'built environment' is online

 Do you get a kick out reading articles like 'Use of insurance in managing construction risks .....' or 'Managing knowledge as quantity surveyors: An exploratory case study in Sri Lanka'
Here is just the magazine for you (just kidding!). And the best part is, it is online and it is free.Read SLIA's refereed (read academic) journal at the SriLanka Journals Online website.

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (book #16)

This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory.........

hambantota port

I recently had chance to visit the port construction site at Hambantota. Here is a panorama of the site.
A previous post on this project is here.

Location: 6° 12’N  81°10’E

good architecture can heal wounds

Good Architecture Can Heal Wounds: Anji & Robson on utube

who did gehry vote for?

Vanity Fair recently asked 52 prominent architects (including Frank Gehry) and critics to name the most important pieces of architecture built since 1980. The winner of the informal survey; which is to be published in the magazine's August issue is a familiar face who hardly needs more accolades from his peers in the architectural establishment.

Frank Gehry emerged at the top of the poll for his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

So whom did Gehry vote for? His ballot includes none of his own work: (Surprised? No, Gehry is NOT Sri Lankan!)

• Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium, Beijing (Herzog & de Meuron)
• CCTV Building, Beijing (Rem Koolhaas/O.M.A.)
• Church of Santa Maria, Marco de Canavezes, Portugal (Alvaro Siza Vieira)
• Cartier Foundation, Paris (Jean Nouvel)
• MAXXI Museum, Rome (Zaha Hadid)

the hire

The Hire

The Hire: Ambush


The Hire: Chosen


The Hire: The Follow


The Hire: Star


The Hire: Powder Keg


The Hire: Hostage


The Hire: Ticker


The hire: Beat The Devil


Cool series of short movies from BMW.
People who like these may also want to watch;
John Frankenheimer's Ronin
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express 
Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams
John Woo's The Killer
Joe Carnahan's A Team (the movie)
Tony Scott's Top Gun

soviet era posters

Love those soviet era posters from Russia and the Eastern Block? while their political messages may be an anathema to some of us they include some of the best graphics of that era, influenced by the movements such as  constructivism and modern movement.
 Here is one of hte better
http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/
www.internationalposter.com

design basics index (book #15)

Starts readers out with a look at the basic building blocks of design and takes them through the process of putting those elements together to create head-turning work.

5 more fonts ...

OK, don't worry this is the last one! This time 5 crazy fonts. (Font names were a major factor in selecting these fonts)

	Orial by Salman Boosty
	Birth of a Hero by Last Soundtrack
	Thirsty for Souls by nihilschiz
	Remington Noiseless by Richard Polt
	Karabine by Jonathan Paquett

10 san serifs .............

Here are 10 free sanserif fonts as a continuation of the last post (Sanserifs are the fonts without feet)

	Duepuntozero
	Comfortaa
	Walkway
	Yorkville
	Jacks Font
	Oregon LDO
	Albertino
	Museo Sans
	Anivers
	Engel Light

10 cool serif fonts ..........

I was busy with a couple of docs during the last month. it would be obvious if you have looked at the numbe rof posts for the last month ;). as usual i spent (read wasted) a lot of time searching for free font I would anyway have never used on those docs. So I thought I'd do something with all that 'extra' knowledge I have gathered!
So here are 10 cool free serif fonts (Yes Serifs are the fonts with feet)

	Museo
	AlexandriaFLF
	Gentium Basic
	Contra
	Sanford
	Juvelo
	Day Roman
	Portland LDO

MAS nirmaana (cSLa #29)

MAS Nirmaana is a Design Studio for Nike and a few other international conglomerates for international designers to try out there designs. Equipped with open plan design studios a catwalk as well as a storage facility to carry the latest samples for fabrics. The interior was done within an existing framework of an old steel building.

The Architectural Team:

Archt. Amila DeMel

Archt. Sanduni Gomis

Archt. Thanushka Wijayapala

Archt. Maheshika Jayaratne

Artists:

Ena DeSilva - Batik Tapestry Artist

Marie Gnanaraj - Tapestry Artist

Michael Daniels - Landscape Architect

Phootoos:

Waruna Gomis

TED TALK: radical look at sustainabe architecture

Interesting TED Talks on architecture and related subjects.

Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture

international seminar on vernacular settlements

	"Neither vernacular nor tradition is dead; nor they in deathbeds and facing extinction. Instead, vernacular is emerging in new forms, driven by new ideas, practices and values...." For further details visit this link ISVS Home is here