Interesting Insights into an amazing historical neighbourhood - The Yates Street Heritage District
There are many things to learn from this bit of urban structure.
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The Future Includes Venice
The apocalypse might not come accompanied by massive bangs, but with widespread yawning - or worse.
Why Not Colour In Architecture?
Exterior colour might be one of the big enigmas in architecture. C. Howard Walker, architect and teacher at MIT (in 1893), pointed out that colour has long been a part of architecture, and gave numerous examples, but "...that it has always played an inferior part..." and offers the opinion that where it has been used extensively, the results have often been "grotesque".
SUSTAINABILITY – Part 2: SOME BASICS ABOUT BUILDINGS
In contrast to packaging, clothing, or even cars, whether a building is to be effectively sustainable or not is a long-term matter.
SUSTAINABILITY – Part 1: THE QUEST
Sustainability is a complex topic, and open to many misconceptions and over-simplifications.
Communications with a Heritage House
Perhaps my reader will wonder just what I am. Well! I am the spirit of the whole home of my master and mistress aforesaid. I am the spiritual embodying of all they call home or part of their home... I wanted to speak before now, but my master never gave me the opportunity until today…
Architects and the Facilitation of Development Meetings
An often-overlooked element of creating and renovating buildings is the facilitation of processes.
Understanding Ugly: Human Responses
Why do some buildings beguile us, others bewilder, and others repel? This downloadable book explores the complex relationships between people and the built environments we inhabit.
The Main Points of Mentoring
In education, mentoring often plays an important role. Sometimes the role of a mentor never ends, and might span the generations.
An Interview with Boris Brott
Music is abstract and architecture more material and physical. A musician can examine the materials in-between differently because they act upon a third sense – that of hearing.