architecture
The physical struggle and value in building your own house (#one-day).
Imagine if there were a Joe Pera style video on the art of architectural hand drafting. Seems like there isn’t a proper YouTube course on this. I guess the market is terribly small… but hey, there’s something very soothing about using a T-square and highly technical pencils to compose something.
Interested in doing a deep dive in Steven Holl’s Hunter’s Point Library. It was a $41m NYC library by a starchitect and everyone seems to hate it (including my friends who lives nearby and see it from his window). A friend I know was given a tour there by one of the librarians, and she was complaining about how—functionally—it was an absolute
... See more“Computational design” is when you use formulas and algorithm to generate building forms or details. This very quickly devolves into “blobitecture,” but I wonder if it could also be fused with the fundamentals to create timelessly good design, and even restore ornament. (Maybe the reason ornament has been stripped is because of the challenge of
... See moreAn idea of how to use AI for architectural animations. I can model just the shell as a white massing model (Tutzi style). From a 10-second animation path, I can export 300 frames (30 fps), and render each one using generative AI. The effect will be trippy because each frame will vary and show the range of your prompt, yet, the geometry will be
... See moreI realized that I’ve been avoiding setting a bold goal for my life, probably because I’ve been burnt by past goals. Right now, there’s a really practical, short-term goal of just sustaining myself as a writer. But once that works, then what? Maybe that’s it, but what’s beyond that? In my grandest vision for my life, I think I’d be an “architect,”
... See moreSimilar to how buildings are oriented (NSEW) based on religious narratives, so to can you meditate in a direction based on an idiosyncratic narrative. In lodges the self in an environment, and increase the scale from room to earth.
Today’s freshman architecture students are almost immediately thrown into a pickle around technology: should we use software to automate the creation of our drawings and models? I was fortunate to take my first semester at the University of Miami, a classical program where there wasn’t even an option. No automation allowed. I literally turned
... See moreThe “2D plane” is the plane for making sense of 1D linear arts (writing) or 3D spatial arts (architecture). It’s a middle ground where you can diagram to see the relationships between things. In the case of 1D>2D, you are “upshifting” to see patterns that aren’t visible. In the case of 3D>2D, you are “downshifting” to reduce complexity into
... See more