November 2009

  • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

    By sarajean on 11/8/09 5:45pm
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    Don’t you just love books that are titled “101…Whatever”? You know the material is going to be delivered in a fast, punchy way that will keep your interest, help you retain the material, and more than likely be entertaining. While this is fun for almost any genre (I can’t imagine how 101 Symptoms of the West Nile Virus would be much fun), it’s particularly helpful when you want to learn about something in an introductory way.

    101 Things I Learned in Architecture School is one such book. Matthew Frederick delivers clean and clear-cut definitions, diagrams, figures and explanations that explain the nuts and bolts of architecture in an easy to understand fashion.

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  • "Container Architecture: This Book Contains 6441 Containers"

    By monica on 11/4/09 10:47am
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    Container ArchitectureContainer ArchitectureWorking on the tenth floor of the Smith Tower I have a sweeping view from my office of the Port of Seattle. It's one of my favorite views in the city, with the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound in the background. But looking at the port, with hundreds of multi-color containers, they look like orange, blue and gray legos, stacked up on eachother, waiting to be shipped or moved or whatever it is that they do with those things, I do wonder what happens to those containers once they've been used? I mean, when it no longer serves it's purpose of transporting things, does it go to a graveyard of containers? Not necessarily.

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