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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. A complete English translation of Serlio's 5 Books on Architecture , including the sketch of the pediment's layout, was available in the UK about 1720. He wrote, ". He wrote, ".

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Super Cool Things To Draw On A Whiteboard

DesignRulz

Doodles and Sketches: Let your creativity flow by doodling and sketching on a whiteboard. Educational Diagrams: Whiteboards are highly effective for visualizing complex concepts. Educational Diagrams: Whiteboards are highly effective for visualizing complex concepts.

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Fondation Louis Vuitton: Frank Gehry Reflects on the Making of an Architectural Icon in Paris

Architizer

Early conceptual sketch by Gehry, 2006 © Frank O. Gehry Your early sketch for the building remains an iconic example of creative conception. We build a lot of basic block models exploring the three-dimensional functional diagram of the building. My sketches don’t come out of thin air.

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Only two weeks left to enter Dezeen and Samsung's Re:Create Design Challenge

Deezen

Supporting images can include alternative angles of the main image, as well as other renders, drawings, sketches or diagrams that explain the concept. How to enter Entrants must produce visualisations depicting the product or service in use, along with supporting text to describe their idea explaining how it meets the brief.

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Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project

Life of an Architect

Despite knowing it was coming for me, I decided to post one of my recent sketches to Instagram and Facebook … and I was murdered. Here was the sketch that got me murdered. Since I tend to sketch when I talk, drawings and diagrams are created in real-time, right in front of the client, that reflect our conversation.

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Last chance to enter Dezeen and Samsung's Re:Create Design Challenge

Deezen

Supporting images can include alternative angles of the main image, as well as other renders, drawings, sketches or diagrams that explain the concept. How to enter Entrants must produce visualisations depicting the product or service in use, along with supporting text to describe their idea explaining how it meets the brief.

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The Reel House by MCA under costruction

aasarchitecture

Image © MCA This vision and diagram extends into the design of the rest of the house: on the second floor, through a new spiral wooden staircase and a new circular bathroom, while in the basement through an oval, fully equipped projection room. Source by MCA.

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