UJ BTech Applied Design Architecture

27/08/2017

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19/06/2017

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170605-the-psychology-behind-your-citys-design

As more of us flock to urban living, city designers are re-thinking buildings’ influence on our moods in an era of “neuro-architecture”.

24/05/2017

Go to any medieval European city and you will see what streets looked like before the advent of the car: lovely, small narrow lanes, intimate, and...

02/05/2017

As all architects know, your project proposal is only as convincing as the drawings and models that you use to represent it, whether for your client, the pla...

15/04/2017

Structure and concept align to produce aesthetic

http://www.archdaily.com/802378/hexagons-for-a-reason-the-innovative-engineering-behind-bigs-honeycomb

BIG are known for unconventional buildings that often raise the question “how were they able to do that?” Such is the case for BIG’s Honeycomb, a...

10/04/2017

http://solarhousehistory.com/blog/2013/10/28/le-corbusier-and-the-sun

from https://acdn.architizer.com/ "To introduce the sun is the new and most imperative duty of the architect."                                                                  ---Le Corbusier in The Athens Charter Le Corbusier is not discussed at length in my book The Solar Hous

31/03/2017

Useful resources for students in UJ BTech Applied Design Architecture

30/03/2017

Walkable city.
Talk 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wai4ub90stQ
Talk 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wai4ub90stQ

How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car -- which he calls "a gas-belching,...

22/03/2017

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/21/access-nature-reduces-depression-obesity-european-report?CMP=share_btn_fb

Trees and green spaces are unrecognised healers offering benefits from increases in mental wellbeing to allergy reductions, says report

09/03/2017

https://www.architectural-review.com/films/by-creating-public-space-you-are-able-to-create-chances-for-social-change-ada-yvars-bravo/10017791.article #.WL-0mGcPdP4.facebook

The Moira Gemmill Prize shortlist: interview with Ada Yvars Bravo

25/01/2017

Not much has changed since I was a student. Sadly....

Peter Buchanan critiques the state of architectural education, claiming it is neither current or credible

09/01/2017

Inspiration for 2017

http://www.archdaily.com/801180/the-best-architecture-drawings-of-2016