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Buildings are a fantastically complicated and interesting complex problem space. I found my architecture studio students using it to ask technical and code questions about the buil…

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In line with the recent threads here on Appropriate Technology, etc. Brought back to my attention by the Advent of Computing podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/21nolZRWrV8M2…

Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World [0] is a foundational text in the area of Appropriate Technology (cited here by others). Essential reading alongside the Illich (also lin…

Absolutely, if they're not asking for your information, as they were when I visited the site. The Wayback Machine snapshot here [0] shows a site identical to the one I visited. [0]…

When I visited the page there was a field to enter your email to "sign" a pledge of refusal. The state I saw appears to be preserved in the first Wayback Machine snapshot: https://…

Who runs this site? There doesn't appear to be any information on this. A whois search returns nothing illuminating. So... is it part of the parable they're trying to tell that the…

I distinctly remember seeing an exhibition of this work in Los Angeles in the early aughts. For the life of me I can't remember where. The photos were shot with a macro lens and bl…

Very cool! If you're just learning about the Wallpaper Groups from this and feel like you've seen them before, it is probably from the work of MC Escher [0]. If you want a great re…

Zometool rules! I run workshops about the use of modular systems in facilitating non-expert participation in architecture. One I did (at the CAAD Futures Conference in 2023) was wi…

Thanks for the link! I have come to modal editors after decades of modeless, I enjoy them - but respect, understand, and appreciate Tesler's efforts, and I always enjoy reading abo…

Our use case for After Effects was video stabilization. We have had good luck with Blender for this. I've also noticed that the old simple motion graphics I used to do - title over…

Unfortunately it looks like BricsCAD has gone the SaaS way, but they are an extremely mature alternative to classic AutoCAD 2d and 3d [0] Additionally, Rhino has always been a good…

See my comment below, or here [0] and the same on github here [1]. [0] https://x.com/XdanielArt/status/1799474607055102257/photo/1 [1] https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternative…

It's absolutely very important for students to understand what standard they'll be held to in industry. But few architects need an intricate understanding of the real publication-f…

No, the concepts are the same. The button you push is incidental. For example, the GNU Image Manipulation Program now has non-destructive workflows and adjustment layers - and can …

I have been an Adobe user since 1996. Starting with Photoshop 3. Then, using the rest of their programs since 1999. Between this and the fact that they've just 1. Changed all the o…

Great article. Where my mind goes as a counterpoint that proves the point is the famous Bill Atkinson lore about -2000 lines of code[0]. As a practicing architect (of buildings) I …

Yeah, in retrospect that was always a little on the nose, wasn't it? A real 'my t-shirt is raising questions that I thought were answered by the shirt' kind of deal.

Bookmarked for constant reference. As a designer, Japanese printmaking is a constant source of inspiration, and the effort that went into putting this together is pretty astounding…