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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
Welcome to VanDevere & Associates, Inc. Architecture
If you are looking for an Architect that listens to your ideas, incorporates them during the design process, asks thought provoking questions about how you will use your space/building, then VanDevere & Associates, Inc. may be right for you.
If you think the design and building of your dreams and visions is an exciting process. VanDevere & Associates, Inc. is ready to help guide you through this process so that your project is a successful one.
Architecture is a communicative and visual discipline, so we feel that a website with the personality of a blog will be more creative, inspiring and interactive. So sit back, enjoy and participate in what I hope will be a dynamic process.
Change to fluorescent bulbs If every house in the United States changed all of the light bulbs in their house, that would be equivalent to taking one million cars off the streets.