tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174618222024-09-09T22:18:24.014+02:00architecture blog, wits universityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17461822.post-1156164444273395182006-08-21T14:35:00.000+02:002006-08-21T15:50:50.390+02:00

Not a complete list but some of the more important commands and their default shortcuts. BOLD items were covered in today's lecture.F3 SNAPPING ON/OFFF8 ORTHO ON/OFFA, *ARCAA, *AREAAL, *ALIGNAR, *ARRAY-AR, *-ARRAYB, *BLOCK-B, *-BLOCKBH, *BHATCHBO, *BOUNDARY-BO, *-BOUNDARYBR, *BREAKC, *CIRCLECH,

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The Museum of Bad Art has a great collection of REALLY BAD ART. Here's what they have to say about the painting above:A remarkable fusion of ski resort and wolf puppy -- stoical in his yellow-eyed silence, frozen beneath the ice-capped peak, Dog elequently challenges the viewer to rexamine old concepts of landscape.

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The Herbert Evans sale is on at the moment- now is a good time to stock up on pens,pencils,canvas,brushes,paints etc. at anything from 25% to 40% off the marked price- well worth a visit at Rosebank Mall and Fourways Mall

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Most of your blogs have been registered- if you look off to the left, you'll see a list- please make sure your blog is on that list. If it isn't, leave a comment in this thread for me to add your blog. There are 2 reasons why it might not be on the list:you haven't left a comment yetyou have left a comment but I couldn't access your blogIf I couldn't access your blog (ie. you left a comment but

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Some of the software mentioned in today's lecture:Elephant's Dream website (the short film)SketchUp (free version available)AutoCADUbuntu Linux (free operating system financed by Mark Shuttleworth)The OpenCD (free software for windows computers)

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The first hand-in for this class is to create a blog for yourself by following these instructions (click on the link to see the instructions). You will use this blog to post the work you do during the year.To see the blogs being run by the second year class, go to the main second year blog spacemakers and follow the links in the left column.Leave a comment on this post with the address of your

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That's it, really. Decent resolution pics for the whole of Johannesburg have finally arrived.(Just a note: interesting that the whole car park is empty in this photo except for outside the architecture building)

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A team at SABMiller are raising funds for CIDA City Campus as part of an 'Apprentice' style challenge. What's interesting for a South African project is that they are using a blog and auctioning beadwork on eBay to raise the money.Now as architecture students I know you're just rolling in cash to spend on things like this :) But if you know some corporates who might be interested, drop some hints

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Well,Friday is the date for final submissions for computers. So that's a working blog, the picasso project and 2 revit projects from the following 3:your own housechinese clubthe building for your discourse projectSubmission by 17:00 on Friday 2 June.Clock is ticking!!Please check that your blog is in my blogroll on the right hand side of this page, if not, leave a comment on this thread for me

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As promised in today's lecture, a tutorial explaining the process for this image. Marcday over at Pushpullbar has developed this incredible technique for turning SketchUp drawings into renderings using an image editor. Definitely worth taking a look at. This process uses a Ruby script called display template that is available here.

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Pushpullbar is an architecture and design forum. It started out as a Sketchup forum, and is still a good source for information and tips for SketchUp (like how to do this). But where it really excels is in the input you can get for design projects. There is a forum for discussing projects in progress, a photographic forum and database of architects, and a travel forum (HINT: they are are in need

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As promised, some links from the lecture:Tradigital imaging tutorial by Jim LeggittLuke Chandremasinghe's Institute of Ideas...and finally the 5-star forum at PushPullBar

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Justin, Richard, Feige and probably a few others in the class are trying out multiple blogs- seperating different types of work into different blogs. Freshblog has published a series of hacks for blogger and one of them (by Oldcola) explains how to keep multiple blogs and have them post to a 'master blog' so that you can have all your posts in one place as well as having them on sub-blogs. If you

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This is a piece I wrote a while ago at another blog I contribute to- but is worth while for you to look at if you want to back up your work on your own blog.RSS is a technology that can do some pretty amazing things for you once you grasp it. We've written about RSS extensively at TomorrowConnecting, covering the more common uses. I want to look at one unconventional service that uses RSS.

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As promised, notes from Friday about promoting traffic to your blog. If you want to write content that attracts people to your blog, check out this post about traffic generating blogging styles (thanks to Mike for the tip).3 ways of getting your blog's name out there:1. Network- link your blog to your friends, leave intelligent comments on blogs that you enjoy reading- include a link to your blog

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posted projects: goldring vicklingYour next assignment is due for the 21st of April 2006, at the beginning of the lecture.Using Revit and the supplied rough plans, you will be drawing up a model of Chinese United Mansions (Chinese Club) by Wilhelm Pabst. Pabst was an immigrant architect, who worked under Mies van der Rohe and Poelzig in Berlin before coming to South Africa in the mid 1930s. His

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Lludd and a few other people were having trouble loading images onto the Blogger servers. They can sometimes be slow, but fortunately there are quite a few sergices that will let you hsot your images elsewhere and link to them.Imageshack is one of these services. After uploading your image to Imageshack, you will be given a string of code to paste into your blog page, that will link to the image.

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After months of rumours about Autodesk being interested, @last announced this morning that they have been purchased by google. Over at Tomorrowconnecting, a local tech blog, I've posted some initial thoughts about this. What do you think?

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De Stijl was a 20th century Dutch art movement (also a White Stripes album).I'm blogging about art history today because David White reminded me about an aspect of De Stijl that is relevant to your current project: The progression from 2d to 3d art.Piet Mondrian's paintings (like the one above)are typical of the works of this movement. Later on, architects and designers began using the principals

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Helpline launches today...If you need any help with the software used in this class, then click across and leave a comment- the staff and your fellow students will try and solve your problems.Also, don't hesitate to jump in and help out if you have solved the problem for yourself.

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I've blogged about Peter Fattinger's design- build work before, tonight there is a lecture by him at the Drill Hall- definitely well worth checking out (click on the map for directions).

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There were quite a few questions last week about scaling textures etc. in SketchUp. I have written two tutorials that deal with the finer details of textures in SketchUp:Wrapping a texture onto a curved surface: This is probably the situation where you would use the 'position texture'features of SketchUp most often.Perpendicular mapping tutorial part one and two looks at creating, scaling and

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First things first: If your blog is not listed in the roll on the right, you need to log in at blogger and make sure there is at least one post in your blog, then leave a comment here for me to add your blog to the list. You can get e-mail updates of the whole class' blogs by signing up here, and e-mail updates of this site by signing up here. On to the tutorial...There are 2 key ideas around

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On Friday afternoon, the first years built their shelters on the volleyball courts, which would be their homes for the weekend. Here are a few of the photos (click on them to enlarge).First from around 14:30:Just before 16:00 (around the time Occupancy Certificates were meant to be issued, with the clouds building in the south-west):My last set are from around 16:45 (just when the rain was

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Blogger is a free service for hosting Blogs on the Internet. This year you will be using Blogger to post your work and to look at each other's work in the net (some of last year's blogs are linked here). This post will run through the steps of setting up a blog and making your first post. Click on any of the images to view a larger version.1. Go to www.blogger.com. Click on the orange arrow that

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