Following on from yesterday’s Dermot Bannon Post; here’s another snippet from his forthcoming book ‘Love Your Home’: “Money spent on an architect at the design stage is potentially €100,000 saved 10 years down the road.” What Dermot is referencing are Read More …
Attributed to Winston Churchill and then (in)famously said at a 2008 Wall Street Journal Forum by Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Heres’ the YouTube clip if you’d Read More …
Well it really feels as if I’m back in the fold now and as Michael Kourtellos at 3DToolBox said recently “maybe you have to go back somewhere in order to go forwards”. The result is that the recently published Kindle Read More …
Here’s a short and snappy tip; you’ll need to be confident in 3D for this (it’s not a full working tutorial just a short precis of what you’ll need to do): How to draw a suspended stove You know the Read More …
When amending a drawing you need to think carefully about whether it’s quicker to change the model or simply to draw on the Viewport annotation. For example, say you need to change the number of vertical mullions on a window. Read More …
Vectorworks- 101 Tips and Tricks by Mark Stephens RIBA MRIAI Launch of new Vectorworks book on Kindle: ‘Vectorworks – 101 Tips and Tricks’ Mark Stephens has trained literally thousands of users across the world to become more proficient with Vectorworks Read More …
It’s almost here; yours truly has been beavering away on a long overdue project and at last it’s finally ready (almost). Vectorworks: 101 Tips and Tricks will be an e-book initially available on Kindle with other platforms soon to follow. Read More …
I’ve written previously on the concept of Architect as Story Teller and it’s interesting to see this theory in action now that that I have two of the ‘stories’ currently on site and under construction. The residential work I concentrate Read More …
So let’s now put everything together over the previous chapters and see how these principles apply to two real-life projects. The projects are proposed houses in rural Ireland, both interestingly in similar areas with a similar brief for each. One Read More …
So, I’ve introduced the concept that every good house should have an overriding ‘big idea’ – something that separates it from the rest. In essence, in the same way that Twitter breaks the world down into 140 characters, you should Read More …
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