Watch the full episode. See more Citizen Architect.

If you missed seeing this on PBS here is the link. This is such a good thought provoking video that I thought I should share. Please note that it is only available for viewing through this link until 9/20/2010. Enjoy it and hopefully you too will find it inspiring.

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This is interesting interview with Santiago Calatrava. It reminds of a twitter post that I made about a year ago and really speaks to it’s essence. “To be considered great architecture it should have a soul and not that of the architect that designed it, but for the purpose for which it was designed.” cdv

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A Walk through Atlanta

by cvandevere on August 9, 2010

On a cool beautiful fall day in October 2006 I walked for about two hours from mid town Atlanta to downtown and back. This a series of photographs of what I saw during my walk. As architects we tend to look at details of buildings and how these buildings fit into their environment.

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Fireworks over Marietta, GA

by cvandevere on August 9, 2010

Here is my first YouTube video. This was made from a series of photographs that I took July 4th, 2009 in Marietta, Georgia. I used Google’s Picasa to create the video. The photos were taken with my Canon 50D on a tripod, manual exposure in bulb mode, shutter speed varied 1-12+ seconds, 200 ISO speed, and a 50mm f/1.4 lens.

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City Shots – Night Skyline

by cvandevere on August 5, 2010

Atlanta’s midtown skyline at night from Piedmont Park.

Copyright © Craig D. VanDevere

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City Shots – Reflections

by cvandevere on August 5, 2010

1201 West Peachtree Street and 1180 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia

This one of my favorite photographs. What I like the best is the juxtaposition of 1201 West Peachtree, designed by architect Phillip Johnson in the foreground, it’s reflection, and 1180 Peachtree Street designed by the architectural firm of Pickard Chilton. This was taken in the fall of 2006 as a series of City Shots.

This is the top of 1180 Peachtree Street

Looking up the side of 1180 Peachtree Street.

All photographs are Copyright © Craig D. VanDevere

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So what is this BIM thing anyway?

November 19, 2009

I recently asked a local agency director if they had any plans for requiring the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for their upcoming building program and he honestly responded that he did not even know what building information modeling was. What I realized is that while we as architects and designers are looking at [...]

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Hello world!

September 12, 2009

Welcome to VanDevere & Associates, Inc. Architecture new site and blog. Architecture is a communicative discipline so I feel that a website with the personality of a blog will be more creative, inspiring and interactive. So sit back, enjoy and participate in this dynamic process.

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