Photographer Rowdy Winters captured this breathtaking moment while standing in the middle of the Rio Grande River at Big Bend National Park in Texas with Mexico 15 feet to his right. He pointed his camera up at the night sky and caught the brilliance of a shooting star and the Milky Way. The long exposure even allowed him to pick up the starlight reflecting in the water. It’s an awesome photo of an amazing place. Photo by Rowdy Winters (http://ift.tt/18oFfjl).
There’s so much to learn about architecture, yet so little time. The smart architect knows to have a variety of sources for their architectural knowledge, and that’s why we’ve put together a shortlist of our Top 12 Architecture Channels on Youtube, and picked some of their best videos for you to see. Read more to find out the best architecture videos, from sketching and rendering tutorials to architecture documentaries.
If you are interested in urban planning and the development of housing in major cities, this one’s for you. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) looks for innovative design and construction strategies and organizes conferences, as well as monthly interviews with leading architects – most recently, Bjarke Ingels!
The Chicago Architecture Foundation shares short stories on Chicago’s most iconic buildings. With historical photographs and research material as well as interesting commentaries, the foundation puts the great history of Chicago’s architecture at your fingertips.
Like travelling with your architecture-geek friends? In #donotsettle, two young graduates from TU Delft experiment with architectural vlogging, showing you around cities, exploring their urban environment, and visiting newly built projects. A fun and refreshing break.
Harvard GSD is well-known for its prestigious guest lecturers, including Zaha Hadid, Herzog & DeMeuron, and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. And you can see them online. Here is a sneak peak at Toyo Ito’s recent lecture “Tomorrow’s Architecture.”
Presented by Polish architecture historian Radosław Gajda, this videoblog looks at the iconography of buildings and the way contemporary architecture can reinterpret architectural traditions. Don’t miss his video on the Mies van der Rohe Award-winning Szczecin Philharmonic Hall.
If you want to improve your sketching skills, check out TheModmin’s tutorials, and learn about perspective, lineweight, shadows, people, trees and ink texturing among others.
Arbuckle Industries is a mixed-media video production company run by Ian Harris and David Krantz. Their first documentary, Archiculture (2013), received its worldwide premiere on ArchDaily and takes a critical look at the architectural studio. Through a collection of interviews conducted for the documentary and other initiatives since, Arbuckle’s videos feature the likes of Pritzker Prize winners Thom Mayne, Zaha Hadid, Richard Meier and Shigeru Ban, alongside many others.
If you wish to master renderings, look no further. This channel can teach you how to realistically portray grass, water reflections, and night scenes. Photoshop will have no more secrets for you.
The software company offers the most complete tutorials on its programs (AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Revit, Maya).
Nick Senske shares tutorials from his courses at Iowa State University, covering a wide range of IT skills. It includes the use of smart layout on InDesign, Rhino, Maxwell texture mapping, and Photoshop Digital Renderings. His series of lectures on Collage Sections and Elevations are particularly worth seeing.
How to Architect is all about facts. Each video covers 7 subjects about construction elements, architectural history, and iconic buildings: a didactic and straightforward way to learn (again).
Last but not least, don’t forget ArchDaily’s own Youtube channel! Here you will find interviews with our favorite architects and coverage of major architectural events, such as this year’s Moscow Urban Forum and Venice Architecture Biennale.
Which YouTube Channels do you look to for inspiration or education? Let us know in the comments! And if you’re looking for more helpful architecture tutorials, check out our crowdsourced list at the article below.
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Laid out over the valley, at an altitude of 1,500 meters, the house has a strong relationship with the local nature, abundant throughout most of the year. That allow for autonomy in generating energy. The main premise of the project is to make energy consumption efficient while simultaneously offer comfort to the user, beginning with the simplicity of contact with the local nature.
It’s FSC wooden pre-fab structure, to the point that it remains supported on the land through some pillars, without directly touching the ground, responds well to the necessity of building on a rugged piece of land, far from the city and difficult access. On this, the external ground is a deck also made in certified wood and the internal floor is clay brick made from the local soil. From this same soil the house is made.
The divisors of the house are wood frames with woolen insulation of PET which makes it an environmentally correct house. Frames with double windows guarantee the comfort and ventilation. The roof is a wooden platform with vegetation which integrates the house with its surroundings rue composing the area of the land shaded by it. In the vast landscape, the house create a link between that which is built and that which is natural.
Nevada – USA (by Howard Ignatius)
Soriano & Arquitectos Asociados (S&Aa) has unveiled its plans for ‘The Pitcher’s Mounds’ a project that received fourth place in a competition to design the Tainan Asia-Pacific International Baseball Stadiums and Training Centers in Taiwan.
In an effort to “return to the origins” of the playing field—a horizontally-based, natural concept rather than the vertical and enclosed idea of a stadium—the design of the complex is conceptualized as an urban garden.
A sports stadium for baseball, soccer, or swimming is not a building. But a landscape instead. Hence, a set of sports stadiums is an urban park, an urban garden – explains the architect in a media release.
The stadiums, training facilities, and other related programs are arranged in “a landscape of soft hills and waves,” with each program occupying its own ellipse-shaped area. These ellipses of varying sizes are arranged and layered according to three subcategories: natural landscapes, such as lakes and gardens, artificial landscapes, like stadiums, and circulation, which includes pedestrian paths and vehicle roads.
One main pedestrian road cuts across the entire site and leads to the main stadium, which is placed on a large hill, underneath it is where players and administration spaces will be located. This hill will be created from existing soil removed from the site so that no external soil supply is necessary. Furthermore, no soil will be taken from the site, thereby creating an equilibrium of material.
Additionally, the roof structure of the main stadium will not be one continuous or solid piece, but rather, a conglomeration of variously sized pieces resembling clouds or tree leaves, which, together, will cover all of the stands. These pieces will furthermore be translucent, so as to allow for natural lighting, and to lower electricity expenses.
News via Soriano & Arquitectos Asociados (S&Aa).
Who doesn’t like movies? They make us dream, they influence us more than we can imagine!Of course, we all want to be the hero, the leading character on the big screen. And, in a way we are. We are playing the main role in our own movie, our life.
If we are not some celebrity the chances to see our life in theaters are low. Of course, we can make our own show, and thanks to the internet we can share it with others .But will it be a box office success? Until you start it, you might wanna know if something similar was already made.
Take just now this fun, quick quiz and find out which movie is actually based on your life!
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Today is Bastille Day, a French national holiday that celebrates the country’s reinvention as a republic. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille in Paris on 14 July 1789 – a symbolic moment for the French Revolution.
We’re joining the celebrations with a look back at some of the best French houses from our archive, including a dilapidated barn turned into a holiday home using traditional hemp-based plaster (pictured) and a villa designed to look like a bump in the landscape. See more French houses on Dezeen »
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