Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 1 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 2 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 3 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 4 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Through ongoing interviews that we have been conducting at core.form-ula, we have decided to highlight one video in particular for digital futures. We sat down with William Katavolos and got an incite on his experience as a Professor with over 50 years teaching at Pratt.

As we transition from one period to another, understanding the history becomes critical in building upon some of the rich pedagogies within the school and charting a path into the 21st century.

“More or less we have finished with “A”, we are now finishing with “B”, you better pull the “A”/ “B” together before you lose it but you better start on the new “C” and then of course you will have the “CA”, “CB”, the “ABC” and then we will have ourselves a great school” WK

You will be able to see parts 1-12 on core.form-ula over the next three weeks, in addition, digital future will be posting a lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to us.

Sir Peter Cook, renowned English architect, will be lecturing at Pratt Institute Thursday, March 11^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Sir Peter Cook (b Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 22 Oct 1936). English architect, teacher and critic. He studied architecture at the Bournemouth College of Art (1953-8) and at the Architectural Association, London (1958-60), where his teachers included James Gowan, John Killick and Peter Smithson. While working in the office of James Cubitt and Partners (1960-62) he met David Greene (b 1937), and, beginning in 1960, they produced the first of nine issues of the magazine Archigram. An ARCHIGRAM group was formed with other recently graduated young architects, including Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron and Mike Webb, who came together after Cook had joined the Taylor Woodrow Design Office in 1962. Archigram magazine was the group’s most important outlet, but a wider audience was also sought through exhibitions, for example the Living City exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (June 1963); through such events as the International Dialogue of Experimental Architecture, Folkestone (June 1966), a seminal conference for the architectural progressives; and through lecturing and teaching. Cook started teaching at the Architectural Association in 1964.

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When asked to describe the inspiration for the marvelous form of his Kunsthaus Graz museum, Cook describes how an intimate familiarity with the project’s site (“It used to be the one place that you could get a drink after 3 o’clock at night”) helped make the design decisions for this acclaimed building “terribly easy.” (1:40)

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Image courtesy Kunsthaus Graz; photography by Nicolas Lackner.

Hot Keys for Revit 2010-get them while they are hot….

Modeling menu

File menu

“ER” menu:”File-Editing Requests”
“RL” menu:”File-Reload Latest””RW” menu:”File-Reload Latest”

Edit menu

“DE” menu:”Edit-Delete”
“MD” menu:”Edit-Modify”
“SA” menu:”Edit-Select All Instances”
“MV” menu:”Edit-Move”
“CO” menu:”Edit-Copy”
“RO” menu:”Edit-Rotate”
“AR” menu:”Edit-Array”
“MM” menu:”Edit-Mirror”
“RE” menu:”Edit-Resize”
“GP” menu:”Edit-Group-Create Group”
“EG” menu:”Edit-Group-Edit Group”
“UG” menu:”Edit-Group-Ungroup”
“LG” menu:”Edit-Group-Link Group”
“EX” menu:”Edit-Group-Exclude Member”
“MP” menu:”Edit-Group-Move Member to Project”
“RB” menu:”Edit-Group-Restore Excluded Member”
“RA” menu:”Edit-Group-Restore All”
“AP” menu:”Edit-Group-Add to Group”
“RG” menu:”Edit-Group-Remove from Group”
“AD” menu:”Edit-Group-Attach Detail”
“PG” menu:”Edit-Group-Group Properties”
“FG” menu:”Edit-Group-Finish Group”
“CG” menu:”Edit-Group-Cancel Group”
“PP” menu:”Edit-Pin Position”
“UP” menu:”Edit-Unpin Position”
“CS” menu:”Edit-Create Similar””PR” menu:”Edit-Properties”

View menu

“ZR” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom In Region”
“ZO” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom Out (2x)”
“ZF” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZE” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZA” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom All To Fit”
“ZS” menu:”View-Zoom-Sheet Size”
“ZP” menu:”View-Zoom-Previous Scroll/Zoom”
“VP” menu:”View-View Properties”F8 menu:”View-Dynamically Modify View
“VG” menu:”View-Visibility/Graphics”
“HH” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Hide Element”
“HI” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Isolate Element”
“HC” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Hide Category”
“IC” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Isolate Category”
“HR” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Reset Temporary Hide/Isolate”
“EH” menu:”View-Hide in view-Elements”
“VH” menu:”View-Hide in view-Category”
“EU” menu:”View-Unhide in view-Elements”
“VU” menu:”View-Unhide in view-Category”
“WF” menu:”View-Wireframe”
“HL” menu:”View-Hidden Line””SD” menu:”View-Shading with Edges”
“AG” menu:”View-Advanced Model Graphics””TL” menu:”View-Thin Lines”
“RR” menu:”View-Rendering-Raytrace”
F5 menu:”View-Refresh”

Modeling menu

“DR” menu:”Modelling-Door”
“WN” menu:”Modelling-Window””CM” menu:”Modelling-Component”
“LI” menu:”Modelling-Lines”
“RP” menu:”Modelling-Ref Plane”

Drafting menu

“DI” menu:”Drafting-Dimension”
“EL” menu:”Drafting-Spot Dimension-Spot Elevation”
“TX” menu:”Drafting-Text”
“GR” menu:”Drafting-Grid”
“LL” menu:”Drafting-Level”
“TG” menu:”Drafting-Tag-By Category”
“RM” menu:”Drafting-Room”
“RT” menu:”Drafting-Room Tag”
“DL” menu:”Drafting-Detail Lines”

Site menu

Tools menu

F7 menu:”Tools-Spelling”
“MA” menu:”Tools-Match”
“LW” menu:”Tools-Linework”
“PT” menu:”Tools-Paint”
“SF” menu:”Tools-Split Face”
“AL” menu:”Tools-Align”
“SL” menu:”Tools-Split Walls and Lines”
“TR” menu:”Tools-Trim/Extend”
“OF” menu:”Tools-Offset”

Settings menu

“SU” menu:”Settings-Sun and Shadows Settings”
“UN” menu:”Settings-Project Units”

Window menu

“WC” menu:”Window-Cascade”
“WT” menu:”Window-Tile”

Help menu

Snap overrides

“SI” snapcode:”Intersections”
“SE” snapcode:”Endpoints”
“SM” snapcode:”Midpoints”
“SC” snapcode:”Centers”
“SN” snapcode:”Nearest”
“SP” snapcode:”Perpendicular”
“ST” snapcode:”Tangents”
“SW” snapcode:”Work Plane Grid”
“SQ” snapcode:”Quadrants”
“SX” snapcode:”Points”
“SR” snapcode:”Snap to Remote Objects”
“SO” snapcode:”Snaps Off”
“SS” snapcode:”Turn Override Off”

Alternates with closer key spacing

“ZZ” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom In Region”
“ZX” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZC” menu:”View-Zoom-Previous Scroll/Zoom”
“ZV” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom Out (2x)”
“VV” menu:”View-Visibility/Graphics”
“CC” menu:”Edit-Copy”

via core.form-ula

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Revit Workshop Level I

Location- Higging Hall Auditorium

Date + Time- 2010.02.20, 12-6pm (w/ a 30min break @ 2:45pm)

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Revit installed and an extension cord.

Description- This workshop will serve as a basic introduction to Autodesk Revit. It will cover the software history and will begin to open up how it is being used today in contemporary practices. This is geared for people that have little or no experience in BIM software and will serve as an introduction to some of the other Building Information Modeling courses that are available in the UG curriculum.

Conductor- Joseph Nocella

About- Autodesk Revit is Building Information Modeling software for Microsoft Windows, currently developed by Autodesk, which allows the user to design with parametric modeling and drafting elements. Building Information Modeling is a Computer Aided Design (CAD) paradigm that allows for intelligent, 3D and parametric object-based design. In this way, Revit provides full bi-directional associativity. A change anywhere is a change everywhere, instantly, with no user interaction to manually update any view. A BIM model may contain the building’s full life cycle, from concept to construction to decommissioning. This is made possible by Revit’s underlying relational database architecture which its creators call the parametric change engine. (text via wikipedia)

Brochure (pdf – 3950Kb)

Workshop Outline:

I. Introduction

II. BIM- Definition

III. Advantages of Working in a BIM Environment

IV. Current State of the Profession

V. Technology at SOM

VI. A Tour of the Tool

VII. Workshop

Workshop Files:

intro_levels

CAD background

Screen-cast from Alex Roman that takes you through modeling, rendering and compositing in motion graphics (3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.).  “A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already built spaces.” I am sure we will see many great things from him to come.

For more information on this project please visit thirdseventh.com/ + his vimeo page.

compositing breakdown

ARCH 565.21

Course Description

Research course. Fillip Tejchman, with John Lobell
Wednesdays, 2 pm – 5 pm

During this research-based seminar, Students will perform a close reading of Course’s Exeter Library through a series of analytical studies directed by theoretical and historic texts. Particular attention will be paid to the material/spatial framework and the programmatic organizations emerging from this Interplay.¶ Kahn wrote extensively about the relationship between his architectural intentions in relation to light, context, history and material. Many of these ideas are described in Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I Kahn which will serve as a theoretical reference for our work.

John Lobell, author of Between Silence and Light, will be present in the course to present the philosophical ideas in Kahn’s buildings.  Some of the work from the class will be used in a forthcoming book by Lobell.

On Thursday, November 19^th at 6pm, the second in a series of lectures by Pratt School of Architecture faculty will take place in the Higgins Hall Auditorium. Fabrications 2 Lecture with Professors Lawrence Blough and David Ruy will be focusing on specific projects that demonstrate new means of digital fabrication and material experimentation. Directly following the lecture, the Fabrications 2 Exhibit with reception will open in the Siegel Gallery.

Conductor-  Richard Sarrach

Description- Workshop will cover work-flow and basic rendering in Maxwell. Maxwell Render is a rendering engine based on the mathematical equations governing light transport, meaning that all elements, such as emitters, materials and cameras, are derived from physically accurate models. Maxwell Render is unbiased, so no tricks are used to calculate the lighting solution in every pixel of a scene; the result will always be a correct solution, as it would be in the real world. Maxwell Render can fully capture all light interactions between all elements in a scene, and all lighting calculations are performed using spectral information and high dynamic range data.

Location- HHN 308 (TBD)

Date + Time- 2009.11.09 (6:30-9:30pm)

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with the following software installed:

Maxwell Render V1.7 >>> TRIAL

Workshop Base Files >>> df workshop maxwell v001

Credits: Mihai Iliuta

Title- Fabrication I: 3D Printing

Description- The workshop will serve as an introduction to 3D Printing. Participants will be introduced to the most common issues and concerns one confronts as content is formatted for 3D Printing. Topics covered will include modeling strategies for preparing print files, proper proportioning of models to prevent structural failures during production and finishing, converting to STL format/ troubleshooting mesh irregularities, and file submission protocols. Emphasis will be placed on clean modeling and proper detailing to minimize errors in the printing process to ensure successful printing.

Conductors- Peter VanHage & Sebastian Misiurek

Location- HHN 416

Date + Time- 2009.11.02, 7-10pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with the following software installed:

Rhino3D (SR6)

Grasshopper (v0.6.0019)

Autodesk Maya 2009

Zprint XX.XXX (most recent update)

image credit: prefab china 2007  (Sebastian Misiurek, Alex Drabyk + Ivan Delgado)