The wide array of digital design tools available to architects today can sometimes be a double-edge sword. While the variety of software is enabling architects to customize their workflows, having to switch from program to program can cause bottlenecks, hinder efficiency and make collaboration unnecessarily cumbersome. Prior to the creation of BIM, architects generated 3D…
While it is far from pretty, this building’s responsiveness to present and future programmatic needs may turn out to be a theatrical masterstroke.
Name each of these buildings and their architects from drawings alone.
“If a diagram is done right, it can engage the viewer as much as any perspective rendering.”
From 'Midnight in Paris' to 'Tron: Legacy': These films should be on every Architecture 101 syllabus .
Monument Valley by Ustwo is an award-winning game for iPhone and iPad that combines architecture and video games, in which the user journeys through puzzling isometric-perspective spaces. While architecture appears in the background of many games, architecture takes center stage in Monument Valley. Praised for its serene aesthetics and mind-bending optical puzzles, the game won…
Less is more: A simple rhombus is the basis for creating anything in this app. Isometric is an app f or aesthetically inclined architects and designers. In just a few taps, users can create beautiful designs by snapping rhombuses together on an isometric grid. Isometric is simple to learn and to create your own work with.…
In a series of conversations with prominent architects, Dezeen — in collaboration with Architizer — explores the memories of those involved in the late Zaha Hadid’s career, highlighting some of her most spectacular projects. In this brief interview, Richard Rogers looks back on Zaha’s persistence when she proposed and successfully built the London Aquatics Centre…
Building great architecture models takes a lot of practice and patience, but anyone can learn it.