The selection of books from RIBA Books will help you address the climate emergency and ensure a sustainable future. EnerPHit: A Step by Step Guide to Low Energy Retrofit In order to meet UK Carbon reduction commitments for 2020 and… Continue Reading
In his book “Architecture as a global system”, Peter Raisbeck identifies 4 categories of architects in our current global system: scavengers, tribes, warlords and megafirms. Arguably, architecture is at an end because of the commodification of the services that architects… Continue Reading
By Design is a GRAPHISOFT’s original digital series that explores how a new wave of architects and AEC professionals are pushing the boundaries of creativity and collaboration in ways never before possible. A revolution is happening in the field of… Continue Reading
Parametric Design for Architecture is a new book by Wassim Jabi from Welsh School of Architecture (Cardiff University). Before several months we make an interview with Mr Jabi regarding this book, where he talks not only about this book, but… Continue Reading
Here we present the list of 10 must have architecture books. 1. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order (Francis D.K. Ching; 1975) This book is classic introduction to the principles of architecture. It helps both students and practicing architects understand the basic vocabulary of… Continue Reading
This is a preview of Gnomon trainings that can be used by architects. They refer to perspective drawing, sketching, matte painting, 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, and so on. The Gnomon Workshop is famous for its professional trainings for artists,… Continue Reading
Nowadays, more and more architectural firms use Revit for buildings modeling. BIM has become an architectural buzzword. In a Cgarchitect’s survey on Software Usage Changes, in period from 2006 to 2009 Revit usage grew by 10% (from 7% to 17%).… Continue Reading
Yes is More is unique book written by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, head of the well-known architectural practice BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). It’s a manifesto of architecture, a comic book about architectural evolution told in a simple way, in the… Continue Reading
Because of its simplicity, SketchUp is used in many fields especially architecture. But its simplicity is also a limiting factor in architectural design. So we find plugins that expand SketchUp functionality into this field. If you use SketchUp for the… Continue Reading
Architectural Inventions: Visionary Drawings represents works gathered by artists Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb. The book is in the form of architect’s sketchbook. The first 30 pages of the book are consisted of essays and rest are drawings. It’s like theoretical… Continue Reading