Finding Lifes Structure

Posts from an Architecture Student

[buildingmyfoundation]

Learning how to night render finally!! Wish I could have learned this four years ago haha

[parametricarch]

Grasshopper + Karamba tutorial

[prostheticknowledge]

IOIN

Tech artist DevKid presents a look into a custom projection mapping tool he developed himself to design sound reactive visuals for architectural spaces:

Imagine a space defined just by points. Points as the only constants and reference to the physical world. Then, imagine a tool, something like a pencil. Drawing tool crafted to be used in a 3D canvas.

I use it to rewrite the physical form of the space into digital substance. I don’t want to create a realistic representation of that space, rather that, I want to pull out the essence I want to work with. Connection between the physical and digital world will remain through my points. Someone would call it mapping. But it really does not matter. For me it is important to vanish physical substance of one and give physical reference to the second.

Here is one example of a performance which was used with this software for a stage performance by a band:

You can find out more at DevKid’s website here

devkidstudio also has a Tumblr blog here

[buildingmyfoundation]

You know what sucks??? Having no motivation

It's currently 12:44am....and guess how much I've done for my portion of the project???? That's right..."not enough work". My main problem is that this projects isn't the type of "architecture" I've been used to these past couple of years. To me this project, is an art installation. And it's really hard for me to get into a groove to keep me motivated to keep working on my project. Right now I'm assigned the wayfinding portion that would lead people into the building and down a flight of stairs into the actually library. Again...not really architecture. So I'm over here looking up wayfinding graphics. And you know what else that sucks...is the existing wall and floor conditions of this place. UGLY. How am I supposed to put graphics on this hideous wall and floor condition. Ugly colors ugly ugly

[archistudent]

[lifeofanarchitecturestudent]

33 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE

[cppaias]

Resources

This is my list of favorite architecture Tumblrs, websites, and resources. I hope you find this useful. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them. xo Nicole

Tumblr

archiphile - cool design-related images

conceptmodel - a Tumblr about concept models

dezeen - architecture & design

drawingarchitecture - hand drawings

firstyearcoordinator - Bob Alexander’s blog about teaching 1st year Cal Poly students

lifeofanarchitecturestudent - what it’s like to be tortured by architecture school

subtilitas - a Latin word that means precision; a.k.a. a really sick design blog

tipsforarchitectureschool - what the name implies

Resources

Alex Hogrefe - tutorials; rendering & board layout ideas

All Silhouettes - free silhouette vectors for renderings

Bustler - news, competitions, and events

Da Font - fonts

Immediate Entourage - entourage for renderings

Issuu - a place to host your portfolio

Kuler - colors

Lost and Taken - textures

Luxigon - rendering masters

Revit City - downloads for Autodesk Revit

Stair Porn - for stair lovers only

[architecture-apprentice]

Initial concept model set within the site model with site analysis and the designs response overlaid in white. 

Method: 

1. Photograph your model and print the chosen image.

2. Overlay tracing paper over the top of the photo and sketch on the key environmental aspects eg. sunpath, routes, vegetation, prevailing wind, site conditions and site plan. 

3. Scan in the tracing paper.

4. In photoshop convert the image to black and white and invert the colours. (black becomes white, white becomes black).

5. Select colour range and choose black. Delete.

6. Import your original photo into the file and adjust the layers and sizes so that your trace annotation is overlaid over your photo. 

[archistudent]

A vending machine in an architecture school in Germany selling sand paper, masks, glue, gloves, masking tape, screws, penknives, thumb drives and laser machine tokens - just to name a few. Oh, and tooth brushes too. 

The existence of this vending machine was brilliantly documented by a schoolmate who’s doing an exchange in Germany. [x]

[morrigannfreeman-deactivated202]

When you can’t do quality work on a project because you’re too tired to do it, but you can’t sleep because you keep thinking about the project and worrying about how you’ll ever get it done and how shitty of a grade you’ll get.

[kushandwizdom]

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[omfgco]

Really impressed by this string installation work of Gabriel Dawe. 

[garakami]

String Art by Dominique Falla

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[bullfarm]

Circle, Square

Senior Studio Half-Time Show (December 2013)

(photos by Claire Morton)

[opticallyaddicted]

The Intricate Geometry of Sebastien Preschoux’s Thread Installations

His string sculptures are made up of extremely precise patterns of threads, woven often in natural settings, and cleverly illuminated to bring out the intricate geometry and turn these installations into works of art.

[nycartscene]

opens Fri, Jan 31, 6-8p: KAZUKO MIYAMOTO INVISIBLE-EXPORTS Gallery, 89 Eldridge St., NYC the first solo exhibition in New York, in over a decade, of work by Kazuko Miyamoto, a preeminent feminist figure of minimalism. Born in wartime Tokyo, Miyamoto moved to New York in 1964, studied at the Arts Student League, and soon became assistant to Sol Lewitt… In her early work, (between 1968 and 1972), Miyamoto was primarily a painter of large-scale bichromatic acrylic canvases, works that inflected and, in some ways, undermined formal systems with modest, organic painterly elements. In 1973, the year of her first gallery shows in New York and Italy, Miyamoto embarked on a major nail-and-string wall-based installation at MoMA—the elegant, path-breaking site-specific work which she had been refining for several years as she moved away from painting, and would become her signature work between 1972 and 1979.

[jedavu]

ALESSANDRO LUPI’S INDIVIDUALLY PAINTED THREAD INSTALLATION