Check out this project:
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/12/17/hustadvika-tools-wooden-sheds-rever-drage-retractable-roof/
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Often the Best Architecture comes in the Smallest Projects
Check out this project:
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/12/17/hustadvika-tools-wooden-sheds-rever-drage-retractable-roof/
Friday, March 29, 2013
Evolution of a Blogger
Over the past five years, I've experienced another personal milestone understanding this new high tech world of communication and education.
My personal learning process has been that of a "happy wanderer" discovering the wonders of our new technologies. During my wanderings and experiments, I fear that I 've confused many of my friends (and followers) who have tried to track my musings of a better world through "participatory design."
This particular blog was one of my first permutations of an adventure that began with a Facebook group that I formed in 2007-8 entitled Heart of Roanoke. That first effort grew quickly with a following of nearly 800 members. The purpose of establishing that group was an attempt to engage fellow Roanokers in a process of reviewing the Downtown core of the City of Roanoke Virginia. In a short time, it became clear that a blog format would be a logical evolution of the original FB group.
A high percentage of members of the FB Group, migrated to the "Heart of Roanoke" blog.
As the recession in the construction industry began taking its toll in 2008-09, I faced a dilemma of trying to supplement my support my passion for intellectual growth with income derived from my lifelong expertise in architecture and planning. Social Security benefits were not going to be enough.
My next step in the summer of 2009 was to begin trying to more effectively identify myself with the Heart of Roanoke project and thereby achieve a measure of financial assistance with my continuing efforts. With this motive in mind, I decided to identify myself as Appalachian Architect and renamed and reformatted the blog.
With a professional career that has spanned over four decades, I have found it extremely difficult to self promote my skills, wanting, and indeed expecting, my skills to promote themselves trough the integrity of my work. I have been offended by the marketing techniques gradually adopted in the medical and legal professions and my own architectural profession. How can we continue to improve our services if we only focus upon how to promote and overly embellish our past achievements?
In the Spring of 2011, I debuted another blog entitled, Appalachian Architect's Studio. My effort here has been to establish an educational resource through my continuing practice of Architecture and Design.
Finally, in the Spring of 2010, I began another blog entitled "Bent Mountain Virginia." The focus of this blog was to promote a forum to address community issues while educating our community family and others about the impact of industrial scale energy generation along the crests of our beloved Blue Ridge mountains.
The readership of these publications as of 3/29/13:
My personal learning process has been that of a "happy wanderer" discovering the wonders of our new technologies. During my wanderings and experiments, I fear that I 've confused many of my friends (and followers) who have tried to track my musings of a better world through "participatory design."
This particular blog was one of my first permutations of an adventure that began with a Facebook group that I formed in 2007-8 entitled Heart of Roanoke. That first effort grew quickly with a following of nearly 800 members. The purpose of establishing that group was an attempt to engage fellow Roanokers in a process of reviewing the Downtown core of the City of Roanoke Virginia. In a short time, it became clear that a blog format would be a logical evolution of the original FB group.
A high percentage of members of the FB Group, migrated to the "Heart of Roanoke" blog.
As the recession in the construction industry began taking its toll in 2008-09, I faced a dilemma of trying to supplement my support my passion for intellectual growth with income derived from my lifelong expertise in architecture and planning. Social Security benefits were not going to be enough.
My next step in the summer of 2009 was to begin trying to more effectively identify myself with the Heart of Roanoke project and thereby achieve a measure of financial assistance with my continuing efforts. With this motive in mind, I decided to identify myself as Appalachian Architect and renamed and reformatted the blog.
With a professional career that has spanned over four decades, I have found it extremely difficult to self promote my skills, wanting, and indeed expecting, my skills to promote themselves trough the integrity of my work. I have been offended by the marketing techniques gradually adopted in the medical and legal professions and my own architectural profession. How can we continue to improve our services if we only focus upon how to promote and overly embellish our past achievements?
In the Spring of 2011, I debuted another blog entitled, Appalachian Architect's Studio. My effort here has been to establish an educational resource through my continuing practice of Architecture and Design.
Finally, in the Spring of 2010, I began another blog entitled "Bent Mountain Virginia." The focus of this blog was to promote a forum to address community issues while educating our community family and others about the impact of industrial scale energy generation along the crests of our beloved Blue Ridge mountains.
The readership of these publications as of 3/29/13:
I've noticed that even some of the blogs, that I have allowed to become dormant, continue to receive pageviews on a daily basis. So I feel obligated to many of you to revitalize some of the dormant blogs. The other change that I noticed is that Google now is taking advantage of the pageviews by placing unsolicited advertising on them.
In the past, I have avoided opting for advertising to help support my efforts with the intent of preserving the professional integrity of the information offered.
From this time forward, I have decided to accept Google's continuing requests to allow advertising on these sites. I apologize to my many friends and followers if this decision seems to reduce the integrity or quality of the information I wish to convey. I will also commit to posting at least weekly on each of the referenced blogs to respect those who have continued to support me with your pageviews.
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