June 2011
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Fixing It
I don’t know if you often get the chance to build the works you create. I often get the opportunity to re-create work that other people created because they don’t understand how to build what they created.
With the advent of readily available 3D modeling programs and visualization tools, it would seem to most that creating objects that can be constructed, fabricated or otherwise...
May 2011
1 post
“Do your homework! Do your research! Do yourself a favor and think! Do as you...”
April 2011
3 posts
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Change
Bring on the good positive change! Change is good, change is bad, change is something that jingles in your pocket, and change is the only thing you can do with your mind.
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Philosophy and action
Is philosophy understanding or the development of structure on to which hang understanding?
Philosophy seems to be the answer to a lot of questions. It challenges us to continue and strive to achieve an end to which there is none presently apparent. We integrate, postulate, instigate, initiate and promulgate continuously chasing a dream or perhaps more appropriately a vision. Our daily steps and...
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March 2011
4 posts
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
and tomato soup!: On helping Japan →
grilledcheese:
I keep seeing promises from companies and bloggers to donate a few cents or a dollar for every retweet, reblog, “like” or new follower. Honestly, those bother me a little. I feel like companies like bing.com are exploiting the catastrophe for a little publicity. They say they will donate a dollar…
Keeping safe before the need. →
“What is life, except for the creation of your dreams and desires.
Discover...”
February 2011
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4 Easy ways to Improve your life - Listen
Hey everyone of my friends, I recently got back from the Bahamas after joining this club whose main focus is teaching you how to achieve your dreams and desires. We learned on the cruise for 3 days while visiting one of the most desired vacation spots in the US. I was amazed at the personal changes I experienced and the new insight I gained in to the habits keeping me from abundance and my...
December 2010
1 post
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“The way of civilization:
Ascension - Golden Age - Decomposition -...”
October 2010
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4 Steps to your dreams
Step 1. Listen to the right people. If they haven’t done or currently have what you want, then chances are you should be polite and not waste your time.
Step 2. Ask yourself if you are willing to learn and if you are willing to change? If you answer ‘no’ to either, then you will stay right where you are and potentially slide backward as life moves forward.
Step 3. If your frame...
September 2010
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Building Meaning
All of us are in a time of change. We are either building up our assets, paying off our debts or stripping away our lives to pay for the future one day at a time. Why is our situation the same as it has always been, shouldn’t things be getting better?
During times of drastic change, where most people don’t understand what is happening to them, decisions are often left to other people that we...
July 2010
1 post
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Food, the alternate energy
A lot of discussion has been going on in the construction and energy sectors regarding what will be the next big energy production platform.
Photovoltaic arrays and Built-in PV are gaining ground in the architecture fields as a way to integrate some of the energy collection in to the structures that will utilize that energy. The challenges surrounding this application of technology are many....
May 2010
1 post
“The world is full of freedom. It is a contagion that starts with a single case...”
December 2009
1 post
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Opportunity Costs
When we experience a influx of opportunity and have a large amount of choices to make to better our lives and work, we sometimes become overwhelmed and lose through inaction. Opportunity is a way of perceiving actions that are placed in to our path. Some of them are seen as burdens or unwanted challenges, while other excite us and provide all of our present desires.
Opportunities can be found in...
October 2009
1 post
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Art, Science, Creation and Getting Paid
Is being paid to perform an act of creation in some way counter to the purity of art, science and creation?
In a sense, it would seem that the creation of artistic and scientific work would be impossible, especially today, without a financial backer or benefactor. Having the resources, and let us not forget that time is perceived as a resource, to perform any action is prerequisite to any...
September 2009
4 posts
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“I’d rather live one full day in the light, than eternity in darkness.”
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Making it work, making it right
When something needs to be done, or even if it just wants to be done, there are two ways, technically three, to get it done. You have the wrong way, the right way and the no way. The way something gets done is often not practiced or even eloquent in its execution. We stumble our way through the various demands placed upon us each day achieving results for other people. Sometimes we do this to...
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Consumption, loss and everlasting supply
The development of creation stems from the branches of growth, destruction, process, definition, creativity, need, desire, and consumption. We have been led and taught to believe that all of these things are somehow counter to living and the changing existence we refer to as life on this planet.
Building, machining, sculpting, forming, stacking, and bending materials to provide for human needs...
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Planning and Project Management
Managing a project requires the vision, or sometimes the sense to know and understand what must be done to move a project to successful completion. Lists don’t work (to do’s are just an opportunity to write it down and sort it in your mind) as they do not provide the visibility and relational nature of multi-tasks. You need a visual reminder in your workspace that you refer to...
July 2009
5 posts
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The Structure of Structures
Structures are behavior deployed utilizing a strategy to optimize for interaction in a particular environment. In short, structures are made to survive. We often think of structures in terms of the physical objects in the world. These are buildings, organisms, vehicles, and the matter that make up the many wonderful elements that we are blessed with. It is truly a wonder to have so many differing...
“The loop is often worth being out of occasionally as it provides you the...”
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Operations and structure
What we do is often just as important as how we do them. There are obviously a number of ways to achieve a goal or plan. To the moon and back is a way to cross the street, and often the journey provides all the benefit, while the destination just provides closure.
We are often provided, through education or agreement, the structure under which we may operate to achieve our goals and plans. This...
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Bids
If you are going to ask for a business to provide you a price based upon specific requirements within a limited time and with a skeletal information structure, then provide them with action. When something is bid and the deadline comes and goes, award. Do not string people along on your intentions.
If you are shopping, make sure your intentions are know. Cash flow is more relevant during a period...
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“Technology is about improving human process and not altering it to fit...”
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Transit Structures - Linking people and...
To travel around the world, people use a variety of methods that employ a variety of technologies. We use wheels, combustion, airfoils, magnetic repulsion, bouyancy, and bi-pedal actuation. We sometimes use quadripedal actuation, and it is often in the leisure capacity. No matter how we get around as individuals, we often have to travel in large groups using a common conveyance. Our culture...
June 2009
13 posts
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Public spaces
We all know what spaces are. We all have personal space. If someone gets in to our personal space, they had better be invited or suffer the consequences of someone who feels trapped in a small space who will strike out at a threatening presence. When we are out and about we operate in the public space, and everyone agrees to play nice and not get into someone’s personal space. The boundaries...
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Thanks for keeping us safe FallTech! →
Fall arrest systems keeping you from harms way.
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Equal value & Equipotential spaces
The establishment of order often relegates design to a process of optimization and regulation. Each space that serves the same function must be equal to every other space of the same function. The volume, access and benefits to the occupant must be equalized to provide a flexible platform for operations. In short, no one has it any better than any one else. Well, except for isolated senior...
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Software vs. Wetware (Thinking & Processing)
Is executing specific actions in a sequence (linear or parallel) the creation of life or a machine?
The algorithms that comprise most actions executed by machines and software are specific steps, actions, or decisions that cascade from a singular prior act. Some complex programming includes conditional response algorithms and multi-variable actionable activities. These are put in the programming...
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“You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known and exist,...”
– Benjamin Franklin
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Support the heart of complex structures.
At the base of all structure is a fundamental element that keeps the rest functioning. It can be the legs, trunk, stem, molecule arrangement, ground, or chassis. It is this structure that provides a platform for beautiful expressions to spring forth in response to the environment that must be endured. This is the center or heart of structures. It is the means by which structures find their...
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Afraid to design...get out of your comfort zone!
Designers, architects and engineers all have skills that they rely on. The skills vary and so do the results. If you fall in to one of these categories, then chances are that you have done work on limited types of structures, buildings and products. Belonging to these groups comes with some expectations and a lot of responsibility. You are often asked to be brilliant, daring, efficient, effective,...
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Scarcity and Ingenuity
When there exists something needed and it is not present, what choices are there? The choices embody the person’s choosing and the environment that they find themselves in. Need is determined by an absence of an object, resource, or condition. Establishing need only mandates that no other object or condition exists to meet and satisfy the current conditions. Need surpasses desire. It is not...
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Infrastructure and Water
All great civilizations master a few technologies. Mastery over fire, using tools, print, construction, medicine, farming and clean water. The blood of all life is water. Water pumps through ecosystems, plants, animals, air via rivers, streams, rain, and oceans. Is there a more fundamental element to the success of life? Some might argue air, but let us remember that creatures and plants extract...
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Nomad Architecture
I have an architect friend (currently in Qatar, from California) whose concepts of architecture, professional practice and path revolve around a concept he calls ‘Nomadic Architecture’. I’m not sure what it means to him. From what he has told me, it is about freedom, the spaces between spaces, experiencing the world, and using your talent for architecture and not keeping a seat...
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“Is building space the same as building in space? Is space a void to fill or a...”
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Architecture and building space
It would seem like a contradiction to be building space. In fact, what’s done is the confinement of space, harnessing of space, defining of space and assigning function to space. Space in its self has no definition. Unless you’re a phycisist and would argue that space is defined by mass-energy-quantum-particles and influenced as a medium by gravity, dark matter and unseen forces, then...
May 2009
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What is structure?
Etymology
< French structure < Latin structura (“‘a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure’”) < struere, pp. structus (“‘pile up, arrange, assemble, build’”).
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts;
the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts;
the complex composition of knowledge as...
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Shells and Nature
Shells. Sometimes it’s a game. You are supposed to guess where the pea is hidden after someone moves your options around until they feel you haven’t kept up and then the question comes for you to commit. Is it a trick, a matter of probabilities, or a metaphor for you to pay attention to life’s ever-changing nature? Success is always about paying attention.
Shell structures are...
“Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because...”
– William J. Bennett, lecture to the United States Naval Academy, November 24, 1997
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Emotional Form Design Methodology
It might seem that something that produces such concrete objects in the world as the act of design would involve an abundance of metrics, science and predicated structure. We might also say that people design to meet the needs of society. The design is only involved in making up for some lack that exists within the communal infrastructure. I would argue that the judge of design and its value to...
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Getting into Bucky's Dome: MCA's Show on... →
“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived,...”
– John F. Kennedy
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Fabric vs Glass vs Translucent Panels
What should you cover your building with if you want natural daylight? The options are many with a variety of costs, benefits, and long-term performance issues.
Fabric is lightweight, comes in a variety of materials to address a number of surface configurations. The overall weight of the surface is always less than 5psf and great expanses of surface can be made with a few seams. Fabric and...
Architecture for architects and 9 year olds. Cool! →
r3d:
Lego: Architecture | Frank Lloyd Wright Collection
The LEGO Group and Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures, Inc. officially introduced the LEGO Architecture line in 2008. The line currently consists of six buildings – now including two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Fallingwater.”
OMFG WANT!
Living Architecture
What I want for my money is something that gives me more than I paid for it in time, money and effort. This means that the buildings, spaces, and cities that get built should provide the people that live with and within them something more than their cost. Architecture should speak the language of living and the principles of the people in their midst. This becomes more difficult if the people...