Public Speaking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfThre5lv4I've found this interesting, as how many tutors ever teach us to speak confindently infront of an audience. Never done so. As I have seen many of my peers struggle to demostrate the basic example of communicating their ideas during crits.

Thinking of creating a website

http://www.nicolaschofield.co.uk/
Found a former student who has created a website for herself. This would be great for employors and friends to look at your work, instead of carrying huge portfolios.

Golden Ratio

I am interested in  'the golden ratio' for aesthetics and for its functional properties. This can play a significant part in the design process of the layout of the park and the building design.

Here I am experimenting with the golden ratio and also the Fibonachi sequence (an additive sequence where the next number is the sum of the previous two, ie. 1,1,2,3,5,8...) which approaches the golden ratio.

Diagrams

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11798317How diagrams change the way we draw things

An Interview with Simon Warren

This is do with my dissertation work, as I am finding out how global versus local architecture is affecting firms as from today. Interesting questions was put into placed, such as do you miss working in practice.
All the answers that was given was fair and honest in my opinion.

Self Help Communties

 
A very detailed book on building community architecture on a shoe string.

By Michael Seelig, printed byArchitectural record books, NewYork,1987

p83 The neighborhood cluster is organised arround a public square, which serves as ameeting place for the residents. It also contains such meeting facilities as water source and laundry area, the nursery school, nutrition center and sari-sari store

p52 Lightweight building components would be purchased by the inhabitants and connected to the support structure...The isometric drawing shows how the construction would be phased. The heavy building components, such as...public services...would be installed by the government