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Actually, the first place I'd look for all these answers would be the textbook the professor assigned for the class.... I know it was 150 bucks and unless your parents bought it for you, it's still at ...

Check out the layout design and actual changes in procedure and handling of inmates of all the Georgia USA prisons. They have gone from a "cell block" prison structure to new "open space" prisons tha ...

A good architect/carpenter I've always liked was Schindler. Check him out. Rick Joy was also a carpenter before becoming an architect, for a more recent example.

One isn't abandoning the average person by refusing to design crappy architecture for them. There are quite a few architects with mass customization housing projects in the works for low cost possibi ...

It would be nice to see your improvement. Get some trace paper or vellum and resketch over the previous work but with improvements and repost. Also, these drawings seem more detail oriented, but man ...

Perhaps there is a disparity between residential and commercial clients and the availability/feasibility of designing as one sees fit in each. Still I will have to disagree with your mentality. How ...

well thought out, and attention to detail. You need lineweights badly. Things cut thru should be darkest and things closer to us as the viewer should be darker than things beyond.

Makes sense solid, until we enter into it. When I say what the public wants, I did not mean polling general opinion and designing according to it, though talking to neighborhood and city committees i ...

CSI, two things. The first is that I wasn't talking about the concept itself being strong, but the strength of its clarity, which is necessary in either case, when a client may like a design, or whe ...

I would argue that I need to understand it for me to perceive any inherent qualities of the project.

Your example is skewed considering you had talked with the person who was judging it (your cli ...

Very interesting solidred. My fiance is in grad school in english and one of the things she says constantly is how important it is that our words convey what we are thinking in our head, because in t ...

I believe the point trying to be made, especially with the reporter comment, is that once one describes his philosophy to the public, it is difficult to deviate from it. However, this is true in broa ...

An interesting point I've noticed while reading, about a shift in mentality being architects. I always wondered why we didn't study the human being much in school. Sure there were plenty of classes ...

Hey, I was just including flight and etc in my costs. Maybe it did come across as rude, but maybe I previously had some naive notion that this site was for the discussion of architecture, but not an ...

Isn't that we repeat what we do know? If we don't understand something and repeat it anyway, it never meets expectations, however if we fully understand something we are able to enhance the previous ...

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Topic: few unsolved question about history of architecture...
Misvit Replies: 5 Views: 3745	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:03 am Subject: few unsolved question about history of architecture...
Misvit Replies: 5 Views: 3745	Actually, the first place I'd look for all these answers would be the textbook the professor assigned for the class.... I know it was 150 bucks and unless your parents bought it for you, it's still at ...
Topic: Prison Design
Misvit Replies: 27 Views: 13399	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:08 am Subject: Prison Design
Misvit Replies: 27 Views: 13399	Check out the layout design and actual changes in procedure and handling of inmates of all the Georgia USA prisons. They have gone from a "cell block" prison structure to new "open space" prisons tha ...
Topic: Was Frank Wright a carpenter?
Misvit Replies: 19 Views: 9658	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:41 pm Subject: Was Frank Wright a carpenter?
Misvit Replies: 19 Views: 9658	A good architect/carpenter I've always liked was Schindler. Check him out. Rick Joy was also a carpenter before becoming an architect, for a more recent example.
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:48 am Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	One isn't abandoning the average person by refusing to design crappy architecture for them. There are quite a few architects with mass customization housing projects in the works for low cost possibi ...
Topic: How do you like the drafting of a 16 year old?
Misvit Replies: 8 Views: 6556	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:14 am Subject: How do you like the drafting of a 16 year old?
Misvit Replies: 8 Views: 6556	It would be nice to see your improvement. Get some trace paper or vellum and resketch over the previous work but with improvements and repost. Also, these drawings seem more detail oriented, but man ...
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:51 am Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Perhaps there is a disparity between residential and commercial clients and the availability/feasibility of designing as one sees fit in each. Still I will have to disagree with your mentality. How ...
Topic: How do you like the drafting of a 16 year old?
Misvit Replies: 8 Views: 6556	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:42 am Subject: How do you like the drafting of a 16 year old?
Misvit Replies: 8 Views: 6556	well thought out, and attention to detail. You need lineweights badly. Things cut thru should be darkest and things closer to us as the viewer should be darker than things beyond.
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:51 am Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Makes sense solid, until we enter into it. When I say what the public wants, I did not mean polling general opinion and designing according to it, though talking to neighborhood and city committees i ...
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:21 am Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	CSI, two things. The first is that I wasn't talking about the concept itself being strong, but the strength of its clarity, which is necessary in either case, when a client may like a design, or whe ...
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:03 pm Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	I would argue that I need to understand it for me to perceive any inherent qualities of the project. Your example is skewed considering you had talked with the person who was judging it (your cli ...
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:43 am Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Very interesting solidred. My fiance is in grad school in english and one of the things she says constantly is how important it is that our words convey what we are thinking in our head, because in t ...
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:05 am Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	I believe the point trying to be made, especially with the reporter comment, is that once one describes his philosophy to the public, it is difficult to deviate from it. However, this is true in broa ...
Topic: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:29 pm Subject: On postmodernism
Misvit Replies: 57 Views: 28530	An interesting point I've noticed while reading, about a shift in mentality being architects. I always wondered why we didn't study the human being much in school. Sure there were plenty of classes ...
Topic: Architects required for designing a house
Misvit Replies: 13 Views: 13124	Forum: Design and Building-Related Services Wanted Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:41 am Subject: Architects required for designing a house
Misvit Replies: 13 Views: 13124	Hey, I was just including flight and etc in my costs. Maybe it did come across as rude, but maybe I previously had some naive notion that this site was for the discussion of architecture, but not an ...
Topic: Deconstructionism "Understanding Thought"
Misvit Replies: 134 Views: 51581	Forum: Architecture Forum Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:49 pm Subject: Deconstructionism "Understanding Thought"
Misvit Replies: 134 Views: 51581	Isn't that we repeat what we do know? If we don't understand something and repeat it anyway, it never meets expectations, however if we fully understand something we are able to enhance the previous ...