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Ignacio wrote:I agree. There has been good and bad to varying degrees for centuries. The problem is not with the tools. I think the biggest problem comes from people who think of buildings as piles of stuff, ie
I would argue against CAD or computers having changed anything substantial in architectural education, or the problems of architectural education.
2008-10-23 06:47 AM
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Don wrote:Thanks, Don. A lot of food for thought there.
. . . I love my computer and ArchiCad (most of the time), but I was taught how to sketch and think. . .
Don Lee
2008-10-23 10:13 AM
Thomas wrote:Thomas:Don wrote:Thanks, Don. A lot of food for thought there.
. . . I love my computer and ArchiCad (most of the time), but I was taught how to sketch and think. . .
Don Lee
I take it you mean this Ant Farm?
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/03/centro-andaluz-de-arte-contemp.php
The video of the House of the Century is really interesting. An LSD trip in ferrocement!
It also reminds me of Erich Mendelsohn's Einsteinturm 50 years earlier. No CAD there either.
2008-10-23 10:40 AM
Don wrote:Sorry to say, as I read it the house isn't restored, the video is mostly original from the 70ties? Am I wrong?
Those are the guys! Watched all the videos on YouTube. I never knew the house had been completely rebuilt/restored and I guess might be again.
Great stuff and as you say, not a Rhino in sight!
Don Lee
2008-10-23 07:47 PM
Having said that, I am surprised by the fact many American architecture schools just don't teach hand drawing any more (students never receive drawing lessons, they can't make a quickie perspective sketch on a napkin). But neither do they learn technology, or architectural history, or structures, or urban design, or anything, so that even if they could draw, they would not know what to draw.
2008-10-24 05:28 PM
Don wrote:Me too.
Even when I am past the conceptual phase of a job, I still find that I can often solve a problem much faster by thinking it through on a sketchpad. It may only be a minute or two of sketching before I go back to the computer, but it always surprises me how effective sketching really is.
2008-11-03 09:34 AM