Wednesday, June 26, 2013
A dream come true: TED Talks Net Zero Energy
WOW, an inspirational dream come true! As part of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon challenge, "Derek Ouyang is tackling global energy challenges by combining architecture, engineering, construction and humancentered design".
Enjoy this short 10 minute video:
TED Talks: The House That Teaches: Derek Ouyang at TEDx Stanford University
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Net Zero Energy Architecture Buildings & Articles
This web page includes net zero energy architecture buildings and articles to remember, and is updated periodically, the most recent at the top.
From Belinda Lanks at Fast Company: Peek Inside 8 Of The World’s Greenest Homes
In the article, Belinda writes about "The Greenest Home: Superinsulated and Passive House Design, a new book from Princeton Architectural Press, Julie Torres Moskovitz". She continues, "Some of the projects in The Greenest Home, including Bamboo House [or Little Compton], generate more energy than they use". Does that make you wonder about the standard for a green house or sustainability, and how did that house get into book to begin with. Regardless, Belinda's article a joy.
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From Belinda Lanks at Fast Company: Peek Inside 8 Of The World’s Greenest Homes
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"Bamboo House
Karawitz Architecture designed this two-story house in Bessancourt, France, 18 miles northwest of Paris. The sloped roof is clad in solar thermal panels, which provide most of the hot water for the home, and photovoltaic panels, which capture solar energy".
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"Little Compton
The open layout promotes air circulation and allows for a simplified heating and cooling system, with a single exposed metal duct passing through the main living space. Here, the children’s loft is visible through an opening above the kitchen".
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In the article, Belinda writes about "The Greenest Home: Superinsulated and Passive House Design, a new book from Princeton Architectural Press, Julie Torres Moskovitz". She continues, "Some of the projects in The Greenest Home, including Bamboo House [or Little Compton], generate more energy than they use". Does that make you wonder about the standard for a green house or sustainability, and how did that house get into book to begin with. Regardless, Belinda's article a joy.
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Michael Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
Copyright© 2013 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Architecture Awards to Remember
This is web page includes Architecture Awards to remember and is updated periodically.
The World's Most Prestigious Global Awards for New Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Planning
Pritzker Architecture Prize
To honor a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
List of architecture prizes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_architecture_prizes
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Michael Rybin~۩~
Thursday, April 4, 2013
TED Talks - Sustainability by Design
Below are some quotes and my informal notes from listing to a wonderful set of TED Talks: Sustainability by design (7 talks).
2.2 Mother-in-law's Tongue "The bedroom plant" (Sansevieria trifasciata
2.3 Money Plant "The specialist plant" (Epipremnum aureum)
7. Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff
7.1 The First Cause of Waste is probably buried in our DNA
7.2 Friedrich Nietzsche 1885 “The Birth of Tragedy”
7.3 The industrial revolution ...
7.4 Labor is disproportionately more expensive that materials (myth).
7.5 Maybe after 2,500 years Plato was still having his way with us with this notion of perfect forms.
7.6 Jean-Paul Sartre "Being and Nothingness"
7.7 Gregariousness
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1. Catherine Mohr builds green
- How much embodied energy does it take to build a house?
- For details see www.301monroe.com
2. Kamal Meattle: How to grow fresh air
- THREE basic common green plants which we can grow all the fresh air we need indoors to keep us healthy. We have also found that you can reduce the fresh air requirements into the building while maintaining industrial indoor air quality standards.
2.1 Areca Palm "The living room plant" (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)
- Removes c02 and converts it to oxygen.
- 4 plants per person.
- Wipe leaves daily in dirty cities or once per week in clear air cities.
- Grow them in ? manure or hydroponics.
- Take them outdoors every 3 months.
2.2 Mother-in-law's Tongue "The bedroom plant" (Sansevieria trifasciata
- Converts c02 into oxygen at night.
- 6-8 waist high plants per person.
2.3 Money Plant "The specialist plant" (Epipremnum aureum)
- Removes formaldehyde and other ? chemicals.
- With these three plants you can grow all the fresh air you need, even if you were in a bottle.
- Tried and tested these plants for 15 years at:
- Paharpur Business Centre and Software Technology Incubator Park, New Delhi, India.
- It is a 20 year old, 50,000 sq. ft. building.
- Over 1,200 plants for 300 building occupants.
- Their studies found there is a 42% probability that one’s blood oxygen going up by 1% if one stays in this building for 10 hours. Reduced eye irritation by 52%. Respiratory system by 34%. Headaches by 24%. Lung impairment by 12%. Asthma by 9%. Increased productivity 20%. Reduction in building energy requirements by 15%.
- “Be the change you wish to see in the world” said Gandhi.
3. Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic
- The Garbage Man!
- Your stuff.
- “Above-Ground Mines”.
- Recovering and recycling our stuff.
- Take clues from mother-nature who recycles and reuses most everything.
4. Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
- Using mushrooms to create an entirely new class of materials.
- Create materials that fit into nature’s natural recycling environment.
- Mushrooms are a recycling system.
- Mycellum 100% biodegradable = fire, insulating, and water resistant.
5. Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!
- TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and -- wait for it – meat
- Why? Because we can!
- Pleatching or grafting trees together – a fab tree hab.
- Sustainable organic architecture.
- What if architecture and biology became one?
6. Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
- Perhaps we should move quickly to the desert?
- Welcome to India’s golden desert.
- 40 different names of clouds, though there are not many clouds in that area.
- Structures that harvest rain collects 100,000 litters pure (0b) drinking water in one season – superior to modern commercial water megaprojects.
- Every roof collects rain water.
7. Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff
- "Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. Meaning is “that for every perception that we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before or we do not have continuity and we become a little bit disoriented”.
- “Rattles the expected pattern in unity of structural features”.
- “Gestalt psychology emphasizes the recognized of pattern over parts that comprise a pattern”.
- "That serves me everyday. Repetition creates pattern”.
- Throwing away things that are not perfect causes a lot of waste in the building industry.
7.2 Friedrich Nietzsche 1885 “The Birth of Tragedy”
- “Cultures tend to swing between one of two perspectives:
- Apollonian perspective “Crisp, premeditated, intellectualized, and perfect.”
- - versus -
- Dionysian perspective “passion, intuition, tolerant of organic texture and human gesture.”
- I feature blemish!
- I feature organize process!
- Apollonian mindset creates mountains of waste.
7.3 The industrial revolution ...
- ... has created gizmos that will do anything, that we up to that point had to do by hand. Now we have standardized materials. Well trees don’t grow 2 inches by 4 inches, 8, 10, and 12 feet tall. We create mountains of waste. Trees are doing a good job in the forest working the byproduct of their industry.
- “But it does no good to be responsible at the point of harvest if consumers are wasting the harvest at the point of consumption”.
7.4 Labor is disproportionately more expensive that materials (myth).
- Jim was digging through the trash to find header material. “If you were paying me $300 an hour I can see how you might say that but right now I am saving you $5 a minute. Do the math.
7.5 Maybe after 2,500 years Plato was still having his way with us with this notion of perfect forms.
- He said we have in our noggin the perfect idea of what we want and we force environmental resources to accommodate that – the perfect house, the American dream. The problem is that we can’t afford it, so we have the American dream look-alike which is a mobile home - now there is a blight on the plant.
7.6 Jean-Paul Sartre "Being and Nothingness"
- It’s a quick read – you can snap through it in maybe two years reading 8 hours a day.
- Sartre discusses “The divided self” – human beings act differently when they know they are alone compared to when they know somebody else is around.
- “So when you come into the room, I am fulfilling your expectations of how I should live my life”. I feel that expectation. Subdivisions look the same. Gated communities, a formalized expectation!
7.7 Gregariousness
- Human beings are a social species - we hang together in groups – we do what that group does, that we are trying to identify with!
- We have confused Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and have shoved vanity at the base of our needs and values.
- “Our housing has become a commodity”.
- “It takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions”. And not make our housing a commodity”
- “If failure destroys you, then you can do this”.
- Some people say to us, that is really not going to work.
- We are tempted to say, go such an egg.
- “We may have invented excess, but the problem with waste is world-wide”.
- “We clearly are in trouble”.
- Try something new. If it does not work, take it down - that’s OK!
- “What we need to do is reconnect with who we really primal parts of ourselves, and that’s thrilling indeed”.
Michael Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Essay, A Global History of the Pre-Dawn of Architecture
Arch 3210 Survey of World Architecture 1 Michael
Rybin
Professor: Shundana Yusaf
Fall
2012
Monday 10 Sept 2012
A Global History of the Pre-Dawn of Architecture
From the beginning
of time or the period of enlightenment, humans have lived on the earth. This time is also known as the age of
certainty or the age of reason versus belief.
Around the eighteenth century, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote
about the period of enlightenment with ideas like every man is capable of reason
so common man should challenge intellectual ideas of speculation that are not
based on experience.
Around
or between the renaissance and baroque periods, Swiss art critic Heinrich
Wolfflin wrote three very influential books that continue to be used by
architects today, the Renaissance und Barock (1888), Die Klassische
Kunst (1898, "Classic Art"), and Kunstgeschichtliche
Grundbegriffe (1915, "Principles of Art History"). Heinrich capture the zeitgeist or culture and
time by looking at form and appearance and geometry in art paintings to produce
empathy with prior civilizations and architecture.
How do local
historians imagine the world of architecture historically? How do they read buildings around the world,
both past and present?
Many
scientist and people believe human evolution began with pre-human primates
followed by Homo Erectus in Africa from 150,000 BP who walk on two feet, had fire,
and stone tools, but no language or ability to speak or communicate because we
have no recorded evidence like pictures or books on stone or metal, or other
materials. Perhaps Homo erectus people
had communication and prodigious intelligence or photographic memories of
knowledge they passed from father and mother to children and neighbors which
required no dependences on recording devices like books or Google.
Home erectus: range ca. 150,000 BP
Later Home Sapiens
are a different species believed by some scientist to have unique genes, language,
tools, and ochre, symbolic expression through geometrical drawings and
etchings. The original meaning of these
and other archaeological findings like necklaces and dwellings are unknown
but interpreted as a more intelligent
civilization with language, kingship, abstract thinking, and ritual practices
including status, marriage, and hunting and dance ceremony and organized
architecture. In addition, it is believe
these people had an understanding about the relationship between nature and
man, animals and humans and the dead and living. Some of these interpretations are based on
the lives of people living in Africa today.
Cave drawings in Africa from 25,000
BC help us learn about the first plan city that seemed to be dominated or
synchronized with nature and hunting and agriculture near rivers. Historically oral storytellers shared or
transferred their ideas about life and experience. What did one culture know
about past cultures was sometimes lost in translation.
Chauvet Cave Drawings 30,000 BCE
The modern city
with the latest technology is based on previous knowledge and solves prior
problems of function and representation.
In the last twenty years, the global approach or conscience of
architecture has evolved from a connection of many ideas around the world. Economics, trade, tools, philosophy, travel
instantaneously bridged what one builder knows about architecture in a faraway
country with another engineer on the other side of the world.
Buildings have also evolved from basic
shelters to encompass commerce, culture, landmarks, symbolic and religion. Specific buildings have connections to past
civilizations are now used as tourist sites which is completely different from
their originally intended function. Knowledge
of precedence and presence, multi-cultured universal values including common
rights from all cultures drives us forward while looking at the past in our
rear-view mirror.
- Personal notes taken from Professor Shundana Yusaf lecture-one August 20, and lecture-two Aug 22, 2012.
- Photos from professor’s Shundana Yusaf lecture slides.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
U.S. Green Building Standards
Informal Notes and related links about U.S. Green Building Standards...
‘Active House’ Makes U.S. Debut
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/green-building-news/active-house-makes-us-debut
Does the U.S. need another green-building standard?
Active House
one difference = There also are goals for the amount of daylight the buildings take advantage of, maximum and minimum indoor temperatures, and maximum permissible carbon dioxide levels.
National Green Building Standard (Previously: ASNI-ICC 700)
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.) for Homes is the residential green building program from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). While this program is primarily designed for and applicable to new home projects, major gut rehabs can qualify.
Passivhaus Institute or Passive House (Wikipedia)
A residential building construction standard requiring very low levels of air leakage, very high levels of insulation, and windows with a very low U-factor. Developed in the early 1990s by Bo Adamson and Wolfgang Feist, the standard is now promoted by the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, Germany. To meet the standard, a home must have an infiltration rate no greater than 0.60 AC/H @ 50 pascals, a maximum annual heating energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (4,755 Btu per square foot), a maximum annual cooling energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (1.39 kWh per square foot), and maximum source energy use for all purposes of 120 kWh per square meter (11.1 kWh per square foot). The standard recommends, but does not require, a maximum design heating load of 10 W per square meter and windows with a maximum U-factor of 0.14. The Passivhaus standard was developed for buildings in central and northern Europe; efforts are underway to clarify the best techniques to achieve the standard for buildings in hot climates.
Energy Star
= = =
Building America Builders Challenge
A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program to promote the construction of “better than Energy Star” homes. A home must have a maximum HERS rating of 70 to meet Builders Challenge requirements.
The Green Building Advisor Glossary
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/glossary
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Michael Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
Copyright© 2013 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
‘Active House’ Makes U.S. Debut
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/green-building-news/active-house-makes-us-debut
Does the U.S. need another green-building standard?
Active House
one difference = There also are goals for the amount of daylight the buildings take advantage of, maximum and minimum indoor temperatures, and maximum permissible carbon dioxide levels.
National Green Building Standard (Previously: ASNI-ICC 700)
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.) for Homes is the residential green building program from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). While this program is primarily designed for and applicable to new home projects, major gut rehabs can qualify.
Passivhaus Institute or Passive House (Wikipedia)
A residential building construction standard requiring very low levels of air leakage, very high levels of insulation, and windows with a very low U-factor. Developed in the early 1990s by Bo Adamson and Wolfgang Feist, the standard is now promoted by the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, Germany. To meet the standard, a home must have an infiltration rate no greater than 0.60 AC/H @ 50 pascals, a maximum annual heating energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (4,755 Btu per square foot), a maximum annual cooling energy use of 15 kWh per square meter (1.39 kWh per square foot), and maximum source energy use for all purposes of 120 kWh per square meter (11.1 kWh per square foot). The standard recommends, but does not require, a maximum design heating load of 10 W per square meter and windows with a maximum U-factor of 0.14. The Passivhaus standard was developed for buildings in central and northern Europe; efforts are underway to clarify the best techniques to achieve the standard for buildings in hot climates.
Energy Star
= = =
Building America Builders Challenge
A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program to promote the construction of “better than Energy Star” homes. A home must have a maximum HERS rating of 70 to meet Builders Challenge requirements.
The Green Building Advisor Glossary
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/glossary
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Michael Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
Copyright© 2013 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Wikipedia Architecture Lists to Remember
Friends:
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I was surfing the web and discovered a Wikipedia:
List of architecture prize
which led me to . . .
Timeline of architectural styles
Architecture lists
Architectural design
Architectural styles
Architecture
Architectural history
History of architecture
Design-related lists
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
You can vote for U.S. government to use LEED
"Want to have a say in whether the U.S. government continues to use LEED?
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking public comments on a long-awaited recommendation regarding green building rating systems".
The comment period will be open through April 6, 2013.
For more information, visit www.gsa.gov/
My vote / comment: "Please continue to support government laws for all buildings to require the highest energy savings and sustainability standards and scales including: U.S. Green Building Council LEED, Passive House, PRiSM, HERS Index, COMNET, ASHRAE, and others".
For more information about LEED see
http://www.nrdc.org/buildinggreen/leed.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design
Also see U.S. Department of Energy's:
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Residential and Commercial Building Energy Audits
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Best Places to visit in New York City
We just got back from a wonderful week long field trip and architecture tour of New York City.
The High Line Park
Sometimes when you walk through a building or space you think, they could have done this or that to make it better. Not with the High Line! It is perfection.
Guggenheim - The Frank Lloyd Wright Building
From pictures on the Internet and in books, the building looks gigantic and almost too big. However, I had the completely opposite experience when visiting the Guggenheim in person. When walking down the street, from the moment I saw the exterior of the building, it was ideal companion to the neighborhood. The inside architecture design was an inspiration from heaven and perfect balance of space and function kindling a wonderful feeling of comfort.
Scotty's Diner
Absolutely "the best hamburger I have every tasted" one student said.
A crazy schedule jam packed run from one building tour to another, all day with 50 other students.
Here are my favorite places in NYC:
Sometimes when you walk through a building or space you think, they could have done this or that to make it better. Not with the High Line! It is perfection.
Guggenheim - The Frank Lloyd Wright Building
From pictures on the Internet and in books, the building looks gigantic and almost too big. However, I had the completely opposite experience when visiting the Guggenheim in person. When walking down the street, from the moment I saw the exterior of the building, it was ideal companion to the neighborhood. The inside architecture design was an inspiration from heaven and perfect balance of space and function kindling a wonderful feeling of comfort.
Scotty's Diner
Absolutely "the best hamburger I have every tasted" one student said.
Michael Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Dieter Rams Ten Principles of Good Design
Friends:
Who can tell us what is good and bad architecture design when professionals and professors debate opposing opinions between themselves? Is there an intelligent and objective set of design principles by which to clearly understand and judge the difference between good and bad architecture? Are the gestalt design principles spoken of in Rudolf Arnheim’s book “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye” the answer? What are the specific design criteria by which to compare programs and projects to historical styles or modern environmental and sustainable standards? Is the best architecture design and evaluation based on the professional skill of subjective evaluation, that some intelligent yet inexperienced people would call varied or ambiguous? To answer these questions, this is the beginning of a collection of good design "principles".
From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Exhibition Press Release June 29, 2011: "SFMOMA PRESENTS LESS AND MORE: THE DESIGN ETHOS OF DIETER RAMS"
"Rams's Ten Principles of "Good Design"
Good Design Is Innovative— The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
Good Design Makes a Product Useful—A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product while disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Good Design Is Aesthetic—The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.
Good Design MakesA Product Understandable—It clarifies the product's structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user's intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory.
Good Design Is Unobtrusive— Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.
Good Design Is Honest— It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept
Good Design Is Long-lasting— It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today's throwaway society.
Good Design Is Thorough Down to the Last Detail—Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
Good Design Is Environmentally Friendly— Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimises physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.
Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible—Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity".
Who can tell us what is good and bad architecture design when professionals and professors debate opposing opinions between themselves? Is there an intelligent and objective set of design principles by which to clearly understand and judge the difference between good and bad architecture? Are the gestalt design principles spoken of in Rudolf Arnheim’s book “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye” the answer? What are the specific design criteria by which to compare programs and projects to historical styles or modern environmental and sustainable standards? Is the best architecture design and evaluation based on the professional skill of subjective evaluation, that some intelligent yet inexperienced people would call varied or ambiguous? To answer these questions, this is the beginning of a collection of good design "principles".
From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Exhibition Press Release June 29, 2011: "SFMOMA PRESENTS LESS AND MORE: THE DESIGN ETHOS OF DIETER RAMS"
"Rams's Ten Principles of "Good Design"
Good Design Is Innovative— The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.
Good Design Makes a Product Useful—A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product while disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Good Design Is Aesthetic—The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.
Good Design MakesA Product Understandable—It clarifies the product's structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user's intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory.
Good Design Is Unobtrusive— Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.
Good Design Is Honest— It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept
Good Design Is Long-lasting— It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today's throwaway society.
Good Design Is Thorough Down to the Last Detail—Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
Good Design Is Environmentally Friendly— Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimises physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.
Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible—Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity".
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Fast Company Articles to Remember
This is web page includes Fast Company articles remember and is updated
periodically.
Is This What Urban Buildings Will Look Like In 2050?
Is This What Urban Buildings Will Look Like In 2050?
Monday, February 18, 2013
Service Companies to Remember
This is web page includes companies to remember that provide various services like CNC Routing, Laser Cutting, Metal Laser Cutting --- and is updated periodically. For materials and supplies see Recommended Material and Supply Companies
________________________________________________________________________________
586-954-2553
...provides comprehensive services that produce rapid turnaround on highly-complex plastic injection-molds, molded parts and assemblies.
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CNC Routing Service
When shopping around for CNC manufacturer, one shop said the router vibration would chew up the thin wood fingers in my design. CNC Routing Services said they could do it, and they did a great job. See the results CNC Wood Project Portfolio.
I highly recommend their laser services.
________________________________________________________________________________I highly recommend their laser services.
Excellent laser cutting services, including a variety of materials
435 458 3340
435 458 3340
RJ and Nancy responded faster than anyone else I contacted. I was happily surprised when they cut a sample and emailed me a picture of the results in PDF. They laser cut with a variety of materials they store on-site, and they ship overnight. Very reasonably priced too. I highly recommend their laser services.
660 N 300 W
Salt Lake City, Utah 84103
801-953-0317
Services include CNC routing and 3D printing plus:
Fabrication
Visualization
Rapid / prototyping
Design / fabrication consulting
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Plastic Fabricating
3571 South 300 West
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115
801-262-6994
A long list of professional services including CNC routing
3270 West Directors Row
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
801-972-3500
Their team is great. They gave me and some friends a tour of their facilities and were helpful at working out the kinks in our individual projects. Very responsive! See the results: Laser Metal Project Portfolio.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84103
801-953-0317
Services include CNC routing and 3D printing plus:
Fabrication
Visualization
Rapid / prototyping
Design / fabrication consulting
________________________________________________________________________________
Plastic Fabricating
3571 South 300 West
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115
801-262-6994
A long list of professional services including CNC routing
________________________________________________________________________________
Wasatch Laser Processing (Metal) 3270 West Directors Row
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
801-972-3500
Their team is great. They gave me and some friends a tour of their facilities and were helpful at working out the kinks in our individual projects. Very responsive! See the results: Laser Metal Project Portfolio.
Michael Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Architecture is a wonderful life ™
Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
"The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century"
The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century: Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles
- "A survey of textbooks reveals that Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of the twentieth century, followed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The same evidence shows that the greatest architects alive today are Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano. Scholars have long been aware of the differing approaches of architects who have embraced geometry and those who have been inspired by nature, but they have never compared the life cycles of these two groups. The present study demonstrates that, as in other arts, conceptual architects have made their greatest innovations early in their careers, whereas experimental architects have done their most important work late in their lives. Remarkably, the experimentalists Le Corbusier and Frank Gehry designed their greatest buildings after the age of 60, and Frank Lloyd Wright designed his after 70".
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
People to Remember
This web page includes people to remember, and is updated periodically.
"Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS[1] FRSE (2 May 1860, Edinburgh – 21 June 1948, St Andrews) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist,[2] he is mainly remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, written largely in Dundee in 1915. Peter Medawar, the 1960 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, called it "the finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue".[3] The book pioneered the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants and animals."
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"Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS[1] FRSE (2 May 1860, Edinburgh – 21 June 1948, St Andrews) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist,[2] he is mainly remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, written largely in Dundee in 1915. Peter Medawar, the 1960 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, called it "the finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue".[3] The book pioneered the scientific explanation of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants and animals."
Michael
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A Typeface Where Every Letter Is An Optical Illusion
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Resources to Remeber
This web page includes resources and tools to remember, and is updated periodically. I
started this list on my previous college e-portfolio blog, and will continue to build
it here from now on.
http://www.ribabookshops.com/
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/
http://www.susdesign.com/
http://www.printmini.com/calc.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Frank_Lloyd_Wright.html
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http://www.ribabookshops.com/
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/
http://www.susdesign.com/
http://www.printmini.com/calc.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Frank_Lloyd_Wright.html
Michael
Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Great Architects to Remember
This web page includes architects to remember, and is updated periodically. I started this list on my previous college e-portfolio blog, and will continue to build it here from now on.
Antoni Gaudi
Antonio Serrato-Combe
Dieter Rams
Doug Patt ~ How To Architect
Erwin Hauer
Frank Lloyd Wright ~ Foundation
I. M. Pei
Joerg Ruegemer
Santiago Calatrava
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Antoni Gaudi
Antonio Serrato-Combe
Dieter Rams
Doug Patt ~ How To Architect
Erwin Hauer
Frank Lloyd Wright ~ Foundation
I. M. Pei
Joerg Ruegemer
Santiago Calatrava
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Michael
Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
LibraryThing Website is the Best
The Library Thing or "LibraryThing"" website is the best "online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth."
My LibraryThing catalog of books
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My LibraryThing catalog of books
Michael
Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
WOW Ideas to Remeber
This web page includes a variety of WOW ideas to remember, and has new content added periodically, the most recent at the top.
"Instant city is a music building game table. One or more players at a table can create architecture using semi-transparent building blocks and in the process make different modular compositions audible." Instant City Video
The Greenest Commercial Building in the World - Company: Bullitt Center
"The Living Building Challenge is a bold, new certification program that tests green buildings against the most rigorous performance standards in the world. A building cannot receive full certification until it has operated at demanding levels for at least one year. Much attention has been directed to the energy, water and materials criteria of the Challenge; these are objective characteristics that can be measured and counted. However, I want to focus on an equally critical part of the LBC test – “beauty” – and the central role it plays in green building design."
Living Proof: Building the Bullitt Center - Video
The Greenest Office Building In The World Is About To Open In Seattle - Article
House in a suitcase: tiny home + 2 trunks of furniture
by Barcelona architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores
(in collaboration with the Mallorcan architectural firm Duch-Pizà)
“Hobbit House” Chester County, Pennsylvania
by Archer & Buchanan Architecture
An Architecture Firm Takes the Hobbit House Seriously
First Turners Cube,
by Jake Horsey
Design and Fabrication — Sunderland, MA
Not So Big House
"Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live "
by Sarah Susanka
Her books are as wonderful as her archtiecture!
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"Instant city is a music building game table. One or more players at a table can create architecture using semi-transparent building blocks and in the process make different modular compositions audible." Instant City Video
The Greenest Commercial Building in the World - Company: Bullitt Center
"The Living Building Challenge is a bold, new certification program that tests green buildings against the most rigorous performance standards in the world. A building cannot receive full certification until it has operated at demanding levels for at least one year. Much attention has been directed to the energy, water and materials criteria of the Challenge; these are objective characteristics that can be measured and counted. However, I want to focus on an equally critical part of the LBC test – “beauty” – and the central role it plays in green building design."
Living Proof: Building the Bullitt Center - Video
The Greenest Office Building In The World Is About To Open In Seattle - Article
House in a suitcase: tiny home + 2 trunks of furniture
by Barcelona architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores
(in collaboration with the Mallorcan architectural firm Duch-Pizà)
“Hobbit House” Chester County, Pennsylvania
by Archer & Buchanan Architecture
An Architecture Firm Takes the Hobbit House Seriously
First Turners Cube,
by Jake Horsey
Design and Fabrication — Sunderland, MA
Not So Big House
"Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live "
by Sarah Susanka
Her books are as wonderful as her archtiecture!
Michael
Rybin~۩~
Architecture is a wonderful life ™Copyright© 2012 Michael Rybin All Rights Reserved.
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