The Green Footstep tool allows you to learn how much your commercial or residential building will contribute to global warming. It’s the brainchild of Architecture 2030 founder Edward Mazria and the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Green Footstep
The Green Footstep tool allows you to learn how much your commercial or residential building will contribute to global warming. It’s the brainchild of Architecture 2030 founder Edward Mazria and the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Danish Oprah
During her first trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, Oprah is invited inside the Holscher family's home. Watch as she tours the organized kitchen, bright living space and small kids' bedroom. Why Danish people prefer to live simply in small spaces.
http://www.oprah.com/media/20091021-tows-stine-home-tour
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Bobbin Bicycles
rain bonnet!
non-dorky helmet
sailor reflective vest
vintage-esque pannierBike gear that is actually cute! Yeah Bobbin!
Friday, October 9, 2009
comic cliche!
this is TOO funny!
more good ones at Cotton Factory
there's one that says "i'm so vegan i bleed tree sap"
classic
Thursday, October 8, 2009
continuing edu @ MIT
ok, so...i found out that MIT has a thing called OpenCourseWare which are free online course materials in all types of subjects including areas of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, etc. It includes the following classes:
Architecture:
also:
16.982 Bio-Inspired Structures
As taught in: Spring 2009
A smart joint design inspired by a shore bird's morphing wing structure. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Course Features
Course Description
This course is offered for graduate students who are interested in the interdisciplinary study of bio-inspired structures. The intent is to introduce students to newly inspired modern advanced structures and their applications. It aims to link traditional advanced composites to bio-inspired structures and to discuss their generic properties. A link between materials design, strength and structural behavior at different levels (material, element, structural and system levels) is made. For each level, various concepts will be introduced. The importance of structural, dynamic, thermodynamic and kinetic theories related to such processing is highlighted. The pedagogy is based on active learning and a balance of guest lectures and hands-on activities.
MAS.863 How to Make (Almost) Anything
As taught in: Fall 2002
Photo of the MIT Media Lab waterjet cutter at work. (Courtesy of Prof. Neil Gershenfeld and Prof. Issac Chuang.)
Course Description
This course provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems, including CAD/CAM/CAE; NC machining, 3-D printing, injection molding, laser cutting; PCB layout and fabrication; sensors and actuators; analog instrumentation; embedded digital processing; wired and wireless communications. This course also puts emphasis on learning how to use the tools as well as understand how they work.
11.329 Social Theory and the City
As taught in: Fall 2005
The 2004 Odunde Festival on South Street in Philadelphia, PA illustrates one way that communities tie their identities to urban spaces. (Image courtesy of Annis Whitlow.)
Course Features
Course Description
This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city's architecture and spaces. It is grounded in classic or foundational writings about the city addressing such topics as the public realm and public space, impersonality, crowds and density, surveillance and civility, imprinting time on space, spatial justice, and the segregation of difference. The aim of the course is to generate new ideas about the city by connecting the social and the physical, using Boston as a visual laboratory. Students are required to present a term paper mediating what is read with what has been observed.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Logos
Breathtaking & Creative Logos
http://www.noupe.com/ is a pretty good website for Illustrator and Photoshop inspirations, etc :D
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