Archives for the month of: June, 2009

philipp schaerer’s photography

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philipp schaerer’s photography is a unique examination of how build for relates to its context. his bildbauten series looks at buildings as negative space and his meereshorst series investigates a variable relationship of building form to its surroundings. schaerer’s work is a collection of fascinating minimalist images that seem to build off of the work of andreas gursky and carlo van de roer, but manages to manipulate the relationship of subject and surroundings in a very potent way.

from ::iso50.com

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Categories architecture, design

sketchup bezier splines with ruby

10 06 09 //
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this is my first post from my google phone, so please forgive anything unusual or unsightly…

I came across an interesting article on aecbytes.com about using ruby to generate bezier splines in sketchup. Curves and scripting in sketchup? This poses an interesting challenge to rhino, especially when coupled with plugins like IES, which gives sketchup BIM-esque functionality.

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50 great examples of data visualization

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one could say that all architects do is represent data. from the conceptual sketch to the sd rendering to the cd submittal set, architects are simply representing information graphically as a means of communication. sure there’s consultant meetings, client calls, and other office-type activities, but all of these actions are in support towards providing a clear, comprehensible, graphical representation of information.

here’s a blog post from webdesignerdepot.com that shows 50 absolutely incredible representations of data. looking at these graphics from an architectural perspective, it’s interesting to try to identify how web app design might start to effect architectural representation.

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