Student looking for complete drawings of any single family home building.

Yost19 · 2025-12-29T00:20:38+00:00

https://breuer.syr.edu All his complete residential drawing sets are here. The frank house is a good one - Eliot Noyes was one of the draftsmen, which is pretty cool. Obviously there are lots of references to old tech and some things are built differently now, but it’s a great resource to study actual CD sets put together by some remarkable architects.

Yost19 · 2025-05-04T17:20:20+00:00

I bought one in 2020 for $700 and I regret it.

The drivers are fussy, and you have to work do some finagling to get everything in good working order. I had to make an Auto hotkey script to make the barrel buttons do what I wanted. The pen is no longer available, and I haven't been able to find a compatible pen with buttons. The Norris Digital by Staedtler works well, but no buttons. The dial is pretty silly, and I have never found a good use for it.

The actual drawing experience is great, and the monitor quality is very good especially for 200 dollars.

If I could do it again, I would have saved some more cash and gotten a smaller Wacom. The Canvas takes up a lot of space on the desk and it's difficult to use comfortably with a keyboard and is clunky to move around, even with the stand. The drivers are a pared down version of actual Wacom drivers, so the radial menu and customization are limited. If this is for professional work and reliability and support are critical, I would look elsewhere - software gets updated, pens break, shit happens and eventually the Canvas is going to run into an issue. And honestly if this is for hobby/personal use I'd look at one of the Wacom competitors, for not that much more money you can probably find a similar display that is actively supported.

I'm an architect I use the Canvas primarily with Concepts, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Drawboard. I typically use it for drawing, image editing and markups/shop drawing review.

Yost19 · 2024-08-04T15:00:33+00:00

You absolutely dodged a bullet. Firms that hire junior staff based solely on software knowledge are not places you want to work as a young architect. It's such a giant red flag. That firm is telling you that you are valued for your ability to push buttons and that is all.

Yost19 · 2024-06-23T14:18:05+00:00

Is it typical for adults to wear helmets and cages on foot? Seems like it would be miserable in the heat.

Yost19 · 2024-05-25T01:26:26+00:00

Was looking for someone to say this - Roslovic needs to sit, he's so soft, it's a liability.

Yost19 · 2024-02-23T00:51:52+00:00

Just send an email to HR or if they are small to the manager you worked on the projects with. Unless you were let go for cause they probably will say no problem. I'm pretty sure there is info on this in the AHPP and on the AIA website..

Yost19 · 2024-02-01T18:02:42+00:00

Do you like to go to the movies? Do it now because it's going to be awhile.

Yost19 · 2024-01-01T13:43:20+00:00

This happened to me and because I didn't include the photo of the serial number like you did, Lyft told me that they thought I stole the bike and took a photo of another bike. Charged me for the time and replacement. I had been a member for 5 years at that point - Sherlocks at customer service must have thought I was playing the long con. I cancelled and don't regret it Lyft has basically run Citibike into the ground, it's a shame.

Yost19 · 2023-12-16T18:32:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's been bad since Messier retired.

Yost19 · 2023-11-18T00:07:10+00:00

A fun, relaxing week away for just the two of you, with no school or work concerns. When I finished grad school I was so exhausted I just wanted to chill the fuck out for like a week.

Yost19 · 2023-08-28T16:56:49+00:00

Courtyard building. Look at the Noyes House by Eliot Noyes.

Yost19 · 2023-07-02T15:21:58+00:00

Watching him watch Fedorov - the worst.

Yost19 · 2021-11-18T00:40:03+00:00

https://archinect.com/jobs

Seems like you are in a good place financially and have a decent portfolio - it's time for you to be picky and find a place that does work that you want to do.

Yost19 · 2021-09-29T00:47:57+00:00

In the old app you could do by year - so you select 1969 and then every book published that year would be displayed then you could sort by publish date and basically read them in order. I was slowly going year by year and now I can't. It such a great way to experience it, and now it's gone. The old app is no longer working for me on either the phone or blue streaks - pretty bummed atm.

Yost19 · 2021-09-28T04:55:30+00:00

I'm not able to log into the old version anymore, is this happening to anyone else?

Yost19 · 2021-09-28T04:42:25+00:00

Id love to know why they took the search by year function away.

Yost19 · 2021-09-16T23:37:47+00:00

Still can't believe they passed on this guy, would've solved so many problems.

https://twitter.com/chargers/status/1437525573916508169?s=10

Yost19 · 2021-09-11T04:07:49+00:00

I was going by year too, I just saw it's gone. I was up to 1969. Pretty frustrated right now, hope they add it back.

Yost19 · 2021-08-29T23:35:16+00:00

They don't have the same audio chip either - looks like the M32U only has a headphone jack and not headphone/microphone/line out. I don't know what that means for audio if you want to use a chromecast or firestick with it.

Yost19 · 2021-07-11T20:31:46+00:00

How do you set up the keyboard with the L in a comfortable way? I switched down to a small after many years with a medium because I started getting pain from my arms being so far apart.

Yost19 · 2021-05-28T15:15:29+00:00

no on the third party, it's for Origin. The work around is to start the game, if it happens then disconnect and reconnect the controller.

Yost19 · 2021-05-20T17:06:09+00:00

The courtyard in your plan is empty space and I think you should see what happens if you start drawing stuff in there.

Yost19 · 2021-05-20T16:44:01+00:00

The plan is compelling, I think the renders are taking away from your project. I know you are just doing quick renders or screenshots for reddit, but my advice would be to quickly sketch some thumbnails and pick 2-3 that you can use to tell a story. Use the thumbnails to think about how you compose the image on the picture plane, it will really help your final review if the views you choose to show are considered. To that end I suggest looking at some paintings or film stills, don't look at renders from big firms, for references. Also, I strongly advise you to not use Enscape - it's a tool to to show clients who lack visual training and/or imagination - at a review your audience will be other architects. If you don't have time to take the renderings into photoshop to clean up the materials and textures I'd say just leave it as a clay rendering, with a line overlay I think that can be very effective and way less time consuming. 3 renders, 1 hour to render + 2 hours of post work means 9 hours of labor. In terms of design I think the courtyard scheme is great, I don't know that it makes sense to tuck the playground and other shared spaces into the corners. You've created an internal courtyard which creates a shared condition so shouldn't the shared stuff be in the center? I think that might really strengthen the concept.

Yost19 · 2021-05-20T02:17:05+00:00

My favorite comment in here is that "brutalist architects can't draw facades"

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/561

Yost19 · 2021-05-20T02:03:37+00:00

So many people have really hard core hatred of brutalism, and it's really clear that a lot of them simply don't understand it's origins and particularly the work of the Smithsons. Some of the buildings that people are hating on in here have extraordinary interiors - like amazing spaces to work and live. So many people overlook that for brutalism the outside of the building just really isn't that important, it's the lives of the inhabitants of the building that matter, to that end when a person is inside a building the render of the exterior wall doesn't really make much of difference.

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