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Aren’t encyclopedia’s and dictionaries supposed to make things easier to understand? Consider the very first line in Wikipedia’s article on Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced [’pɜːsi bɪʃ ‘ʃɛli]) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the […]
Total time waster, totally awesome, Tetris with words.
If anyone is interested, Habitat for Humanity is looking for an architect to work pro bono to assist them in designing a house in a Georgia for a family of nine. Part of the Katrina relief effort. More info here
Ganges River Delta, Bangladesh:
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Escalante River, Utah:
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Yukon River Delta, Alaska:
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Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana:
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Happy Mole Day!
Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 10^23), which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry.
Transfixing video of color on the streets of San Francisco.
Definitely worth the download time.
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Reminds me of a previous post
From Dove:
“No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted.”
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Some thoughts from Ricardo Legorreta:
The true beauty in nature, as in human beings, cannot be discovered at once. the same is true for buildings. I enjoy the challenge of discovering them little by little, each time in a slightly different way. To me, architecture without a touch of mystery is not genuine; […]
I was looking through my sketchbook the other day and came across a quote I’d jotted down while reading The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson. The book tells the story of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair also known as The White City. At the close of the fair, the non-permanent […]
Some you know that I’ve been working with Habitat for Humanity for the past few years. I just wanted to shamelessly plug their website to encourage other people to check it out.
For the architects, its a great chance to swing a hammer and actually build a house by hand. But even for […]