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- About
- Lectures
- Digital Tools For Architects
- Digital Tools For Architects – Lectures (F2011)
- L02 – Organizing Your Digital Life
- L03 – Architecture & The Web
- L04 – Introduction to Photography
- L05 – Processing Photos
- L06 – Introduction to Photoshop
- L07 – Panoramic Photography
- L08 – HDR Photography
- L09 – Advanced Photoshop
- L10 – Graphic Design 1
- L11 – Typography
- L12 – Graphic Design 2 – Structure + Organization
- L18 – Architectural Diagrams
- L26 – Making Silhouettes from Trees
- L27: Building Collage Elements
- Digital Tools For Architects – Lectures (F2010)
- Lecture 01: Course Introduction
- Lecture 02: Organizing Your Digital Life
- Lecture 03: Architecture & The Web
- Lecture 04: Introduction to Digital Photography
- Lecture 05: Processing Photos
- Lecture 06: Introduction to Photoshop
- Lecture 07: Panoramic Photography
- Lecture 08: HDR Photography
- Lecture 09: Advanced Photoshop
- Lecture 10: Graphic Design 1
- Lecture 11: Typography
- Lecture 12: Graphic Design 2 – Structure + Organization
- Lecture 13: Portfolio Design (Part 1)
- Lecture 14: Introduction to Illustrator
- Lecture 15: Typographic Design
- Lecture 16: Charles Harper
- Lecture 18: Architectural Diagrams
- Lecture 20: Laser Cut Screens
- Lecture 23: 3D Modeling: An Overview
- Lecture 24: SketchUp Continued
- Lecture 25: Terrain Modeling & Section Cuts
- Lecture 26: Building Collage Elements
- Lecture 27: Simple Clipping Masks
- Lecture 28: Complex Clipping Masks
- Lecture 30: Architectural Perspectives
- Digital Tools For Architects – Lectures (F2011)
- Digital Tools For Architects II
- DTFA II – Lectures (S2012)
- L01: Course Introduction
- L02: Organizing Your Digital Life
- L03: Introduction to 2D Drawing
- L04: More 2D Drawing & Introduction to 3D
- L05: Introduction to Assignment 1 & Exercise 10.5 Demonstration
- L06: Exercise 10.6 Demonstration
- L07: Exercise 10.7 Demonstration
- L11: Exercise 10.11 Demonstration
- L13: Assignment 2 – Demonstration, Part 1
- L14: Assignment 2 Demonstration Part 2
- L15: Exercise 10.15 Demonstration
- L16: Exercise 10.16 Demonstration
- L18: Exercise 10.18 Demonstration
- L19: Exercise 10.19 Demonstration
- L20: Exercise 11.1 Demonstration
- L21: Exercise 11.2 Demonstration
- L22: Exercise 11.3 Demonstration
- L23: Exercise 11.4 Demonstration
- L24: Exercise 11.7 Demonstration
- DTFA II – Lectures (S2011)
- DTFA II – Lectures (S2012)
- Other Lectures
- Digital Tools For Architects
- Tutorials
- Digital Life
- Digital Life 0.1 [dropbox]
- Digital Life 0.2 [U3 Dropbox]
- Digital Life 0.3 [dropbox portable]
- Digital Life 0.4 [picasa portable]
- Digital Life 0.5 [calendar feeds]
- Digital Life 0.6a [google calendar & outlook]
- Digital Life 0.6b [google calendar & iCal]
- Digital Life 0.6c [google calendar & sunbird]
- Digital Life 0.7 [google profile]
- Digital Life 0.8 [google reader]
- Digital Life 0.9 [google apps for your domain]
- Digital Life 0.10 [sunbird portable]
- Digital Life 0.11 [subscribe to calendar]
- Digital Life 0.12 [flavors.me]
- Digital Life 0.13 [gravatar]
- Digital Life 0.14 [hugin]
- Digital Life 0.15 [AMP Font Viewer]
- Digital Life 0.16 [building page]
- Digital Life 0.17 [install advanced renamer]
- Digital Life 0.18 [rename for ovr]
- Digital Life 0.19 [object vr]
- Illustrator
- Illustrator 3.1 [pathfinder]
- Illustrator 3.2 [colorjack swatches]
- Illustrator 3.3 [pen tool]
- Illustrator 3.4 [trimming paths]
- Illustrator 3.5 [layers]
- Illustrator 3.6 [live paint]
- Illustrator 3.7 [brushes]
- Illustrator 3.8 [scatter brushes]
- Illustrator 3.9 [art brushes]
- Illustrator 3.12 [live trace]
- Illustrator 3.13 [clipping masks]
- Illustrator 3.14 [complex clipping masks]
- Illustrator 3.15 [clipping mask from live paint]
- Illustrator 3.16 [envelope distort]
- Illustrator 3.17 [CMYK to RGB]
- InDesign
- InDesign 2.1 [new document]
- InDesign 2.2 [place, re-size, crop]
- InDesign 2.3 [text]
- InDesign 2.4 [character palette]
- InDesign 2.5 [paragraph palette]
- InDesign 2.6 [character styles]
- InDesign 2.7 [paragraph styles]
- InDesign 2.8 [align]
- InDesign 2.9 [image spanning frames]
- InDesign 2.10 [text as a frame]
- InDesign 2.11 [transparency]
- Photoshop
- Photoshop 1.1 [black & white]
- Photoshop 1.2 [levels]
- Photoshop 1.3 [curves]
- Photoshop 1.4 [pop]
- Photoshop 1.5 [dodge & burn]
- Photoshop 1.6 [save for web]
- Photoshop 1.7 [panoramas]
- Photoshop 1.8 [HDR images]
- Photoshop 1.9 [adjustment layers]
- Photoshop 1.10 [masks on adjustment layers]
- Photoshop 1.13 [Filter>Extract]
- Photoshop 1.14 [background eraser]
- Photoshop 1.15 [quick masks]
- Photoshop 1.16 [masks via paths]
- Photoshop 1.17 [transparency gradient]
- Photoshop 1.18 [history brush]
- Photoshop 1.19 [displacement map]
- Photoshop 1.20 [bump maps]
- Photoshop 1.21 [transparency maps]
- Photoshop 1.22 [tiling texture]
- Photoshop 1.23 [color swatches]
- Physical Modeling
- Rhinoceros Tutorials
- Rhino Tutorial 5.2 [simple shapes]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.3 [grids]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.4 [osnap]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.5 [polylines]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.6 [rotate3d]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.7 [offset]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.8 [patch]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.9 [trim]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.10 [sweep]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.11 [unTrim]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.12 [Cage Edit]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.13 [project]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.14 [blocks]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.15 [array]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.16 [material properties]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.17 [directional light]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.18 [control points]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.19 [rebuild]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.20 [contour]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.21 [Loft]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.22 [Unrollsrf]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.23 [SketchUp Topography]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.24 [curve networks]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.25 [Section]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.26 [SectionTools.rhp]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.27 [Viewports]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.28 [Saved Views]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.29 [Cameras]
- Rhinoceros Tutorial 5.30 [Scale]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.31 [isocurves]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.32 [texture mapping]
- Rhino Tutorial 5.33 [bump maps]
- Rhinoceros 5.34 [transparency maps]
- Rhinoceros 5.35 [make2d]
- SketchUp
- V-Ray
- V-Ray 8.1 [basic options]
- V-Ray 8.2 [assigning materials]
- V-Ray 8.3 [basic materials]
- V-Ray 8.4 [material reflection layers]
- V-Ray 8.5 [infinite plane]
- V-Ray 8.6 [texture map]
- V-Ray 8.7 [transparency map]
- V-Ray 8.8 [bump maps]
- V-Ray 8.9 [displacement map]
- V-Ray 8.10 [mapping]
- V-Ray 8.11 [export .vismat]
- V-Ray 8.12 [import .vismat]
- V-Ray 8.13 [object vr renderings]
- V-Ray 8.14 [glass material]
- V-Ray 8.15 [emissive material]
- V-Ray 8.16 [2 sided material]
- V-Ray 8.17 [sun]
- V-Ray 8.18 [sky]
- V-Ray 8.19 [physical camera]
- V-Ray 8.20 [viewport lens length]
- Vectorworks
- Digital Life
- Exercises
- Digital Tools For Architects (Archi 135)
- Exercises – Fall 2011
- Hours By Arrangement – F2011
- Exercises – Fall 2010
- Exercise 1.1
- Exercise 1.2
- Exercise 1.3
- Exercise 2.1
- Exercise 2.2
- Exercise 2.3
- Exercise 2.4
- Exercise 2.5
- Exercise 2.6
- Exercise 3.1
- Exercise 3.2
- Exercise 3.3
- Exercise 3.5
- Exercise 3.6
- Exercise 4.1
- Exercise 4.2
- Exercise 4.2 (Revised)
- Exercise 4.3
- Exercise 4.4
- Exercise 4.5
- Exercise 4.6
- Exercise 5.1
- Exercise 5.2
- Exercise 6.1
- Exercise 6.2
- Exercise 6.3
- Exercise 6.4
- Exercise 7.1
- Exercise 7.2
- Exercise 7.3
- Digital Tools For Architects II
- HBA (S2012)
- Spring 2012 Exercises
- Exercise 10.1
- Exercise 10.2
- Exercise 10.3
- Exercise 10.4
- Exercise 10.5
- Exercise 10.6
- Exercise 10.7
- Exercise 10.8
- Exercise 10.9
- Exercise 10.10
- Exercise 10.11
- Exercise 10.12
- Exercise 10.15
- Exercise 10.16
- Exercise 10.18
- Exercise 10.19
- Exercise 11.1
- Exercise 11.2
- Exercise 11.3
- Exercise 11.4
- Exercise 11.5
- Exercise 11.6
- Exercise 11.7
- Spring 2011 Exercises
- Digital Tools For Architects (Archi 135)
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- Alvar Aalto – Baker House
- Alvar Aalto – Säynätsalo Town Hall
- Art & Art History Building, University of Iowa (Steven Holl)
- Bailey House, Case Study House No. 21 (Pierre Koenig)
- Balnarring House (Simon Couchman)
- Beijing National Stadium(Herzog & de Meuron)
- Brion Cemetery (Carlo Scarpa)
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- Burj Al Arab( Rati )
- Burj Khalifa (Adrian Smith)
- Chapel of St Ignatius (Steven Holl)
- Chartres Cathedral
- China Central Television Headquarters-OMA
- Church of the Light (Tadao Ando)
- City of Capitals (NBBJ)
- City of Culture of Galicia (Peter Eisenman)
- Empire State Building(
- Evelyn Grace Academy (Zaha Hadid)
- Fallingwater House (Frank Lloyd Wright)
- Fifth Avenue Apple Store (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson)
- Floating Roof House (Tezuka Architects)
- Fold (Apollo Architects)
- Grand Central Terminal (Reed and Stem; Warren and Wetmore)
- Guangzhou Opera House (Zaha Hadid)
- Guggenheim (Frank Lloyd Wright)
- Hadrian – Pantheon
- HBA Beijing National Stadium (Herzog & de Meuron)
- House in Nagoya (Suppose Architects)
- Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center (Renzo Piano)
- Jewish Museum (Daniel Libeskind)
- Kaufmann Desert House – Richard Neutra
- Koshino House (Tadao Ando)
- Le Corbusier – Monastery of La Tourette
- Le Corbusier – Unité d Habitation
- Linked Hybrid (Steven Holl)
- marina bay sands (safdie)
- New York Times Building (Renzo Piano)
- Oslo Opera House (Snøhetta Architects)
- Paramount Theatre (Timothy L. Pflueger)
- Parthenon
- Pompidou Centre
- Rock Hall of Fame (I.M. Pie)
- Roman Colosseum (The Roman Emperor Vespasian)
- Salisbury Cathedral
- San Francisco Federal Building (Morphosis)
- San Francisco Transbay Transit Center (Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects)
- San Paolo Bank(Baltasarh & Parasite Studio)
- Science Museum, Valencia Spain (Santiago Calatrava)
- Sendai Mediatheque (Toyo Ito)
- SFMOMA – Mario Botta
- Sky Garden (Guz Architects)
- Sydney Opera House (Jørn Utzon)
- Takaharu & Yui Tezuka – Matsunoyama Natural Science Museum
- Test Slider
- Therme Vals (Peter Zumthor)
- Villa Savoye (Le Corbusier)
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- Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry)
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