NPR : Tiny Houses Find a Friend on the Gulf Coast: Jay Shaefer designs houses on trailers for the Gulf Coast.

Las Lomas at 4500 West Speedway, Tucson, is the work of Margaret Fulton Spencer, Architect. It is still out in the middle of the desert west of Tucson. There's a manuscript with a history of its making, quite fabulous. Tucson craigslist has a post that reads as follows:

Maintenance Personnel / Handyman needed.

Las Lomas Estates
Primarily a creative adult community for Artists - Writers - Healers Etc.

Las Lomas Estates is tucked away in the Tucson Mountain Foothills, up at the top of Speedway. Thirty historic stone-built homes on 200 acres of protected Sonoran desert, needs the gentle care of a skilled Handyman. Part-Time, 10-15 hours per week (or more, if wanted). Pay starts at $12.50 per hour. Optional housing on property if desired, (an opportunity in itself!)

Las Lomas Estates have lots of history behind them. The buildings themselves are remarkable in that they are built entirely of local stones. They look like old-world "Hobbit Homes." Clark Gable & Carol Lombard spent their honeymoon at the ranch! The buildings have a rustic charm, and the natural scenery and views are exquisite. Beautiful sunrise and sunsets!!!

And of course... there's an extraordinary, community pool.

Price Range: $200 - $900/mo.
Most units are $300 - $500/mo.
Month-to-Month Rental Agreements

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ArchVoices Essay Competition 2006 - Enter:

As the opportunities and demands of architectural practice evolve, entrants are asked to propose a mission statement and an action plan for an architectural practice of the 21st century. Will such an endeavor maintain current methods or redefine practice, as we have known it? What will be the key challenges? Will it be a singular entity or comprised of multiple components? Who will this practice serve and how will it sustain itself? How might the skill set acquired through architectural education and training, technology and material developments, and collaboration with related fields play a role in such a 21st century architectural practice, if at all?

Use PBwiki for a temporary bunch of ugly project photos.

This little building is the subject of the day for interior elevations.

New home for Toph from the Trenches

Metro Arts and Architecture - Metro Bits - mic-ro.co(s)m [growabrain]

Roofs is a page that meticulously describes the problems that occur with sloping ridges and other complicated polygonal footprints.

To make any roof plan:

1. Draw the overall plan of the building with dotted line at locations where there are overhangs.
   
2. Create ridges at desired location (often halfway)
   
3. Create hips. These will bisect corners. If corners are square, then hip will be at a 45° angle.
   
4. Divide by number of feet of total rise and draw contours representing 1' rise.
   
5. Draw valleys at intersections of contours.
   
6. Draw overhangs as needed.
   

21.07.47soquel_trip on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: this is what an agricultural camp looks like, Hwy 1 near Davenport.

Written Documentation & Interpretation - including The Project Resource Manual - CSI Manual of Practice (PRM), etc.

VRML in Architectural Construction Documentation: no relief in sight to ease the CD crunch

the day, the night: architect's tools

California Corner Framing details to get more insulation into a building

San Francisco Prize : Announcement and someone wants to do this.

J O N | W O R D E N | A R C H I T E C T S has useful research pages. The one on green roofs is very inspiring.

The Stage Crew: Stairs & Odd 3D Shapes:

Rise + Run should equal 18"

This page includes schematic illustrations of different kinds of wood stairs.

Math Concepts - 3DSoftware.com. Here is a fascinating look at a variety of concepts from analytic geometry, calculus and trigonometry. It provides the basics in case they've gone away. The matrix is very useful in computer graphics, but once the routine is written...

Fields How-To - Stair and Landing Construction, first of a number of posts on stairs. Trying to design a complicated stair and not quite succeeding, or actually, not recognizing success when it's there on the screen--just stop--wieighs heavily today.

Arudou Debito/Dave Aldwinckle's Page for Longer-Term Residents of Japan, house building chicanery.

Owner Builder Solutions: Japan Window is going to buy one of these, put it in a shipping container and build it in Japan.

Response of Traditional Wooden Japanese Construction. A UC professor analyzes failures of timber frame houses in earthquakes. They are top heavy and have nothing to resist lateral forces.

Designing a home in six easy steps, what to do before CAD.

v-2 Organisation | news | Three vocabularies: Byoungsoo Cho Architects

Elastico.net: USA, 1872-1991, USGS earthquake and dramatic landscape.

41_futuro.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x375 pixels) mini & futuro via fark

IKEA | home | Children's IKEA | Children's furniture | FARTFULL work bench, oh poor trenches

SIGNATURE STYLE: Claude Oakland / Modern homes for the masses

Wired 12.12: Roads Gone Wild via Design Observer--the no-signs, no-stripes approach to traffic calming

Absenter: Opening battered and tough

Sandbag Shelter Prototypes, various locations, 2002-2004, corbeled sand bags reinforced by layers of barbed wire, Cal-Earth Institute, Nader Khalili, US, via Boing Boing

a door to paradise. designboom and cocif international on-line design competition. via BAYA email and Brian Canevari

Wood Foundations wow

Snap search: general structures, a rough search

Areguide.pdf (application/pdf Object), which includes the general structures division statement

GS, download the cheat sheet.

ENTER General Structures Forum - Multiple Choice Divisions - ARE Forum General Structures, where there is a great cheat sheet.

General Structures again from AIA Silicon Valley, the online test is here. Still only 5/10 for this student, not ready to pass.

Amstar Engineering, Inc. - Structures Video Seminar--this page gives instantly recognizable subject headings.

Learning From Accidents and a Terrorist Attack covers normal accidents like Three Mile Island and unusual accidents like 9/11.

The defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting training and protocols. It was improvised by civilians who had never handled a hijacked aircraft that attempted to disappear, and by a military unprepared for the transformation of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction. [page 31]

The "first" first responders on 9/11, as in most catastrophes, were private-sector civilians. Because 85 percent of our nation's critical infrastructure is controlled not by government but by the private sector, private-sector civilians are likely to be the first responders in any future catastrophes. [page 317]

House like a studio apartment in a S P A C E B O X - General information via reBlog. Would it apply to the US? Not easily.

, good for ya' category

gravestmor via things for "an irreverent architecture weblog."

gravestmor ? do it yourself

Step One: Gather your entire village together in one spot.
Step Two: With your fellow villagers, go out and chop down some trees.
Step Three: Again with the villagers, lean the trees up against each other, forming a kind of tree tee-pee.
Step Four: Seal up all the gaps between the trees using other trees if necessary. This step is essential for later steps so make sure the tee-pee is water tight.
Step Five: Make a big timber box around the tree tee-pee. This will be used as form work for the next twenty four steps.
Step Six: Pour 50cm of concrete into the formwork and leave for a day.
Steps Seven to Twentynine: Each day pour another 50cm of concrete until you reach the top. If you have followed the instructions correctly you should have a big concrete box with lots of horizontal lines on it. Inside the box should be an intact tee-pee made from trees that you and your fellow villagers cut down with ancient farming tools.
Step Thirty: Go inside the tree tee-pee. Light the trees on fire.
Step Thirtyone: Run outside and let trees burn.
Step Thirtytwo: Once trees have burnt away go back inside and clear away the debris.
You should now have a big concrete box with a hole in the middle shaped like a tee-pee. If you don’t have something like this, go back through the steps to check where you got it wrong, otherwise post a comment below and one of our staff members will attempt to help you out.
Step Thirtythree: The final step is to pour floor liquid silver over the floor. This will make the floor nice and reflective.

Google Search: gutter size calc points to an imaginative PDF that looks at rainwater catchment systems in the San Juan Islands.

Google Search: gutter size calc points to a PDF that shows roof calcs in a memorable way.

Sizing Gutter Systems answers the question, one downspout every 10'? 20'?

Counting Bricks The Easy Way McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - Utility Gets The Joints Too

The Observer | Review | When is a library not a library? When it's an 'idea store' also via things

a-matter - architecture and related. The online medium for architecture. and visited page 5 courtesy of things.

Life ahead of the curve / The world is finally catching on to iconoclastic architect Dan Liebermann's way of building—in the interest of old newspaper removal. An excellent young architect the Toph worked with went to work for his eminence after the Mt. Vision fire and moved a project forward. The office approach was to be be assertive, let's say, with building officials, and the results are truly unique buildings with a basic umbrella-like structural system seen nowhere else. The article describes this and the characteristic canoe-shaped floorplan and building pad he uses for his hillside buildings:

Liebermann says the most efficient structure requires a circular floor plan. Rather than "cutting a big, nasty, square hole" in the ground and building a "nasty retaining wall with a cold space behind it that fills with dirt and leaves," he works with a hill's contours (most of his houses are on steep hillsides), making an elliptical cut, "a bite out of an apple."

Borrowing from his father's expertise as a dam engineer, Liebermann then creates a concave, curving retaining wall, like a bowl halved top to bottom. (Curved structures are stronger, he maintains, so they predominate in nature, as in craniums, eggs and seashells.)

His retaining wall doubles as the main interior wall of the house. Because such a wall could look forbidding, he usually softens it with a massive fireplace. Featuring a hollow large enough to roast a boar, and stacks of limestone stretching across the wall, the ensemble beckons aesthetically and emotionally. Liebermann explains that a fireplace provides "tremendous therapy" because it's a "primordial, womb-like cave, a place of warmth and security."

As for the rest of the house, he figures the best way to cover an ellipse is with an umbrella. He constructs a central column, perhaps a straightforward steel pole or a birch trunk salvaged from a forest fire. Sometimes he opts for a structure of woven steel beams, the straight pieces appearing to curve as in an Asian wicker stool. Planted deep in the ground like a tree and braced firmly at the floor slab, the central column acts structurally like the tower of a suspension bridge or the mast of a boat.

Liebermann says that during an earthquake the whole building moves together like a boat on waves: "You have a holistic, static relationship between all the parts in my buildings."

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The New York Times > International > Europe > Architect Starts Study of Failure in Paris Airport

The New York Times > New York Region > After 100 Years, a New Rule Book for New York -- toward replacing the building code with model International Building Code

loud paper : news via newthings

ANALYSIS / Designs for living / Prefab house contest, AIDS clinic designs reinforce the role of mobility in creating human shelter

Putting some fab in prefab / Off-the-rack doesn't mean houses have to be boring

In more homes, foundations are built elsewhere: panelization

A house divided / Architect's pre-fab plan to take the sting out of housing market, the Glidehouse arrives on a truck and costs $120 per square foot.

projects archive via eyebeam reblog

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Presentation of Competation for the Architecture Design of National Stadium (2008 olympic Main Stadium) described as Really Weird Buildings by K10K news

The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > Critic's Notebook: Shattered Shapes: Architect's Rhetoric of Suffering: because it's good for you

Turtle Bay | Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay via Truc BAYA correspondence, "Calatrava's first freestanding bridge in the United States."

CHRISTIAN PATTERSON: Spaces, a different choice from malorama

Kansas City Public Library - Local History

f-stop.com - photographs of modern architecture: R. Crosby Kemper Memorial Arena

The Star/Kansas City Millennium: The 1960s: "On Monday night, June 4, 1979, a violent thunderstorm, accompanied by strong winds and heavy rains, collapsed the roof of the 5-year-old Kemper Arena, where, just the Monday before, the disco group the Village People had played. Just two days before the collapse 13,500 people had packed the arena for a truck pull.

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Kalwall aerogel

Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Michael McDonough: Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

Your COOLhouseplans.com Search Results.

Cabin Plans, Cottage Plans and Country Home Plans

Cottage, cabin & small country home plans you can modify sunrooms, additions

Pinus contorta contorta

California coastal sage scrub plant community

VT Dendrology Species of California our trees

CSC.pdf (application/pdf Object) Coastal Scrub

From graywater, green landscapes grow

Southern California Institute of Architecture: Perry Kulper has some atmospheric drawings

Ecotecture | Helical Geometry: A foundation for Nature-based Architecture--something to build for the little master?

v-2 Organisation | news | Junk architecture refers to a BAR fancy hotel similar to Common Ground Community and paraSITE inflatables very similar to an office the Ant Farm designed for the Toph around 1970, an inflatable room within a cold porch in back of a church being borrowed as a non-profit arts organization. It depended on reducing draft for climate control, and was a bit inconvenient to open--turn on fan--, walk around (because it filled the room), and get in and out of. The evolution of the inflatable as a heated room with walls inflating, rather than a single space inflating, and filled with whatever warm waste air comes from a building is impressive.

Taliesin Residential Design

Fine Designz - Residential Design & Drafting Services

The Organic Architecture and Creative Residential Design of Robert Oshatz

AIBD - Architects - Residential Design - Membership

SLOWER.NET: 1407 of 1420: graceful steps

loop.ph - digital dawn via Galbraith.

Caterina.net has an article on philosophers and dwelling, namely Heidegger and Bachelard. The gist of her post is the modern house is a brutish machine providing scant comfort and TV invades it horribly. Read it.

fabprefab - the home of modernist prefab dwellings via newthings

Untitled Document: "CTC - A leader in technology driven support services for the Architectural, Engineering, and Building industries"

Click on Jörg Sasse - 3502, 1995 for a blurry piture of a square, white cottage with red roof.

J?rg Sasse - '(in-) visible' is a short essay on the photograph as a limited way to experience architecture.

Curious how a drawing matches a photograph: both take a two-dimensional static view. Even a virtual model seen only on the computer screen has this limitation.

Massimiliano Fuksas. Congress Center is similar to concept TftT has for Emeryville Park.