"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Why Look to Poets for Lessons on Space? Architecture, as a discipline, has long claimed dominion over the notion of space. From Vitruvius’ triad of firmitas, utilitas, venustas to Le Corbusier’s declaration of the house as “a machine for living in”, architects have positioned themselves...
I’m on vacation in Southern France, and yesterday we wandered into L’Océan de Léa, an immersive world crafted entirely from paper at the Centre des Congrès OcéaNice in Nice. The installation is a vast, dreamy seascape sculpted by the master origami-artist Junior Fritz Jacquet, and it’s definitely...
There’s a peculiar silence that follows a model crash. A moment of suspended disbelief, cursor frozen mid-command, screen blinking in quiet rebellion, the machine silently buzzing and… well, not responding. In the world of digital design — especially in the complex ecosystem of tools you...
Following my latest piece on how to connect Autodesk Construction Cloud and Microsoft Power BI, I thought I should give some attention to another crucial piece of workflow because — as we saw last time — there is no option to push data from Autodesk...
1. A Voice in the Margins, a Lesson in the Centre What does Natalia Ginzburg, an Italian novelist of quiet prose and domestic landscapes, have to do with design? On the surface, little: she did not theorise objects or urban space, nor did she work...
Who (or What) Is Designing? Somewhere between the mouse click and the model update, a question sometimes lingers, one that makes architects react with violence. Who is really designing here? “Me,” will answer the architect. “The computer is Just A Tool and I’m in Control.”...
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