I personally don't see an issue with using a graphic or two to tell the story of the project, or to give it context. You might put text on the image stating that this was created by someone other than yourself, and make it clear in an interview that…
United States Botanic Garden at the base of Capitol Hill (botanical is technically incorrect, as my former British botanic garden head would insist). The National Arboretum doesn't really have big greenhouses for public perusal its pretty ,much all…
As someone who relies heavily on computers, even in schematic, it certainly makes selling the project to the client and to a municipal board MUCH easier. The old 'cartoony' style of presentations left a lot to the imagination and individual interpre…
Brilliant. I was thinking this for a while as well. My line of thinking was to offer review services on some large scale projects, such as whats going on with the National Mall. We do have public input (taken with a grain of salt, I'm sure), but I t…
Interesting concept. I don't think that LAs generally have the egos to do stuff like this. But that explains why there are so many architects who do write their own books (or hire people to do it)
Check out this:
http://www.amazon.com/Clearing-Dis…
Kinda hard to comment on it. It's someones opinion. It really depends what you want to get out of it. I went to ESF 10 years ago for my BLA, and there are some good professors there, but that was 10 years ago. Things change. I'd recommend visiting e…
I've been there many times over the past decade (I don't live there), and have never seen them working. The urns below the museum, yes, the fountains on the stairs no. They had always been drained. Maybe they were just off for the day. I'm going up…