Architecture
ARCHITECTURE AT TRITON
A recent Spring and Fall schedule of Triton’s architecture courses
MY CLASSES
ARC 210 – HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
A list to the earlier edition of my textbook.
An online compendium of American architecture, and a list of the world’s most popular buildings.
ARC 120 – BUILDING STEEL
A past class website
(2006), with concepts, activities and resources. The textbook
publisher’s companion site and additional links,
and the author’s.
A fabricator’s of castellated beams, joists and decking. Castellated beams have surprising applications.
A nice course website that I am “stealing” understanding from (on King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)
ARC 140 – BUILDING MECHANICAL,
ELECTRICAL & PIPING SYSTEMS
A past website (2009)
ARC
171 - DESIGN I
A past website for the class
>> CONTRAST, BALANCE and 10 other tools of composition
>> LINES, PATTERS and 9 other design elements
>> OUTSIDE-INS, PRE-SET PLANS, FAMILIAR SYMBOLS and 19 other design techniques
ARC 189 – COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
A past webiste (2006), for the class, with concepts, activities and resources
terminology
My growing vocabulary (I need to know this stuff!). A glossary from InteriorDezine mag.
A glossary of house panting and classic architectural terms one two three
The Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary of architecture
The Thames
and Hudson dictionary of 20th century architecture
Bill Bradley’s wonderful illustrated glossary www.builderbill-diy-help.com
resources
The Library of Congress’s architectural collections. The list includes the Historic American Buildings Survey
General resources from instructor’s Frank Heitzman’s website
United States Gypsum (USG) gypsum construction handbook
A list of Resources from Gerald Hines College of
Architecture at U of Houston
Architecture on About.com
Information for students on Cold-formed Steel
Structures. Their guide to Low-Rise
Residential Construction
Astoft’s collection of buildings
of England and buildings
in Denmark
Greatbuildings.com - searchable database (by building, architect,
city)
Bryn Mawr’s WORLD ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY SURVEY: Part I and Part II
AMERICANA
American
house styles as described in Wikipedia
buildings i like
As bumped into on the internet, as discovered in my history course (ARC
210 above), or otherwise serendipitously discovered. Enjoy!
A so-called Horizontal
Skyscraper
design awards
AIA Chicago’s yearly design
awards
PRODUCTS i like
CUPOLEX formwork
for floor slabs. I first read about it
in ENR
magazine.
technology & the trade
Some nice pictures of post &
beam structures
Commercial structures of the Vermont
Timbers Works
PERIODICALS
The Architectural Record
Magazine. Their compendium of office
buildings.
ArchitypeReview keeping
track of “innovation & advancement in world architecture”
Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians.
SAH JSTOR’s
architecture publications. Their
list of colleges with architectural
history programs.
Building Design & Construction
and Engineering-News
Record magazine
ARCHITECTS
List of Masters in the Swiss site VITRUVIO.CH
structural engineering
A nice pilot website discussing structural failures, http://failures.wikispaces.com/.
On this wikispace there is a great discussion
of the failure of marble cladding at the famous AMOCO
building
(now AON) in downtown Chicago. By the way, The 10,000 kips of scrap Carrara
marble went to many uses, I understand.
On a sale on www.craigslist.com
, I see that some went to “25 handicapped workers” who “carved the discarded
Italian Carerra marble ... into a variety of specialty items such as corporate
gifts and mementos including desk clocks and pen holders. “
The other end
product I am intimately familiar with – I worked at BP’s Whiting refinery, 
and
much of the stone mulching around their administrative buildings 
on Standard Avenue consist of the crushed
marble. And by the way, I was thrilled
to be able to tell this to my architectural history instructor Frank Heitzmann
when he broght up the subject in class.
OTHER STUFF
The National Building Museum in
Washington, D.C.
Mies van der Rohe’s crazy & wonderful Farnsworth
House building in 1950 in nearby Plano, Illinois.
Living
with Mies – a discussion form in the NYT about life in Mies van der Rohe
designed buildings
Some public
library designs – some cool, some not.
What’s missing is Moshe
Safdie’s Vancouver
Public Library
About dye-based and pigmented inksCase Foundations web page for the foundations of the Trump Tower on the Chicago River. I watched a fair bit of the work occur. Emporis’ list of Case’s work.
A blog that I like
Some architectural links in a University of Texas’ course on Ancient Rome: Pompei architecture and Roman Art & architecture