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Projects Explained Through Architectural GIFs 

In order to explain projects and design decisions properly, architects must use often rely on creative representation techniques instead of words. It’s part of the job. The quality of drawings - simple, complex, or anything in between - is fundamental for the correct reception of the ideas. Digital media has enabled new ways of representation including animation and adding a new dimension in a single image: processes.

Animated gifs can provide the same amount of information in constructive terms as a section, program distribution as a diagram and main decisions as a master plan,  while at the same time showing the progress and chronology of the project. 

Follow the source link to learn more about these and other projects.

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A wild Niemeyer appeared! 🏃🏻‍♀️ (en Tripoli, Lebanon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnHxYNeAx7P1R8AHlHTx0CyLvQhgTHN3I_6u500/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ofqwapcdaahy

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Hello Archy! I am an architecture student and I will be visiting Lebanon this summer. Do you have any architectural recommendations or must-see's? Thanks, love your blog btw.

Thanks!

You can see previous projects in Lebanon previously featured following this link, here are six standouts that you should not miss:

Issam Fares Institute – American University of Beirut Zaha Hadid Architects

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What would you say are the highlights of modern architecture in middle east? And far east? We just don't see much of that in architecture school.

Too many! There are hundreds of important modern architecture buildings in the Middle East and the Far East. Here is a very small sample of modern and contemporary architecture in Asia:

Church on Light Tadao Ando

Heydar Aliyev Center Zaha Hadid

Burj Khalifa SOM

Master Plan for Chandigarh Le Corbusier

Erdos Museum MAD

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban Louis Kahn

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Hi Archy, I am wondering if you know something about the history of bridges in architecture. Or styles of architecture through the construction of bridges.

Stepping Stone Bridge 15th Century 

That response would be worthy of a book (or more). Start with the websites below and good luck!

The Evolution of Bridges

History of Bridges

Researching the History of Bridges

A Look at Bridges: A Study of Types, Histories, andthe Marriage of Engineering and Architecture

Pont du Gard, 1st Century

Ponte Vecchio 1345

Brooklyn Bridge 1883

Gateshead Millennium Bridge  2001

Millau Viaduct 2004

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Visualización Escuela Waldorf

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Presentación Final Escuela Waldorf

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Maquetas Escuela WALDORF

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Escuela WALDORF Lîlâ K´ERENDARHU

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Contexto y Avance de Volumetría

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Análisis del usuario: remodelación Escuela Waldorf Lîlâ K’erendahu

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Análisis de terreno.

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El cartón como material constructivo.

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The Hannover Principles       Design for Sustainability

There are a lot of things to consider while designing, specially buildings. What the Hannover principles are proposing was a very accurate formula then (1992) and is still a very relevant one. Its sustainable perspective is ageless and timeless, but not effortless. Sustainability is not only about bioclimatic orientation, creating a comfortable temperature inside a building, using renewable sources of energy, and collecting rain water. It is about all this, and more. As Teresa Heinz mentions on her introduction, sustainability is creating an ecosystem that works between humanity and nature. A system where materials circulate, and design objects have only two ending points: going back to earth and turning into soil, or upcycled back into the industry.

  As designers, we have the responsibility of respecting nature’s requests and needs, as much as the ones of our users. The coexistence of both is the key to their survival, due to the symbiotic relationship they now share. Even though it is hard to have a relevant restorative effect to the damage done to mother nature, through a good design we can aspire to diminish some of the negative impact we generate.

 Finally, I would like to talk about the last principle, where McDonough talks about sharing knowledge. As humans we sometimes tend to be selfish, think that we own the good ideas we come up with. Yet, good ideas should be shared, so they reach and influence more people. Knowledge will always be power, and power is supposed to serve people, and people are supposed to serve nature.  

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Pabellón Escuela Selgascano en Kibera

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Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things By William McDonough

When talking about society and environment, there are so many things involved, and everything is somehow related. There are specially many things and situations that have gone wrong. Throughout history, human kind has chosen poorly many times, yet we keep evolving and improving our ways. Despite our good intentions, we sometimes do not realize the harm innovation may cause, and other times we do not care. To this day, I’ve always thought the main problems with humanity are ignorance and indifference. I enjoyed reading this sermon, because it reminded me of several aspects of life and architecture that brought me to this career.

 I used to believe I could change the world, even though I know realize it is not as easy ass I hoped for, I have the certainty that I can and should still try to help as much as life allows me. Environmental exploitation may be an issue hard to address in the practice of architecture, but this doesn’t mean we cannot try. Sustainable architecture is a current that keeps becoming more and more popular, for it is necessary and efficient.  There are so many things we can do as architects, as friends, as consumers, as humans.

 I guess we could say “the dream” is to be as good architect as to have as much requesting room as McDonough had in his project in Poland. And that clients understand the environmentalist ideals I hope one day to reflect. Sustainable architecture, good education and open minded clients are the secret recipe for the encouragement of a better relationship between construction and mother earth.

 For me, the climax point in the text is the next extract of it, “we are creating a vast industrial machine, not for living in, but for dying in.”. McDonough takes here a known architectural reference, everything he mentions prior in the text, and sums it up into one striking, truthful phrase. There is no going back into humanity’s history, but forward and better, into a social and environmental justice.