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.