Archive for October, 2010
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Today I went to a lecture on Harry Weese by Robert Bruegmann. Lots of interesting biographical info on one of Chicago's least appreciated architectural greats, and got a chance to see the interior of Weese's rotund Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist. I thought the main hall would be more angular ...
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
...in critical mode:
The Kipnis Krew had their midterms today, and since the big guy made them all wear identical black bowler hats, I decided to make something of a statement - with eight years of uniformed service under my belt, I think I'm entitled to an opinion on the subject.Related ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Had my midterm review on Friday. Despite what looked like an impending disaster, I managed to survive it more or less unscathed.
The semester's studio, with SOM's Ross Wimer and UIC's own Julie Flohr, is all about parametric modeling. We are learning to use Gehry Technologies' Digital Project, a version of ...
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
I came across an interesting essay recently that sheds a bit of light on why free/open source software hasn't been more widely adopted in production environments. I've been using Inkscape, Blender and Gimp for much of my design work this semester, and I have to say Frederic Brooks nails it ...
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
An illustration of federal research and development spending:
(Click on the picture for larger image)Related posts:
Amusement city
The BFT redux
The BFT – take one
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