Discussed Today:
Photo Winner: Jose Madrid (see photo below)
Intro Image: Dulux, Let’s Color | Fernanda Romano | link
Book of the week: Making Ideas Happen | link
Website of the week: Core77 | Industrial Designer Resource | link
Continue reading…
Discussed Today:
Intro Image: Field Chapel in Boedigheim | Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology | link
Video: Botanist | White Canvas | link
Book of the week: Sagmeister: Made You Look
Magazine of the week: eVolvo magazine | link
Website of the week: Kuhler | Color Theory | link
News: DCA | Freshwater Factory | link
Bagsac | Portable garden | link
Mauro Lecchi | Lamborghini Yacht Design | link
Discussed Today:
Video: Archiculture | link
Books of the week: 1. The Function of Ornament | Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo
2. Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
Website of the week: Cool Hunting | link
News: Tesla Eye | Concept Car | link
Pritzker Prize winner | Sanaa |link
Architect: Sanaa
Industrial Designer: Dieter Rams
Discussed Today:
Video: 555 Kubik | link
Book of the week: Graphic Design The New Basics | Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Phillips | link
Website of the week: Information Aesthetics | link
News: Thonet Chair | link and another link
Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro | link
Industrial Designer: Shane Schneck | link
Todays Topic: The Space In Between Design
Todays topics:
Book of the week: Change by Design | Tim Brown | link
Website of the week: The 99% | link
News: Contemplating the Void | Guggenheim competition | link
Architect: Marc Frohn | FAR Architects | link
Industrial Design Studio: Droog | link
Industrial Designer: Paolo Ulian | link
Intro Image: Polish Graffiti | link
Book of the week: NeubauWelt | link
Website of the week: 70 free fonts for designers | link
News: Alfa Romeo Pandio | link
Architect: David Adjaye
Industrial Designer: Michael Young
Topic: Design as a definition – Are you designing for yourself or the project?
Discussed Today:
Book of the week: World Changing, Alex Steffen (Amazon)
Website of the week: Archinect – www.archinect.com
News: Bjarke Ingles designs a chair as a collaboration with KIBISI.
Architecture: The High Line – Diller Scofidio + Renfro | website/movie
Industrial Design: Elisa Strozyk – from Designboom.
Today’s topic: Your Design Education – Ken Robinson – TED movie
A lot of information today…
Things to remember:
-Video: Blue and David Ellis, Link
-Haiti: The reponsibilities of a designer
-Book: Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough
-Website: Gigposters
-Architecture: BIG, website
-Industrial Design: Ran Amitai (via www.designboom.com)
-Topic: Blogs, Google Reader and … here is a list of mentioned blogs + the comic link
Archdaily
Architecturemnp
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Inhabitat
Super Colossal
Designboom
BldgBlog
City of Sound
Dezeen
-see you next week!
The first class. Today we covered the course structure and material for the semester. Here are a couple of useful items for the upcoming semester:
Fall Lecture Series:
-UH Architecture/ID lecture series: Click Here
-Rice School of Architecture Lecture Series: Click Here
-Rice Design Alliance Fall Lecture Series: Click Here
Class Material:
-Alex Roman Movie
-Bonus Photo: email to - uh.arch.1101@gmail.com
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