September 28, 2011 – 11:54 am
A picture is worth a thousand words. The roots of this adage spring from the world of advertising a number of decades before Mad Men’s Don Draper launched his career on Madison Avenue in the 1960′s. If this adage captures the power of the two dimensional image, then what phrase most aptly captures the power [...]
In addition to our office going all BIM (Revit) and adopting Ecotect as a standard analysis tool in the last four-five years, we have also recently been looking at how the use of Grasshopper might provide benefit to our design process. Grasshopper is a software tool that utilizes Rhino 3-D as a modeling platform to [...]
You could say that I didn’t follow the typical architecture graduate student path. I wasn’t drawing floor plans or wishing my computer could render twice as fast. No, I was the spreadsheet girl; I spent my long nights in studio formulating spreadsheets that would formulate into diagrams (a hint of normal architectural thesis protocol). The [...]
