The Lizard Brain – Excuses For Late Submission
Can’t complete your assignment before the deadline? Blame it on the lizard brain. Can’t focus? Yes, it is the lizard brain’s fault. Confucius once said: “Journey of a thousand miles… Keep Reading
Architecture And Security
Image Source: Neatorama Neatorama latest post – The Enemy at the Door is a must read for all architects. We have architecture and sustainability, architecture and music, architecture and this… Keep Reading
Building Tomorrow’s Home Today
It has come to my attention that Google scanned decades upon decades of Popular Science magazines from the 1870s to the 2000s and offered them in full (every single page)… Keep Reading
How To Set Up A Small And Financially Stable Architecture Firm
How to set up an architecture firm? To be honest, I don’t own an architecture firm, probably never in the future, however, as I was once a draughtperson working in… Keep Reading
Time To Eat The Dog? The Real Guide To Sustainable Living
Am not a fan of sustainable living, to be honest, I don’t believe in the green architecture. Don’t get me wrong, sustainable architecture is a good idea, the trouble is… Keep Reading
Architects = Blueprint + Safety Helmet + Pointing Nowhere
Image Source: Daily Icon These images look like they are from a 1930’s brochure for an architecture course in every universities, unfortunately they are not. I kind of like how… Keep Reading
Too Poor To live, To Poor To Die
My friend told me if you can’t afford a big house; why not invest in a ‘small’ house. The value of the property is less than RM5000 (USD 1414). RM5000… Keep Reading
Compact Living and Small Spaces
Australia, a country where land is abundant as opposed to Singapore (reminds me of my Singaporean lecturer, I dislike him – a fresh graduate with zero working experience, he said… Keep Reading
China, A Country Without Memory
Image Source and Copyright: Sze Tsung Leong Clearing of the old and making way for the new, tall, definitely soulless apartment blocks. The McDonalization of architecture is China has lead… Keep Reading
Sustainable Building in Zimbabwe Modeled After Termite Mounds
Image Source: Inhabitat The Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe has no conventional air-conditioning or heating, yet stays regulated year round with dramatically less energy consumption, the building uses less than… Keep Reading
As Per Architect Specifications
image source: Notebook © 2005 James Wheare Blog reader James dropped a comment on the previous post “Architects are lower down the pecking order now!”, I thought it was really… Keep Reading
New York City – City of the Great Pyramids
Image Source: Dezeen Copyright: Jean Nouvel A new kid on the block – the 53 West 53rd Street by Jean Nouvel. French architect Jean Nouvel did it again; his latest… Keep Reading
Architects are lower down the pecking order now!
Listen up kids, Uncle Piers Gough from CZWG Architects had a Groovy interview at Building.co.uk, according to him, people used to sweep the construction site prior inspection, graduate architects has… Keep Reading
The Zero Gravity Pen
Image Source: Ebbe Brian Clark from Teaching Sells has this interesting story on simplicity: Back when NASA started launching manned spacecraft in the 1960s, they found out that the astronauts… Keep Reading