Architecture has three basic values: function, structure, aesthetics. These three values interact in different qualities to form two categories of styles: Vernacular and High Style architecture. Vernacular architecture is passed down in local communities, and suites the basic functions …
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Many principles of architecture apply to computer programs. What you see on a computer screen affects you in the same way as buildings around you. Like buildings, computer programs create the environment that we exist in. Computer programs give us …
L. Baum, author of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was a Theosophist. He described an afterlife journey in his story about Dorothy, symbolism that referenced ancient temples and rituals. The book shows a gray Dorothy asleep on her bed. …
A study from the University of Notre Dame finds that the human mind compartmentalizes memories according to rooms and different spaces. The passage through doorways causes a lapse in memory. As you walk from one room to another room, …
Originally posted in 2011 Powerful computing on your weak mobile device is a short step away. It’s called cloud computing, and it can do so much more than what we have today. Cell phones will become thinner and much more …
by Walther Rivius or Ryff Principal among all well known and renowned Roman architects, artistic workers or builders: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio – Ten books of architecture and artistic construction. A key and introduction to all mathematic and mechanical art, and …
It is the most important financial decision anyone will ever make. Yet people are incredibly ignorant of the most basic rules. They have no clue how the mortgage industry really works. A mortgage company gives out money in exchange for …
Ever since the invention of the printing press and the rise of literature, architecture faded as a method of artistic communication. Victor Hugo lamented, “Architecture is dead, irrevocably dead, killed by the printed book.” Robert Venturi referenced Hugo’s …
(grabadonut– flickr/creative commons license) Nader Khalili won the 2004 Aga Khan Award for this simple and elegant solution for temporary shelters. Sandbags are stacked in circular plans until they form a dome and structure them with barbed wire to keep …
Architectural Record reports that an income gap is widening in China, due in part to the rich megastructures going up that only profit the upper class. It seems every day there’s another report of thousands brutally kicked out of …