Architecture Archive

This is just the start of compiling posts on the subject of architecture.  Blogger has recently changed their "look" (boy, I hate that they change things) so now it's much harder to find old posts and add them to this archive... but I'll try, slowly.  Please visit again.

ACCESSIBILITY
Form Follows Legislation

AIA (American Institute of Architects)
Barbie's New Dream House... Kinda

ARCHITECTS
Architect Wins Genius Grant (Jeanne Gang)
Gehry in New Orleans (Frank Gehry)
The Importance of Drawing (Michael Graves)
Architecture and Cardboard Architecture (Rem Koolhaus)
Avast! Readers, Sugar Trade (Barthelemy Lafon)
Latrobe on Design v Drafting (B. H. Latrobe)
Color Dims... (Ricardo Legorreta)
Plaza d'Italia (Charles Moore)
The Architecture of Palladio (Andrea Palladio)
A Little News (Starchitects) 
Set Designer's Life (Frank Lloyd Wright)
The Pritzker Prize and Fairness (Denise Scott Brown & Emily Morgan)
YES! (Emily Morgan)
The Ghost in the Theater (FLW)
Architectural Stories (Charles Rennie Mackintosh)

ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
Good Advice

ART
Stilty Coolness
Architecture and Cardboard Architecture
Building With Books
Sugar Trade

ARTS and CRAFTS STYLE
Museum Field Trip
Traveling

ARTS FUNDING
Million Muppets March

AWARDS
Architecture Rant
The Pritzker Prize and Fairness

BANKS
Timeless Versus Trendy Architecture

BEAUX ARTS
Joy of New Pencils

BLOGS
Interesting Architecture Blog

BOOKS
At Home (by Bill Bryson)
Sugar Trade (Orders from France, Kennedy)
Exact Wordiness (Vitruvius)
A Grab Bag (Architecture, Gothic and Renaissance, Smith)
Latrobe on Design v Drafting (The Journal of B. H. Latrobe)
Book and Film Update (The Architecture of Happiness)
(What to) Coloring Book (Pantone: The 20th Century in Color)
The Pritzker Prize and Fairness (Learning from Las Vegas)
Earth Day 2014 (my "green" theater book)

BRICK
Lite Bricks

BUILDING CODE and LEGISLATION
Form Follows Legislation
Building Codes

CAD (Computer Aided Drawing and Design)
Monsterpiece Theater
A Peek into the Past

CARTOGRAPHY
Avast! Readers

CASINOS
Copy-Cat Architecture

CEMETERIES
Traveling (Victorian)

CHICAGO
Shop Local for Architects

CHOOSING an ARCHITECT
Shop Local for Architects

CITIES (also see "Dallas," "Chicago" etc.)
Set Design Research (Minneapolis)
Gehry in New Orleans
Plaza d'Italia (New Orleans)
Garland's Residential Idea Book (Garland TX)

CLIMATE CONTROL
Beating the Heat with Architecture

COLOR
Color Dims...
Chip-It!
Two Views - One Kitchen
(What to) Coloring Book

COLLEGE BUILDINGS
Taking Best Advantage of a Building Site

COMPUTER DRAFTING (CAD)
End of an Architectural Era
Catch Up

CONTINUING EDUCATION
Form Follows Legislation
Monsterpiece Theater

CREATIVITY
Where Good Ideas Come From
Dreaming Up Ideas
Taste for Makers
Idea Juicing
The Creative Process
To Do

CRITICISM
Follow-Up Criticism
Importance of Critics (Ada Louise Huxtable)
New Architecture Critic

DALLAS
Architecture Rant
Timeless Versus Trendy Architecture
Memory Lane
A Little News
Exploring Downtown Dallas
Architectural Field Trip
Dallas Ferris Wheel
New Venue

DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT
A Little News
Good Art Review Site
New Venue

DALLAS FAIR PARK
Timeless Versus Trendy Architecture
The Texas State Fair

DALLAS HOTELS
Architectural Field Trip

DALLAS THEATER CENTER
Architecture Rant
Set Designer's Life

DECAY
Decaying Film Palaces

DESIGN PROCESS
Idea Juicing
The Creative Process
Latrobe on Design v Drafting

DOMES
Latrobe on Design v Drafting

DRAFTING
End of an Architectural Era
Archaic Technologies
Latrobe on Design v Drafting
60 Years of Architectural Drafting

DRAWING (also see SKETCHING/RENDERING)
Joy of New Pencils
The Importance of Drawing

ECONOMICS
The Sugar Trade

FIRE
Building Codes
Architectural Stories

FIRE STATIONS
Fire Station # 4

GARLAND, TX
Garland's Residential Idea Book

GIFTS (for architecture fans)
Holiday Gifts

GOOD DESIGN
Taste for Makers
Garland's Residential Idea Book

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
Architectural Stories

GRAFFITI
Contemporary Art Rooted in Tradition
More Information on Spray-Paint Delft Tile
Banksy

GRAPHICS
Architecture in the Mail

GYPSY CARAVANS
Interesting Architecture Blog

HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Garland's Residential Idea Book
A Peek into the Past

HOUSES / HOUSING
Book Lover's House
Two Views - One Kitchen
Stilty Coolness
Terrific TED Talk (Dan Phillips)
Gehry in New Orleans
Garland's Residential Idea Book
A Peek into the Past

HOUSTON
Houston's The Orange Show

HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning)
Beat the Heat with Architecture

IMHOTEP
End of an Architectural Era

INSPIRATION
Dreaming Up Ideas
Copy-Cat Architecture

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM
Timeless Versus Trendy Architecture
Good Art Review Site
Kimbell Art Museum
Opening and Other Up-Dates

LEGOS
Architectural Stories

LIFE STYLE
Good Advice

LIGHTING
Lite Bricks
Next Generation Light Bulbs

MATERIALS (also see "Unconventional Materials")
Architectural Materials and Recycling

MODERNISM
California Modern

MOVIE THEATERS
Decaying Film Palaces
Glory Days of Film

MUSEUMS (also see Kimbell Art Museum, Nasher etc.)
Architecture and Cardboard Architecture (Kunst Hall, Rotterdam)
Catch-Up (Perot Museum of Science and Nature)

NASHER SCULPTURE GALLERY
Good Art Review Site

NATURE
Man-Made Environment and Nature

OFFICES
Office Environment

OUTSIDER ART/ARCHITECTURE
Outsider Art and Architecture
Houston's The Orange Show

PAINT
Chip-It!

PARTHENON
Timeless Versus Trendy Architecture

PHILLIPS, Dan
Terrific TED Talk

PHOTOGRAPHY (architectural)
Two Views - One Kitchen

POST-MODERNISM
Timeless Versus Trendy Architecture

PROPORTIONS
Proportions

QUOTES
Quotable Quotes (Tadao Ando)

RECYCLING
Architectural Materials and Recycling

REMODEKING
Garland's Residential Idea Book

RESEARCH
Research Libraries

RESIDENTIAL DESIGN
The Architecture of Palladio
At Home (At Home, by Bill Bryson)

RHYTHM
Music, Architecture, and War

SCHEDULING
Drowned in Work

SCHOOLS
Follow-Up Criticism

SCULPTURE
The Texas State Fair

SEISMIC DESIGN
Building Codes

SITE DESIGN
Taking Best Advantage of a Building Site

SKETCHING/RENDERING (also see DRAWING)
Watercolor Sketching
Traveling
The Importance of Drawing
A Brand New Boise Opens! (Bernini drawings and models)

SKYLINE
Memory Lane

SOLAR DESIGN
Good Art Review Site

STAIRS
Speaking of Research...

STARCHITECTS
A Little News

STICKLEY
Museum Field Trip

STILT HOUSES
Stilty Coolness

STYLES
Steampunk Living
The Sugar Trade
Garland's Residential Idea Book

SUSTAINABILITY
Nice Spring-y Squidoo Page
Good Art Review Site
Terrific TED Talk
Earth Day 2014 (my "green" theater book)

SYMBOLISM
The Political Power of (Set) Design

TECHNOLOGY
End of an Architectural Era

TERMS/VOCABULARY
Architectural Dictionary

THEATERS
Architecture Rant
Set Designer's Life
Shop Local for Architects
New Venue

TIMELESSNESS
Timeless Versus Trendy Architecture

TRAILER HOMES
Fantastic Theater Set!

UNCONVENTIONAL MATERIALS
Amazing Architecture/Sculpture
Architecture and Cardboard Architecture
Building With Books

VACATION
Busman's Holiday

VICTORIAN
Better Example

WATER
Plaza d'Italia

WEATHER
Horrible Collision of Architecture, Theater... and Wind

WOMEN in ARCHITECTURE
Architect Barbie
Barbie's New Dream House... Kinda
Architect Wins "Genius" Grant
The Pritzker Prize and Fairness (Denise Scott Brown & Emily Morgan)
YES! (Emily Morgan)

WOOD
Wood in Architecture
Museum Field Trip