Thursday, October 28, 2010

Ecological Frameworks Lecture

Here are selected slides to be covered in the quiz for this lecture. Important things to note are the Human Ecosystem Model diagram, the definitions of the 3 scientific ecological models: Patch Dynamics, Human Ecosystem, and Watershed approach.

Week 12
"Ecological Frameworks"

Human Ecosystem Model

Röyksopp - Remind me

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Staging Ground : The Agency of Infrastructure


For your work on the San Saeb canal, see if you can be inspired by the visualizations Andrew TenBrink created for his 2010 thesis work for a Master of Landscape Architecture II degree at Harvard GSD.  All of the perspectives/plates from his blog (link below) can be enlarged.

Staging Ground : The Agency of Infrastructure

Monday, October 25, 2010

WaterLife

nice flash website (one of the top ten of the year) about Water

Visual Complexity

visual complexity exhibits a multitude of examples for representing complex networks.  Consider how the networks and data you are trying to express about the canal piers can be expressed most clearly through similar mappings and diagrams

'City as Living Laboratory' Website

Learn more about the work of Mary Miss at http://www.marymiss.com

'Hydrology' and 'Rural Landscape Urbanism' Lectures

The lectures below contain some of the material to be covered in the next quiz.  Review the slides and your notes about the class discussion.  


LECTURES 
Week 8
"Rural Landscape Urbanism"
Week 10

"Hydrology for Urbanism"

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

AutoCAD for Mac


Download a free trial version here....or just wait a few weeks and buy a virus pirated copy at Fortune Town.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization



Awesomely, beautiful diagrams in his book 'Information is Beautiful', highly recommended,
and to a lesser extent 'the Visual Miscellaneum'
both by David McCandless

Monday, October 11, 2010

Thursday, October 7, 2010

La Maison en Petits Cubes



Click on the image above to see a short film from Japanese animator Kunio Kato that uses rising ocean levels as a critical component to the plot.

Project 2 /// Web Research



To start your research on the piers along the San Saab Canal, visit the website Ajarn Phanat presented in class: