bkerr + architecture 43
Ask MetaFilter | What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
books popularization toread accounting advertising animation architecture art astronomy astrophysics blacksmithing children's-books-editorial cognitive-science comedy comics computer-science construction cooking design directing economics editing egyptology electrical-engineering fencing filmmaking firefighting forensic-entomology game-design geology glassblowing graphic-design gynecology homebrewing husbanding hydrology hypnosis immunobiology industrial-design integrated-circuit-design investing journalism juggling knitting language language-acquisition law lexicography librarianship linguistics lisp marine-ecology materials-science mathematics medicine microfabrication molecular-biology mortuary-science music-publishing nanotechnology neuroscience oceanography organizing painting pathology philosophy photography planning playwriting poetics population-biology preservation programming psychometrics psychotheraphy radio sales scenery-painting screenwriting speculation teaching trading typography ubicomp
october 2007 by bkerr
books popularization toread accounting advertising animation architecture art astronomy astrophysics blacksmithing children's-books-editorial cognitive-science comedy comics computer-science construction cooking design directing economics editing egyptology electrical-engineering fencing filmmaking firefighting forensic-entomology game-design geology glassblowing graphic-design gynecology homebrewing husbanding hydrology hypnosis immunobiology industrial-design integrated-circuit-design investing journalism juggling knitting language language-acquisition law lexicography librarianship linguistics lisp marine-ecology materials-science mathematics medicine microfabrication molecular-biology mortuary-science music-publishing nanotechnology neuroscience oceanography organizing painting pathology philosophy photography planning playwriting poetics population-biology preservation programming psychometrics psychotheraphy radio sales scenery-painting screenwriting speculation teaching trading typography ubicomp
october 2007 by bkerr
things magazine
things magazine humans spaces dwellings networks images design change future extinction apocalypse endings machines samplings art architecture prices towers secondlife games nostalgia explanations lack-thereof arcana passageways taxidermy cities tours wonders glass-houses
september 2007 by bkerr
things magazine humans spaces dwellings networks images design change future extinction apocalypse endings machines samplings art architecture prices towers secondlife games nostalgia explanations lack-thereof arcana passageways taxidermy cities tours wonders glass-houses
september 2007 by bkerr
Amazon | Across the Border to Spook Country: An Interview with William Gibson
spook-country william-gibson interview party-like-it's-2007 scenario shadowy-mysterious-characters caper-novel thriller object container macguffin baghdad-batteries erich-von-däniken weapon proposal disbelief ritual literary survival pattern recognition pattern-recognition fiction future imaginary yardstick rate-of-change difference-engine mmowhatever american-civil-war secondlife deserted empty architecture feral-cities mean avatars untethered google everything text word firefox memoir biography bruce-flatware speculative history changes burroughs beat amazon cyberstuff girls-with-bionic-fingernails patina-of-quaintness idoru nodal-point charlie-stross neuromancer victorian vancouver nyc
july 2007 by bkerr
spook-country william-gibson interview party-like-it's-2007 scenario shadowy-mysterious-characters caper-novel thriller object container macguffin baghdad-batteries erich-von-däniken weapon proposal disbelief ritual literary survival pattern recognition pattern-recognition fiction future imaginary yardstick rate-of-change difference-engine mmowhatever american-civil-war secondlife deserted empty architecture feral-cities mean avatars untethered google everything text word firefox memoir biography bruce-flatware speculative history changes burroughs beat amazon cyberstuff girls-with-bionic-fingernails patina-of-quaintness idoru nodal-point charlie-stross neuromancer victorian vancouver nyc
july 2007 by bkerr
benjismith.net | Introducing Sproiiiing: the Hottest New EoC Framework
june 2007 by bkerr
<sproiiiing:argument type="java.lang.String"> <sproiiiing:string-literal> <sproiiiing:![CDATA[Hello World!!]]> </sproiiiing:string-literal> </sproiiiing:argument>
sproiiiing
framework
futurspeek
magical
architecture
zero-LOC
zero-dependencies
party-like-it's-200x
xml-xml-xml
via:vielmetti
june 2007 by bkerr
Notional Slurry | Mitten’s self-organized page layout
may 2007 by bkerr
A neat amorphous idea, c/o agent Mitten via Tozier, filtering through the microcoworking gaggle. (My take was that a treemap would be a cool presentation for a "status page" or "aggregate all my junk page" and not so much a weblog dustbin / archive.)
a2b3
microcoworking
information
architecture
or
interior-decoration
presence
presentation
navigation
design
may 2007 by bkerr
one holey dome on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
april 2007 by bkerr
This was a nice landmark on my boring hikes up North Main for a while...
annarbor
north-main
church
architecture
destruction
april 2007 by bkerr
Flickr: Photos from jhoweaa
march 2007 by bkerr
"My favorite types of images to take or view include abstracts, black & white, things with high contrast and architectural. I like experimenting with HDR as well."
flickr
annarbor
umich
washtenaw
architecture
march 2007 by bkerr
washingtonpost.com | Roger K. Lewis - In Universal Design, Comfort and Function for All
march 2007 by bkerr
Column wrapped around the Center for Universal Design key principles.
universal
design
access
ability
accessibility
artificial
environment
product
architecture
process
via:socialdesignnotes
march 2007 by bkerr
PingMag | Pallalink - twisted symmetrie photographs
february 2007 by bkerr
"By making it symmetrical I confront the natural with the mechanical, the artificial. Architecture... is artificial. However, when people come and gather, it becomes like a city, a living organism and the situation transforms into something more natural."
architecture
mashup
urban
cut-up
word-falling
photo-falling
new-angel-city
february 2007 by bkerr
456 Berea Street | Accessibility for all vs. for people with disabilities
october 2006 by bkerr
"Let's stop the pointless arguing about what Web accessibility is and help each other make the Web a better place."
web
design
inclusive
architecture
october 2006 by bkerr
The Goodspeed Update | Michigan Plans ‘Aerotropolis’
september 2006 by bkerr
Rob reports on student projects from a January 2006 design exercise in developments re: activity around DTW and Willow Run airports. Aficionados of RoboCop will note the similarity of several designs to "Delta City."
michigan
detroit
airport
architecture
urban
planning
future
september 2006 by bkerr
"A city is not a tree" by Christopher Alexander
september 2006 by bkerr
Wow, not too easy to find an online version of the whole thing + illustrations.
visual
design
process
architecture
structures
psychology
ecology
human
behavior
narrative
classification
patterns
patternlanguage
september 2006 by bkerr
A Pattern Language
september 2006 by bkerr
Neat hypertext "summary of a book by Christopher Alexander, et al ... The original book contains much essential detail behind each of the following patterns and is recommended reading."
pattern
language
architecture
design
structure
si658
september 2006 by bkerr
Portland Architecture
may 2006 by bkerr
Architecture as blogged by a freelance writer/photographer.
portland
architecture
urban
spaces
design
weblog
may 2006 by bkerr
Julian Bleecker | Theory Objects & Design Patterns
april 2006 by bkerr
"There's a good reason for a Theory Object being a kind of Theory Object, and it's about design patterns for design itself."
design
objects
things
ideas
patterns
architecture
language
april 2006 by bkerr
ZeroOne San Jose & ISEA2006
march 2006 by bkerr
"A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art."
art
architecture
urban
spaces
design
conference
cities
events
electronic
fun
digital
media
culture
via:vielmetti
march 2006 by bkerr
Motorola Advertisements
january 2006 by bkerr
"These early 1960s paintings were done for Motorola as part of their consumer products ads series, 'Fresh from Motorola... new leader in the lively art of electronics' (scanned from Taschen's 'The Golden Age of Advertising – The 60s')."
advertising
architecture
media
design
brand
future
january 2006 by bkerr
Buildings and building stone - a gallery
september 2005 by bkerr
"This quaint page is a gallery of images of buildings and the stones of which they are built."
urban
architecture
construction
stone
cities
via:joeclark
september 2005 by bkerr
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