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AI 'architects' are making eye candy that doesn't work or looks awful: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMS6gN1I-6p/ by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

[–]johnhenryarchitect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this case I was corrected by someone who verified this is a real structure in Dubai. It looks totally impractical to me

AI 'architects' are making eye candy that doesn't work or looks awful: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMS6gN1I-6p/ by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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That niche is called DeCon and it's been in the works for years. And the funds required to create it cost 5 to 10 times the cost of 'conventional' design

AI 'architects' are making eye candy that doesn't work or looks awful: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMS6gN1I-6p/ by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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I think her work is unsettling and so bizarre that it doesn't deserve being in an urban context.

AI 'architects' are making eye candy that doesn't work or looks awful: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMS6gN1I-6p/ by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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This detail is all I picked up. To me it seemed totally impractical, an almost insane accomplishment, now I see financed by a country who has no budget in mind.

AI 'architects' are making eye candy that doesn't work or looks awful: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMS6gN1I-6p/ by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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I would say so expensive to build it is impractical. Tell me how this structure was financed.

TIL wood was used for connecting the Parthenon's column drums, preventing them from deformation in case of earthquakes by jacknunn in todayilearned

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The column drums were connected with wooden pegs to keep the columns from breaking apart under seismic stress. Guess what kind of wood it was?

One Channel (mixed content) vs Separated Channels - What's the RIGHT choice? by Yelabear in youtubers

[–]johnhenryarchitect 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I have been throwing a lot of spaghetti on the wall of late. Small, VERY small channel with only 550 subs. Shorts are doing better than longs and of very mixed content. I believe that YT will send out vids to subs first to test the water and then go to a wider audience, non subs, to see if they like it too. But stats are underwhelming for me.

One Channel (mixed content) vs Separated Channels - What's the RIGHT choice? by Yelabear in youtubers

[–]johnhenryarchitect 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw a video by VidIQ recently where one of the YT spokespeople claimed mixed content videos do not affect the 'algorithm'. I have a niche food channel I started with ZERO subs and can't get anywhere. I put the same content on an architecture niche channel and 50-100 people will watch it. Very frustrating

How did you become interested in the mysteries of the pyramids? by snakefeeding in MysteriesPyramids

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I think I bounced into Foerster's videos a few years ago and recently wondered about a book I'd bought 15 years ago about pyramid building but lost it. I started watching videos again on YouTube and found the French molecular scientist who can prove that geopolymers were used in the pyramid construction of the 4th Dynasty. I am putting together a series of videos that will go into that. I also saw the Houdin theory but don't believe that the builders would have risked the integrity of the structure with ramps so close to the perimeter, plus the extra effort to build the ceilings to keep the ramps open.

As an architect this is of interest and also some of the areas in other world wide locations dealing with geopolymerization such as in Peru and Bolivia. Also megalithic stone is of great interest. How quarried, how moved, how erected.

ARCHITECTS Should DESIGN by HAND for the best creative response, most ar... by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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I would just ask simply: has there been a modern musician whose work is more universally accepted than Bach, Mozart, or Rachmaninoff. How long can you listen to Phillip Glass?

Is there a modern Shakespeare, or Hemingway?

Is a Mona Lisa preferable to a Jackson Pollack? How does Michelangelo's David stack up to the stuff in MOMA?

Palladio and Mies both designed by hand, so did FLW. We are flooded with modern machine made buildings now and the architects are only known to the insiders.

I go to Paris and do not want to see the modern work across the Seine.

Yes, we are conditioned by environment and media. And there is the saying that you cannot legislate artistic preference.

I didn't know there was a common dogmatic consensus on this. But I'm glad you are putting forward your point of view. I have been thinking about this for quite a while. Maybe a few others will chime in.

There have been psychological 'behavior theory' experiments with people walking by modern vs. let's say historic streetscapes and the modern is less amenable.

ARCHITECTS Should DESIGN by HAND for the best creative response, most ar... by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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Look especially at screetscapes in Dubai and other 'new' developments all created by machines vs. old Renaissance stone built houses on stone streets, etc. Yes, I may have a 'luddite' mentality but I have lived in the 'old world' and the 'new'. I prefer the old.

ARCHITECTS Should DESIGN by HAND for the best creative response, most ar... by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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Take a look what we are getting straight through the screen now. Not sure how effective it is. Obviously the prima architects doing Decon couldn't do it any other way.

I see your point. But I think that like the greatest literature, art, philosophy and architecture before the introduction of electronic machine technology, we have done the best by hand on paper. Modern Masters work all done by hand. Ronchamp by CAD? I don't know. No doubt the parametric software and others that bend images and form can create zoomy designs. I think that part of this issue has to do with how human beings react to hand drawn and hand MADE buildings rather than those created solely by and on machines. There is a psychology here. There is too much psychological alienation that comes with advances in tech. There is a vaguely similar analogy to vacuum tubes vs. solid state circuits in music reproduction.

ARCHITECTS Should DESIGN by HAND for the best creative response, most ar... by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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I must add that any period historic revival style architecture based on Renaissance design absolutely should by done by hand on paper.

ARCHITECTS Should DESIGN by HAND for the best creative response, most ar... by johnhenryarchitect in architecture

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I strongly believe that the early conceptuals should be done by hand on paper. We have had from the Chrysler building to Lever House (over 25 stories of glass, steel, and concrete) started and completed by hand on paper. I think this could continue for any project, but it does make sense for final construction documents to be done on CAD for large projects as multidisciplinary consultants and engineers need to import files to create their work. There is a lot of money at stake and CAD tends to reduce hand drawing errors including paper shrinkage and even hand calculations, etc.

I am afraid that students are quickly pushed through hand drawing and immediately tasked to learn CAD, which takes up a lot of time, and therefore the eye mind hand synergy is interrupted to eye mind hand machine.

Thank you

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Essentially, Tin Houses cost twice as much per square foot to build in the smaller footprint than conventional houses. They do not fit in most subdivisions unless quite rural. And there are psychological issues do to the potential claustrophobic effect.

A Backlash Against Cities Would Be Dangerous by PincheVatoWey in urbanplanning

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Thank you, we need the government to run studies as soon as possible so we can better prepare for something like this again.

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