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Dr Robert E McGinnis When the wind blows down a pretty oak tree, what do you do?

Make furniture from a fallen tree. There are men with portable saw mills just hauling them around town looking for someone with enough creativity to build something out of a dying or fallen oak. When I cleared this lot that I live on, I had a lot of trees laying around from hurricane Floyd. I cut about 12,000 board feet of good furniture grade wood before it began to rot. This wood could have been burned in a fireplace… Continue

Added by Dr Robert E McGinnis on August 31, 2010 at 3:35pm — 2 Comments

Deb Deck-Suarez DESIGN COMPETITIONS

HOUSING & HEALTH IN HAITI

Welcome to the home of Kay e Sante nan Ayiti – the ARCHIVE Institute’s Open Innovation Competition! The project's title is Creole for Housing and Health in Haiti - two issues about which ARCHIVE is passionate since we believe that intelligently designed housing can dramatically improve people’s health.

Through this competition, we will be building five housing units in St. Marc, Haiti – a coastal town a

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Added by Deb Deck-Suarez on August 27, 2010 at 7:05am — No Comments

Remigius de Souza A story of a toppled van in the US

Once in the staff room of an architectural college a senior professor was narrating a story about how American people are scientific-minded. He had been a visiting professor here in India and in the US for a number of years. He taught building services. The story happened in the late the eighties in an American town while he was staying there, at a town in Minnesota State.

One morning the citizens found, to their surprise, which a milk van was layin… Continue

Added by Remigius de Souza on August 25, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Remigius de Souza The Idea of New Town: Navi Mumbai (POEM)


(Poem written on 23-02-1997: I was writings a review of a workshop, "The Idea of New Town, Looking at Navi Mumbai" (earlier New Bombay). While writings it I was stuck for many reasons. One of them was the stalwarts in… Continue

Added by Remigius de Souza on August 23, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Vinay Jain Everyone's an Architect

I’m an Architect Architects are fed up with people in the technology field using their title, styling themselves “software architects,” “enterprise architects,” and “information architects,” to name a few. It can’t be stopped—but more often than not, it’s the sincerest form of flattery. By: Amanda Kolson Hurley i found this article on following website thought to share with you all. http://www.architectmagazine.com/arch… Continue

Added by Vinay Jain on August 11, 2010 at 4:20am — 1 Comment

Pradeep Kumar 3D Architectural Walkthrough Animation A Great Tool For Architectural Industry - Pred Solutions

Architectural animation is basically a short architectural movie created on a computer. A computer generated building is created along with landscaping and sometimes moving people and vehicles. Computer 3D animation refers to the work of creating moving pictures in a digital environment that is three-dimensional. So, the careful operation of 3D models within the 3D software, which will give the misapprehension of movement, is called animation and it is based on how we mani

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Added by Pradeep Kumar on July 26, 2010 at 10:37pm — No Comments

knstna promising

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Added by knstna on July 24, 2010 at 2:10am — No Comments

Apollo Spiliotis the new archiCADmonkey iPhone app

For more details visit the archiCADmonkey site or just go straight to the App store Continue

Added by Apollo Spiliotis on July 16, 2010 at 9:31am — No Comments

Lucia Poliovkova THE 10TH ANNUAL FREE RANGE ART & DESIGN SHOW

Location: The Old Truman Brewery 91 Brick Lane London E1 6QL

Nearest Metro Station: Aldgate East, Hammersmith Line towards Barking

Official Opening of the Ineteriors Week: 15.7.2010 at 6. pm

http://www.free-range.org.uk/




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Added by Lucia Poliovkova on July 14, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

MyarchN Team 100714 July Newsletter


Further network enhancements
We rearranged some of the content modules on the main page adding a new search box. It is easier now to find what you are searching on the network. Also for those of you that have Google accounts we had enable the Google application allowing to
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Added by MyarchN Team on July 14, 2010 at 1:10pm — No Comments

Rafael Marxuach Maruja Fuentes Fascinating Sensibility

It is with great sorrow that I'm writing this post. Yesterday I was told that Maruja Fuentes passed away. Puerto Rico and the International Design Community has lost a really bright star.


Maruja graduated from the Georgia Institute of Techn
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Added by Rafael Marxuach on June 30, 2010 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Baker A+D The Paolo in Peril, Save Our Soleri

sfis paolo soleri amphitheater

As you may have heard, the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater at Santa Fe Indian School is in immediate danger of demolition. The theater was designed in 1965 by visionary architect Paolo Soleri, who is most noted for pioneering concepts in the fields of environmental architectur… Continue

Added by Baker A+D on June 17, 2010 at 5:21pm — No Comments

MyarchN Team POSTÓPOLIS DF

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Added by MyarchN Team on June 8, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

MyarchN Team 100531 June Newsletter


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Michael McKenzie Adventures in AFRICA...Good Bye for Now

On Tuesday we said good-bye to Alec and Karl. Yes, their three short weeks were up. During their time here they were totally embraced by the community. They designed the metal doors and windows that will be put into the school. The man who will be fabricating them from scratch is thrilled to be working on such a unique and new

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Added by Michael McKenzie on May 18, 2010 at 9:13am — No Comments

Volker Hoffmann A technical proposal to terminate the catastrophe of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Dear all, Dr. Johannes Gottlieb from Montanes has developed a technical proposal to terminate the catastrophe of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. He would like to have his idea spread, so, if you know any people in charge you could forward this to, please do so. The proposal is available in a small pdf. I uploaded the file to yousendit instead of myarch, so you can just forward the link to the download if the person is not a myarch member. Best, Volker Here is the link for your file, which wil… Continue

Added by Volker Hoffmann on May 17, 2010 at 12:38am — 2 Comments

Michael McKenzie Adventures in AFRICA...A Maasai Family and Their Dreams


April 28, 2010
Today I visited the family of a 16-year-old Maasai girl, Brenda, whose father had approached me to find a sponsor for his daughter's education. For a girl to have reached the age of 16 and still be unmarried is somewhat remarkable in the traditional Maasai culture.

Brenda proudly showed me around her home which was made of mud and sticks. W

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Added by Michael McKenzie on May 14, 2010 at 5:17pm — 1 Comment

joakimpaz GODSinFUN - MUSIC WITHOUT FRONTIERS


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Added by joakimpaz on May 14, 2010 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Andrea Salvini THE SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOOD

This mixed-use residential project was conceived as a large-scale, green building development on nearly 12 acres in the province of Caserta in southern Italy. The design and site plan, reflecting a direct response to the needs of this tightly knit community in which environmental regulations are becoming increasingly strict, is intended to be sustainable and improve its inhabitants’ comfort and standard of living.

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Added by Andrea Salvini on May 14, 2010 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Apollo Spiliotis SitePAD™ : the first true CAD app for iPhone + iPad


SitePAD - Pokcket Aided Design

In a couple of… Continue

Added by Apollo Spiliotis on May 13, 2010 at 11:08am — 5 Comments

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