The entries currently fall into one of three categories: Experience & Use, Formal Ideas, Process & Design Thinking. My ‘Housing Ideas‘ blog hosts a series of lesser-known projects that demonstrate may of the ideas covered below. I also run related blogs hosting essays and informal reflections of individuals and texts that underpin many of the topics below. These can be found at lmd:vlugt:dml.
Experience and Use
Formal Ideas
- Six Conditions of a Cube
- A Stair Separates, A Ramp Connects
- Plan Geometry: 1-square, 4-square, 9-square
- Opacity, Transparency & Translucency
- Skin versus Wall
- Centred, Peripheral and Dispersed Plan Types
- The Wall Between Inside and Outside
- Mediating the Horizontal and Vertical
- Plinth and Void as Mediator to Ground
Process & Design Thinking
- The First Decision is Arbitrary
- The Concept
- 3 Reasons
- Three Dimensions of Space
- Spatial Form & Spatial Practice
- Design Thinking
- Qualitative & Quantitative: Subjective & Objective
- When you hear ‘nature’ look for ‘culture’
- Architectural Drawings
- Theory/Analysis/Design
- Data versus Analysis
- The building is the concept / non-linear design
- Programme, Function, Use, Activity
Tired Tropes (a laundry list of mistaken or worn out ideas, methods and beliefs perpetuated by tutors and students alike)
- Random Shape Generator and Extrusion (coming soon)
Note: Some entries fit in more than one category and are tagged in this way in the blog. To make navigation easier they are only listed once in the table of contents.
Architecture Design Primer 