petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - 3 days ago | people, cities, books, ideas, development, design, architecture
Quoted: Both the tree and the semilattice are ways of thinking about how a large collection of many small systems goes to make up a large and complex system. More generally, they are both names for structures of sets.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - 16 days ago | architecture, art, artists
Quoted: he did put forward a photograph of a street person’s shelter for inclusion. This interest was further expressed in the series of photographs he took of small houses and shepherds’ shelters in the hills around Genoa when on a walking holiday with Jane Crawford and of self-built shanties in the West Indies.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - 28 days ago | design, engineering, architecture, planning, cities, views, modernism, moscow
360 degree views from the top and base of the Shukhov Tower!
Quoted: by Andrey Ilyin
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 16 2009 | planning, architecture, cities, Fernando de Mello Franco, development
Video of a lecture on urban hydrology by Fernando de Mello Franco
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 03 2009 | news, photography, chicago, cities, travel, architecture
I'd love to see this!
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 30 2009 | architecture, real estate, news
Quoted: A house of "global significance" is caught up in a family drama.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2009 | architecture, adaptive reuse, preservation, design
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2009 | urban, houses, architecture
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 20 2009 | architecture, photography, preservation, organizations, history, cities
Moscow that is no more, a historical preservation nonprofit (in Russian, but amazing historical photos of buildings, etc.)
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2009 | architecture
Quoted: Starting with an adaptation of Jorg Schlaich’s solar chimney power generators, Behin's project employs the stack effect to moderate the temperature of the city, and to provide for some of its energy needs. Already a successful engineer-entrepreneur when he decided to study architecture, Behin uses his strong understanding of technology to enter the problem of the zero carbon city from a pragmatic point of view, but ends up asking us whether we're ready to re-engage utopia. - Bryan Boyer, Senior Editor - Archinect
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