tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174618222011-07-15T21:26:48.450+02:00architecture blog, wits universitypeternoreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17461822.post-1156164444273395182006-08-21T14:35:00.000+02:002006-08-21T15:50:50.390+02:00

Not a complete list but some of the more important commands and their default shortcuts. BOLD items were covered in today's lecture.F3 SNAPPING ON/OFFF8 ORTHO ON/OFFA, *ARCAA, *AREAAL, *ALIGNAR, *ARRAY-AR, *-ARRAYB, *BLOCK-B, *-BLOCKBH, *BHATCHBO, *BOUNDARY-BO, *-BOUNDARYBR, *BREAKC, *CIRCLECH,

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The Museum of Bad Art has a great collection of REALLY BAD ART. Here's what they have to say about the painting above:A remarkable fusion of ski resort and wolf puppy -- stoical in his yellow-eyed silence, frozen beneath the ice-capped peak, Dog elequently challenges the viewer to rexamine old concepts of landscape.

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The Herbert Evans sale is on at the moment- now is a good time to stock up on pens,pencils,canvas,brushes,paints etc. at anything from 25% to 40% off the marked price- well worth a visit at Rosebank Mall and Fourways Mall

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Most of your blogs have been registered- if you look off to the left, you'll see a list- please make sure your blog is on that list. If it isn't, leave a comment in this thread for me to add your blog. There are 2 reasons why it might not be on the list:you haven't left a comment yetyou have left a comment but I couldn't access your blogIf I couldn't access your blog (ie. you left a comment but

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Some of the software mentioned in today's lecture:Elephant's Dream website (the short film)SketchUp (free version available)AutoCADUbuntu Linux (free operating system financed by Mark Shuttleworth)The OpenCD (free software for windows computers)

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The first hand-in for this class is to create a blog for yourself by following these instructions (click on the link to see the instructions). You will use this blog to post the work you do during the year.To see the blogs being run by the second year class, go to the main second year blog spacemakers and follow the links in the left column.Leave a comment on this post with the address of your

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That's it, really. Decent resolution pics for the whole of Johannesburg have finally arrived.(Just a note: interesting that the whole car park is empty in this photo except for outside the architecture building)

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A team at SABMiller are raising funds for CIDA City Campus as part of an 'Apprentice' style challenge. What's interesting for a South African project is that they are using a blog and auctioning beadwork on eBay to raise the money.Now as architecture students I know you're just rolling in cash to spend on things like this :) But if you know some corporates who might be interested, drop some hints

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Well,Friday is the date for final submissions for computers. So that's a working blog, the picasso project and 2 revit projects from the following 3:your own housechinese clubthe building for your discourse projectSubmission by 17:00 on Friday 2 June.Clock is ticking!!Please check that your blog is in my blogroll on the right hand side of this page, if not, leave a comment on this thread for me

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As promised in today's lecture, a tutorial explaining the process for this image. Marcday over at Pushpullbar has developed this incredible technique for turning SketchUp drawings into renderings using an image editor. Definitely worth taking a look at. This process uses a Ruby script called display template that is available here.

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Pushpullbar is an architecture and design forum. It started out as a Sketchup forum, and is still a good source for information and tips for SketchUp (like how to do this). But where it really excels is in the input you can get for design projects. There is a forum for discussing projects in progress, a photographic forum and database of architects, and a travel forum (HINT: they are are in need

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As promised, some links from the lecture:Tradigital imaging tutorial by Jim LeggittLuke Chandremasinghe's Institute of Ideas...and finally the 5-star forum at PushPullBar

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Justin, Richard, Feige and probably a few others in the class are trying out multiple blogs- seperating different types of work into different blogs. Freshblog has published a series of hacks for blogger and one of them (by Oldcola) explains how to keep multiple blogs and have them post to a 'master blog' so that you can have all your posts in one place as well as having them on sub-blogs. If you

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This is a piece I wrote a while ago at another blog I contribute to- but is worth while for you to look at if you want to back up your work on your own blog.RSS is a technology that can do some pretty amazing things for you once you grasp it. We've written about RSS extensively at TomorrowConnecting, covering the more common uses. I want to look at one unconventional service that uses RSS.

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As promised, notes from Friday about promoting traffic to your blog. If you want to write content that attracts people to your blog, check out this post about traffic generating blogging styles (thanks to Mike for the tip).3 ways of getting your blog's name out there:1. Network- link your blog to your friends, leave intelligent comments on blogs that you enjoy reading- include a link to your blog

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posted projects: goldring vicklingYour next assignment is due for the 21st of April 2006, at the beginning of the lecture.Using Revit and the supplied rough plans, you will be drawing up a model of Chinese United Mansions (Chinese Club) by Wilhelm Pabst. Pabst was an immigrant architect, who worked under Mies van der Rohe and Poelzig in Berlin before coming to South Africa in the mid 1930s. His

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Lludd and a few other people were having trouble loading images onto the Blogger servers. They can sometimes be slow, but fortunately there are quite a few sergices that will let you hsot your images elsewhere and link to them.Imageshack is one of these services. After uploading your image to Imageshack, you will be given a string of code to paste into your blog page, that will link to the image.

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After months of rumours about Autodesk being interested, @last announced this morning that they have been purchased by google. Over at Tomorrowconnecting, a local tech blog, I've posted some initial thoughts about this. What do you think?

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De Stijl was a 20th century Dutch art movement (also a White Stripes album).I'm blogging about art history today because David White reminded me about an aspect of De Stijl that is relevant to your current project: The progression from 2d to 3d art.Piet Mondrian's paintings (like the one above)are typical of the works of this movement. Later on, architects and designers began using the principals

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Helpline launches today...If you need any help with the software used in this class, then click across and leave a comment- the staff and your fellow students will try and solve your problems.Also, don't hesitate to jump in and help out if you have solved the problem for yourself.

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I've blogged about Peter Fattinger's design- build work before, tonight there is a lecture by him at the Drill Hall- definitely well worth checking out (click on the map for directions).

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Our new project is a really different and fun experiment which has three stages to it (just in case you are panicking about the work load you have 3 weeks!!).Stage 1. 'Picasso' PortraitTask 1.Completed Visit the picasso exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery (if you have not already done so).Task 2. Create a cubist self-portrait in any medium (clay,ice,watercolour,photoshop,human blood,pencil

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There were quite a few questions last week about scaling textures etc. in SketchUp. I have written two tutorials that deal with the finer details of textures in SketchUp:Wrapping a texture onto a curved surface: This is probably the situation where you would use the 'position texture'features of SketchUp most often.Perpendicular mapping tutorial part one and two looks at creating, scaling and

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First things first: If your blog is not listed in the roll on the right, you need to log in at blogger and make sure there is at least one post in your blog, then leave a comment here for me to add your blog to the list. You can get e-mail updates of the whole class' blogs by signing up here, and e-mail updates of this site by signing up here. On to the tutorial...There are 2 key ideas around

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On Friday afternoon, the first years built their shelters on the volleyball courts, which would be their homes for the weekend. Here are a few of the photos (click on them to enlarge).First from around 14:30:Just before 16:00 (around the time Occupancy Certificates were meant to be issued, with the clouds building in the south-west):My last set are from around 16:45 (just when the rain was

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Blogger is a free service for hosting Blogs on the Internet. This year you will be using Blogger to post your work and to look at each other's work in the net (some of last year's blogs are linked here). This post will run through the steps of setting up a blog and making your first post. Click on any of the images to view a larger version.1. Go to www.blogger.com. Click on the orange arrow that

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This is a website that started out as a way to raise money to pay for university- the idea was to offer up pixels on a webpage for sale, at $1 per pixel. 1 megapixel image= 1 Million Dollars! The last thousand pixels are being auctioned on eBay, bidding is at $160 109.09 as I write this. Looks like a good way to make some cash... checl the page out here

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Found this cool drawing at Amethyst.Co.Za that shows the relative heights of various buildings in Johannesburg. Thanks to Rodney for permission to use the image.

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Firefox 1.5 was released today-click here or on the image on the left to download it. Firefox is an Internet browser (like Internet Explorer) that has several very useful features. I must admit to being sceptical the first time I tried it out, but I soon found that the new features are pretty convenient and I now find Internet Explorer frustratingly clumsy. Here are some of the things I love

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John Moffat Extension (Studios)26 November 200518:00 for 18:30RSVP: Ms Tanya Blignaut

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This is an old Surrealist game that used to be played with pencil and paper, but works really well in Photoshop. The idea is that you divide an image into portions, one person works on one portion then hands over to the person working on the next portion but conceals most of what they have drawn,leaving the next artist to interpret the small overlapping strip for him/herself. This link goes

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BLDGBLOG is one of the blogs I keep track of - if youre i'nto film, then this is something that might interest you:BLDGBLOG: Stan Brakhage: Cellscapes: "I first heard of Stan Brakhage as if he were an urban myth or some kind of artistic rumor: some guy had supposedly taped thousands of mothwings – real mothwings – onto a reel of celluloid and released it as a 'film.' Thousands of mothwings, with

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Peter Fattinger is an Austrian architect who works with students to produce some very unusual work- this is a flyer for his "addon-20höhenmeter" project which you can also view here- it's a framework of scaffolding that supports fireplaces, a caravan, computers, a foosball table etc- like MVRDV's 2000 expo Dutch Pavillion but with cooler activities.Peter's students have also built in Orange Farm-

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A brothel,a museum, a park -thesis presentations are on at the moment in the studios, and are worth taking a look at. Moreblessing Mberi presented a project yesterday for a student centre for the blind on the AMIC deck at Wits. I'm not actually commenting on the building today, but rather on a presentation technique. Moby presented some drawings which were printed on a special paper which has

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Using the subscribe options on the right of the page, you can now subscribe to this site using RSS (learn more about feeds and syndication) or via e-mail,to have the latest updates sent to you as they are published. I would recommend RSS because it is the most flexible option- you can even access feed aggregators on your cellphone, but their are times when e-mail is simpler or more convenient.

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On the page you will notice a new button- a Creative Commons license. This license covers everything that I produce on this blog- photos,text etc. except for items linked from other sites.So what is a Creative Commons license anyway? I have chosen a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license. I'll go through that rather long name one item at a time to explain what it means (or

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Postsecret is a blog you might recognise if you have seen the latest All American Rejects music video. The site is run by an artist who invites people to write secrets they have on postcards and post them in to him. This makes for some pretty interesting reading, and occasionally some visually interesting postcards as well.

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Some links for SketchUp users today: First up is PushPullBar, a design and architecture site that focuses mainly on work done with SketchUp. The members of this site include practising architects, students and lecturers, and it's a good place to get a crit on your work. There is also a travel forum that has pretty good information on some cities, although Johannesburg and Africa in general need

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(Drawings from Lucille Davies' article on the Jo'burg.org.za site-these are images from January so the scheme may have changed): You've probably noticed the articles and posters around the campus about the Provincial Government Precinct in Johannesburg.If you haven't, here is the plan in brief: (from Robert Greig's Sunday Independent article)The Gauteng plan envisages what has been described as

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Blue vertigo is a resource site that lists links to hundreds of stock photography, font, sound clip, texture and photoshop sites. The site splits these categories up into free, cheap, and pay sites.If you'r like me and get confused by the interface of the site, you need to scroll sideways to see the other categories.

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Archlife is a blog about gaming and architecture- these pics are Peter Zumthor's Vals baths in Halflife 2- this site is worth taking a look at if you are interested in gaming and architecture.

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Posted to Pushpullbar- an architecture site that is aimed mainly at Sketchup users but is worth a look for anyone

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Mirage-studio is a blog by a malaysian architecture student. There are a couple of posts about integrating photoshop and AutoCAD as well as architecture news and links to a couple of other architecture sites.

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This is a pretty cool blog - Architecture Sketches has a series of posts of architect's sketches, and in most cases photographs of the buildings too. Current posts include Santiago Calatrava and Glen Murcutt

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On the left hand side of the page, you will see a list of links under 'Blogrolls'. These are the list of first year blogs. You can set up your own blogroll by going to Bloglines and creating an account, then typing in the addresses of the blogs you are interested in to see on one page whenever new posts are made to those blogs.You can then add that blogroll to your blog like I have by going to

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The list of wits blogs has been updated- most of these are postcard blogs. Some thoughts from the kind people at efrc is worth taking a look at because it shows how you can use a blog to share your work,using it as a kind of online portfolio.Take a look at the sites, and don't forget to comment on them

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Active Ingredient are a group of second year students who have put together an exhibition that is on in the Fassler gallery from the 17th of October.The exhibition includes photographs and a short excerpt from a film that they are planning to finish by the end of the year.From the exhibition:Brief Description is an initiative that explores stories of South African individuals,they express their

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Some of the links from the lecture two weeks ago:Firefox-A free internet browser and RSS reader- a lot more stable and useful than internet explorer. There is also a version that runs off a flashdisk or off a network drive on any machine.Imageshack-Another site to host your images at if the blogspot image upload is giving you trouble. Free, no registration required.Architecture blogs-Links to

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Down the right hand side of the page you will see some links- at the bottom are the Wits blogs- please visit them and comment on the postcards that have been put up. If your blog is not linked on the right, please add a comment with your blog's address to this post so that I can add it to my linksHere are some that have been posted-Sound Possesion:Purpleblood:Dandy Peaches:

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Here is a link to a blog by a friend of mine that explains what blogging is about- this should get you started on the basics, and a bit more, of blogs. I should add that Mike is a blogging consultant- in short, a pro blogger, who writes blogs and helps companies set up blogs.One aspect of blogging that isn't central in that context that you might be interested in is using your blog to track the

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