UJ BTech Applied Design Architecture

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

The hidden ways that architecture affects how you feel As more of us flock to urban living, city designers are re-thinking buildings’ influence on our moods in an era of “neuro-architecture”.

4 Important Things to Consider When Designing Streets For People, Not Just Cars 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...

Young Architect Guide: 5 Ways to Tell Your Story Through Drawings Alone 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...

Structure and concept align to produce aesthetic

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

Hexagons for a Reason: The Innovative Engineering Behind BIG's 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...

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

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

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

Jeff Speck: The walkable city 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,...

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

Access to nature reduces depression and obesity, finds European study Trees and green spaces are unrecognised healers offering benefits from increases in mental wellbeing to allergy reductions, says report

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

‘By creating public space you are able to create chances for social change’: Ada Yvars Bravo The Moira Gemmill Prize shortlist: interview with Ada Yvars Bravo

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

1989 July: Whats wrong with architectural education? Almost everything Peter Buchanan critiques the state of architectural education, claiming it is neither current or credible

Inspiration for 2017

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

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