a cohesive and evolving dialogue between the interior of the house and the beautiful back garden.

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University of Southern California presents 10 architecture student projects

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Also included is an architectural system that imitates a sponge to store and release water sparingly and a cathedral informed by patterns found in nature. This framework is applied to an affordable housing cooperative model located in Venice Beach in Los Angeles, USA, comprised of flexible and deconstructable mass timber modules."

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Bernard Tschumi is the deconstructivist architect with big ideas

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Heavily informed by Cedric Price and groups like Archigram , this project was a pre-internet consideration of how advances in media and communication might change our experience of physical space of the city. It is the "largest deconstructed building in the world", he recently told Dezeen.

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

What you know have is a folded up drawing 1/16th the area it was previously with the sheet title information on the outside corner. Graphic Standards - Part 2 Deconstruction versus. It’s got lots of ergonomic/spatial data illustrated with diagrams (eg how much space do you need to open a kitchen cabinet when kneeling).

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

My favorites tend toward the last: an abundance of visual information accompanied by input from both creators and critics. I have more than a hundred books in my library that I consider case studies, ranging from pocket-size books to coffee table books, both architecture and other subjects.

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Ultimate List of Architecture Terms

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The main proposed benefit of this tool is that all architects and people working on the topic will have a shared vision and are all informed about the plans. Diagrammatic architecture is the usage of diagrams to develop a building or structure. The diagrams have the purpose to analyze problems and thereby develop solutions to them.