#meaning alvar is 31-32

[cavennmalore]

i cannot believe i am being flamed on a post about ALVAR

just realized alvar is like a forty year old man. what the hell

[scgplace]

My Hunter of whom i devolped a crush on thanks to my two days of drawing her.

Name: Alvar Manus

Meaning of First name: Female German name meaning Truth Speaker or Guardian

Last name meaning: Manus (Gaulish origin) meaning "good"

Age: She knows she something in her 30s Maybe 31 or 32? She doesnt remember well.

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Prefered fighting style: Battle Mage - Fire Magic

The Hunter is a woman that is skilled in magic, alchemy, and swordsmanship, though she favors magic. Be aware - when approaching the Hunter, do not be fooled by her personable attitude.

Shes romancing Fem!Noel

[archatlas]

Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know

by Michael Sorkin

  1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.   2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.   3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.   4.    The modulus of rupture.   5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.   6.    The distance of a whisper.   7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as   ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).

The Temple of Hatshepsut 

  8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.   9.    In your town (include the rich). 10.    The flowering season for azaleas. 11.    The insulating properties of glass. 12.    The history of its production and use. 13.    And of its meaning. 14.    How to lay bricks. 15.    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16.    The rate at which the seas are rising. 17.    Building information modeling (BIM). 18.    How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19.    The Gini coefficient. 20.    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21.    In a wheelchair. 22.    The energy embodied in aluminum. 23.    How to turn a corner. 24.    How to design a corner. 25.    How to sit in a corner. 26.    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27.    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28.    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29.    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30.    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31.    The basics of mud construction. 32.    The direction of prevailing winds. 33.    Hydrology is destiny. 34.    Jane Jacobs in and out. 35.    Something about feng shui. 36.    Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37.    Elementary ergonomics. 38.    The color wheel. 39.    What the client wants. 40.    What the client thinks it wants. 41.    What the client needs. 42.    What the client can afford. 43.    What the planet can afford. 44.    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45.    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46.    Another language. 47.    What the brick really wants. 48.    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49.    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50.    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51.    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52.    Where the CCTV cameras are. 53.    Why Mies really left Germany. 54.    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55.    The structural properties of tufa. 56.    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57.    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58.    Vitruvius. 59.    Walter Benjamin. 60.    Marshall Berman. 61.    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62.    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built.

Duomo in Florence

63.    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64.    The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65.    Entasis. 66.    The history of Soweto. 67.    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68.    Back-up. 69.    The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70.    Shear and moment. 71.    Shakespeare, et cetera. 72.    How the crow flies. 73.    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74.    How the pyramids were built. 75.    Why. 76.    The pleasures of the suburbs. 77.    The horrors. 78.    The quality of light passing through ice. 79.    The meaninglessness of borders. 80.    The reasons for their tenacity. 81.    The creativity of the ecotone. 82.    The need for freaks. 83.    Accidents must happen. 84.    It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85.    The smell of concrete after rain. 86.    The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87.    How to ride a bicycle. 88.    The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89.    The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90.    The wages of construction workers. 91.    Perspective by hand. 92.    Sentence structure. 93.    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94.    The thrill of the ride. 95.    Where materials come from. 96.    How to get lost. 97.    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98.    What human differences are defensible in practice. 99.    Creation is a patient search. 100.    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101.    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102.    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103.    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104.    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105.    How to dérive. 106.    Woodshop safety. 107.    A great deal about the Gothic. 108.    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109.    A distaste for imperialism. 110.    The history of Beijing.

Beijing Skyline

111.    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112.    Aristotle’s Politics. 113.    His Poetics. 114.    The basics of wattle and daub. 115.    The origins of the balloon frame. 116.    The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117.    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118.    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119.    Where else to sink it. 120.    The fire code. 121.    The seismic code. 122.    The health code. 123.    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124.    How to listen closely. 125.    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126.    The exquisite corpse. 127.    Scissors, stone, paper. 128.    Good Bordeaux. 129.    Good beer. 130.    How to escape a maze. 131.    QWERTY. 132.    Fear. 133.    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134.    The proper way to behave with interns. 135.    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136.    The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137.    How to calculate ecological footprints. 138.    Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139.    The value of human life. 140.    Who pays. 141.    Who profits. 142.    The Venturi effect. 143.    How people pee. 144.    What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145.    The fine print in the contract. 146.    A smattering of naval architecture. 147.    The idea of too far. 148.    The idea of too close. 149.    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150.    The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151.    The density needed to support a subway. 152.    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153.    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154.    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155.    Constructivism, in and out. 156.    Sinan. 157.    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158.    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159.    Several other artistic media. 160.    A bit of chemistry and physics. 161.    Geodesics. 162.    Geodetics. 163.    Geomorphology. 164.    Geography. 165.    The Law of the Andes. 166.    Cappadocia first-hand.

Cappadocia

167.    The importance of the Amazon. 168.    How to patch leaks. 169.    What makes you happy. 170.    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171.    The view from the Acropolis. 172.    The way to Santa Fe. 173.    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174.    Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175.    Half as much as a London cabbie. 176.    The Nolli Plan. 177.    The Cerdà Plan. 178.    The Haussmann Plan. 179.    Slope analysis. 180.    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181.    Dawn breaking after a bender. 182.    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183.    Betty Friedan. 184.    Guy Debord. 185.    Ant Farm. 186.    Archigram. 187.    Club Med. 188.    Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189.    Solid geometry. 190.    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191.    Ha Long Bay. 192.    What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193.    In Rio. 194.    In Calcutta. 195.    In Curitiba. 196.    In Mumbai. 197.    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198.    Why you think architecture does any good. 199.    The depreciation cycle. 200.    What rusts. 201.    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202.    How to play a musical instrument. 203.    Which way the wind blows. 204.    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205.    How to guard a house from floods. 206.    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207.    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208.    Where north (or south) is. 209.    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210.    Stadtluft macht frei. 211.    Underneath the pavement the beach. 212.    Underneath the beach the pavement. 213.    The germ theory of disease. 214.    The importance of vitamin D. 215.    How close is too close. 216.    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217.    The draught of ferries. 218.    Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219.    The difference between gabions and riprap. 220.    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall.

Boston Symphony Hall

221.    How to open the window. 222.    The diameter of the earth. 223.    The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224.    The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225.    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226.    Concrete finishes. 227.    Brick bonds. 228.    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229.    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230.    The energy potential of the wind. 231.    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232.    Paestum. 233.    Straw-bale building technology. 234.    Rachel Carson. 235.    Freud. 236.    The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237.    Of Alvar Aalto. 238.    Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239.    The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240.    Mesa Verde National Park. 241.    Chichen Itza. 242.    Your neighbors. 243.    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244.    The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245.    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246.    How to cut a truly elegant section. 247.    The depths of desire. 248.    The heights of folly. 249.    Low tide. 250.    The Golden and other ratios.

[thethingssafhaslearnedsofar]

TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

Michael Sorkin

 1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.  2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.  3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.  4.    The modulus of rupture.  5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.  6.    The distance of a whisper.  7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as   ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).  8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.  9.    In your town (include the rich). 10.    The flowering season for azaleas. 11.    The insulating properties of glass. 12.    The history of its production and use. 13.    And of its meaning. 14.    How to lay bricks. 15.    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16.    The rate at which the seas are rising. 17.    Building information modeling (BIM). 18.    How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19.    The Gini coefficient. 20.    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21.    In a wheelchair. 22.    The energy embodied in aluminum. 23.    How to turn a corner. 24.    How to design a corner. 25.    How to sit in a corner. 26.    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27.    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28.    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29.    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30.    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31.    The basics of mud construction. 32.    The direction of prevailing winds. 33.    Hydrology is destiny. 34.    Jane Jacobs in and out. 35.    Something about feng shui. 36.    Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37.    Elementary ergonomics. 38.    The color wheel. 39.    What the client wants. 40.    What the client thinks it wants. 41.    What the client needs. 42.    What the client can afford. 43.    What the planet can afford. 44.    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45.    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46.    Another language. 47.    What the brick really wants. 48.    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49.    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50.    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51.    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52.    Where the CCTV cameras are. 53.    Why Mies really left Germany. 54.    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55.    The structural properties of tufa. 56.    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57.    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58.    Vitruvius. 59.    Walter Benjamin. 60.    Marshall Berman. 61.    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62.    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63.    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64.    The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65.    Entasis. 66.    The history of Soweto. 67.    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68.    Back-up. 69.    The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70.    Shear and moment. 71.    Shakespeare, et cetera. 72.    How the crow flies. 73.    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74.    How the pyramids were built. 75.    Why. 76.    The pleasures of the suburbs. 77.    The horrors. 78.    The quality of light passing through ice. 79.    The meaninglessness of borders. 80.    The reasons for their tenacity. 81.    The creativity of the ecotone. 82.    The need for freaks. 83.    Accidents must happen. 84.    It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85.    The smell of concrete after rain. 86.    The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87.    How to ride a bicycle. 88.    The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89.    The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90.    The wages of construction workers. 91.    Perspective by hand. 92.    Sentence structure. 93.    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94.    The thrill of the ride. 95.    Where materials come from. 96.    How to get lost. 97.    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98.    What human differences are defensible in practice. 99.    Creation is a patient search. 100.    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101.    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102.    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103.    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104.    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105.    How to dérive. 106.    Woodshop safety. 107.    A great deal about the Gothic. 108.    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109.    A distaste for imperialism. 110.    The history of Beijing. 111.    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112.    Aristotle’s Politics. 113.    His Poetics. 114.    The basics of wattle and daub. 115.    The origins of the balloon frame. 116.    The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117.    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118.    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119.    Where else to sink it. 120.    The fire code. 121.    The seismic code. 122.    The health code. 123.    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124.    How to listen closely. 125.    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126.    The exquisite corpse. 127.    Scissors, stone, paper. 128.    Good Bordeaux. 129.    Good beer. 130.    How to escape a maze. 131.    QWERTY. 132.    Fear. 133.    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134.    The proper way to behave with interns. 135.    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136.    The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137.    How to calculate ecological footprints. 138.    Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139.    The value of human life. 140.    Who pays. 141.    Who profits. 142.    The Venturi effect. 143.    How people pee. 144.    What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145.    The fine print in the contract. 146.    A smattering of naval architecture. 147.    The idea of too far. 148.    The idea of too close. 149.    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150.    The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151.    The density needed to support a subway. 152.    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153.    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154.    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155.    Constructivism, in and out. 156.    Sinan. 157.    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158.    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159.    Several other artistic media. 160.    A bit of chemistry and physics. 161.    Geodesics. 162.    Geodetics. 163.    Geomorphology. 164.    Geography. 165.    The Law of the Andes. 166.    Cappadocia first-hand. 167.    The importance of the Amazon. 168.    How to patch leaks. 169.    What makes you happy. 170.    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171.    The view from the Acropolis. 172.    The way to Santa Fe. 173.    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174.    Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175.    Half as much as a London cabbie. 176.    The Nolli Plan. 177.    The Cerdà Plan. 178.    The Haussmann Plan. 179.    Slope analysis. 180.    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181.    Dawn breaking after a bender. 182.    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183.    Betty Friedan. 184.    Guy Debord. 185.    Ant Farm. 186.    Archigram. 187.    Club Med. 188.    Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189.    Solid geometry. 190.    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191.    Ha Long Bay. 192.    What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193.    In Rio. 194.    In Calcutta. 195.    In Curitiba. 196.    In Mumbai. 197.    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198.    Why you think architecture does any good. 199.    The depreciation cycle. 200.    What rusts. 201.    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202.    How to play a musical instrument. 203.    Which way the wind blows. 204.    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205.    How to guard a house from floods. 206.    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207.    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208.    Where north (or south) is. 209.    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210.    Stadtluft macht frei. 211.    Underneath the pavement the beach. 212.    Underneath the beach the pavement. 213.    The germ theory of disease. 214.    The importance of vitamin D. 215.    How close is too close. 216.    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217.    The draught of ferries. 218.    Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219.    The difference between gabions and riprap. 220.    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221.    How to open the window. 222.    The diameter of the earth. 223.    The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224.    The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225.    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226.    Concrete finishes. 227.    Brick bonds. 228.    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229.    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230.    The energy potential of the wind. 231.    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232.    Paestum. 233.    Straw-bale building technology. 234.    Rachel Carson. 235.    Freud. 236.    The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237.    Of Alvar Aalto. 238.    Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239.    The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240.    Mesa Verde National Park. 241.    Chichen Itza. 242.    Your neighbors. 243.    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244.    The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245.    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246.    How to cut a truly elegant section. 247.    The depths of desire. 248.    The heights of folly. 249.    Low tide. 250.    The Golden and other ratios. https://www.readingdesign.org/

[100hands]

TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

Michael Sorkin

 1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.  2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.  3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.  4.    The modulus of rupture.  5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.  6.    The distance of a whisper.  7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as   ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).  8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.  9.    In your town (include the rich). 10.    The flowering season for azaleas. 11.    The insulating properties of glass. 12.    The history of its production and use. 13.    And of its meaning. 14.    How to lay bricks. 15.    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16.    The rate at which the seas are rising. 17.    Building information modeling (BIM). 18.    How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19.    The Gini coefficient. 20.    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21.    In a wheelchair. 22.    The energy embodied in aluminum. 23.    How to turn a corner. 24.    How to design a corner. 25.    How to sit in a corner. 26.    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27.    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28.    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29.    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30.    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers. 31.    The basics of mud construction. 32.    The direction of prevailing winds. 33.    Hydrology is destiny. 34.    Jane Jacobs in and out. 35.    Something about feng shui. 36.    Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37.    Elementary ergonomics. 38.    The color wheel. 39.    What the client wants. 40.    What the client thinks it wants. 41.    What the client needs. 42.    What the client can afford. 43.    What the planet can afford. 44.    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45.    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46.    Another language. 47.    What the brick really wants. 48.    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49.    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50.    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe. 51.    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52.    Where the CCTV cameras are. 53.    Why Mies really left Germany.

Upto #53 ready reckoner here: https://adamachrati.wordpress.com/category/sorkin-250/

54.    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55.    The structural properties of tufa. 56.    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57.    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58.    Vitruvius. 59.    Walter Benjamin. 60.    Marshall Berman. 61.    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62.    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63.    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64.    The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65.    Entasis. 66.    The history of Soweto. 67.    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68.    Back-up. 69.    The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70.    Shear and moment. 71.    Shakespeare, et cetera. 72.    How the crow flies. 73.    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74.    How the pyramids were built. 75.    Why. 76.    The pleasures of the suburbs. 77.    The horrors. 78.    The quality of light passing through ice. 79.    The meaninglessness of borders. 80.    The reasons for their tenacity. 81.    The creativity of the ecotone. 82.    The need for freaks. 83.    Accidents must happen. 84.    It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85.    The smell of concrete after rain. 86.    The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87.    How to ride a bicycle. 88.    The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89.    The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90.    The wages of construction workers. 91.    Perspective by hand. 92.    Sentence structure. 93.    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94.    The thrill of the ride. 95.    Where materials come from. 96.    How to get lost. 97.    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98.    What human differences are defensible in practice. 99.    Creation is a patient search. 100.    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101.    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102.    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103.    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104.    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105.    How to dérive. 106.    Woodshop safety. 107.    A great deal about the Gothic. 108.    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109.    A distaste for imperialism. 110.    The history of Beijing. 111.    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112.    Aristotle’s Politics. 113.    His Poetics. 114.    The basics of wattle and daub. 115.    The origins of the balloon frame. 116.    The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117.    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118.    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119.    Where else to sink it. 120.    The fire code. 121.    The seismic code. 122.    The health code. 123.    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124.    How to listen closely. 125.    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126.    The exquisite corpse. 127.    Scissors, stone, paper. 128.    Good Bordeaux. 129.    Good beer. 130.    How to escape a maze. 131.    QWERTY. 132.    Fear. 133.    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134.    The proper way to behave with interns. 135.    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136.    The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137.    How to calculate ecological footprints. 138.    Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139.    The value of human life. 140.    Who pays. 141.    Who profits. 142.    The Venturi effect. 143.    How people pee. 144.    What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145.    The fine print in the contract. 146.    A smattering of naval architecture. 147.    The idea of too far. 148.    The idea of too close. 149.    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150.    The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151.    The density needed to support a subway. 152.    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153.    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154.    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155.    Constructivism, in and out. 156.    Sinan. 157.    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158.    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159.    Several other artistic media. 160.    A bit of chemistry and physics. 161.    Geodesics. 162.    Geodetics. 163.    Geomorphology. 164.    Geography. 165.    The Law of the Andes. 166.    Cappadocia first-hand. 167.    The importance of the Amazon. 168.    How to patch leaks. 169.    What makes you happy. 170.    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171.    The view from the Acropolis. 172.    The way to Santa Fe. 173.    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174.    Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175.    Half as much as a London cabbie. 176.    The Nolli Plan. 177.    The Cerdà Plan. 178.    The Haussmann Plan. 179.    Slope analysis. 180.    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181.    Dawn breaking after a bender. 182.    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183.    Betty Friedan. 184.    Guy Debord. 185.    Ant Farm. 186.    Archigram. 187.    Club Med. 188.    Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189.    Solid geometry. 190.    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191.    Ha Long Bay. 192.    What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193.    In Rio. 194.    In Calcutta. 195.    In Curitiba. 196.    In Mumbai. 197.    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198.    Why you think architecture does any good. 199.    The depreciation cycle. 200.    What rusts. 201.    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202.    How to play a musical instrument. 203.    Which way the wind blows. 204.    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205.    How to guard a house from floods. 206.    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207.    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208.    Where north (or south) is. 209.    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210.    Stadtluft macht frei. 211.    Underneath the pavement the beach. 212.    Underneath the beach the pavement. 213.    The germ theory of disease. 214.    The importance of vitamin D. 215.    How close is too close. 216.    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217.    The draught of ferries. 218.    Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219.    The difference between gabions and riprap. 220.    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221.    How to open the window. 222.    The diameter of the earth. 223.    The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224.    The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225.    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226.    Concrete finishes. 227.    Brick bonds. 228.    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229.    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230.    The energy potential of the wind. 231.    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232.    Paestum. 233.    Straw-bale building technology. 234.    Rachel Carson. 235.    Freud. 236.    The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237.    Of Alvar Aalto. 238.    Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239.    The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240.    Mesa Verde National Park. 241.    Chichen Itza. 242.    Your neighbors. 243.    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244.    The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245.    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246.    How to cut a truly elegant section. 247.    The depths of desire. 248.    The heights of folly. 249.    Low tide. 250.    The Golden and other ratios.

Published in: Michael Sorkin, What Goes Up, London: Verso, 2018.

[asliaydin]

TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW

by Michael Sorkin

1   The feel of cool marble under bare feet. 2   How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months. 3   With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week. 4   The modulus of rupture. 5   The distance a shout carries in the city. 6   The distance of a whisper. 7   Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as “modernist” avant la lettre). 8   The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City. 9   In your town (include the rich). 10   The flowering season for azaleas.

11   The insulating properties of glass. 12   The history of its production and use. 13   And of its meaning. 14   How to lay bricks. 15   What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’ 16   The rate at which the seas are rising. 17   Building information modeling (BIM). 18   How to unclog a Rapidograph. 19   The Gini coefficient. 20   A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old. 21   In a wheelchair. 22   The energy embodied in aluminum. 23   How to turn a corner. 24   How to design a corner. 25   How to sit in a corner. 26   How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure. 27   The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda. 28   The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses. 29   The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi. 30   The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travelers. 31   The basics of mud construction. 32   The direction of prevailing winds. 33   Hydrology is destiny. 34   Jane Jacobs in and out. 35   Something about feng shui. 36   Something about Vastu Shilpa. 37   Elementary ergonomics. 38   The color wheel. 39   What the client wants. 40   What the client thinks it wants. 41   What the client needs. 42   What the client can afford. 43   What the planet can afford. 44   The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections. 45   What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building. 46   Another language. 47   What the brick really wants. 48   The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed. 49   What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri. 50   What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.

51   What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 52   Where the CCTV cameras are. 53   Why Mies really left Germany. 54   How people lived in Çatal Hüyük. 55   The structural properties of tufa. 56   How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil. 57   The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells. 58   Vitruvius. 59   Walter Benjamin. 60   Marshall Berman. 61   The secrets of the success of Robert Moses. 62   How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built. 63   The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building. 64   The cycle of the Ise Shrine. 65   Entasis. 66   The history of Soweto. 67   What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas. 68   Back-up. 69   The proper proportions of a gin martini. 70   Shear and moment. 71   Shakespeare, et cetera. 72   How the crow flies. 73   The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood. 74   How the pyramids were built. 75   Why. 76   The pleasures of the suburbs. 77   The horrors. 78   The quality of light passing through ice. 79   The meaninglessness of borders. 80   The reasons for their tenacity. 81   The creativity of the ecotone. 82   The need for freaks. 83   Accidents must happen. 84   It is possible to begin designing anywhere. 85   The smell of concrete after rain. 86   The angle of the sun at the equinox. 87   How to ride a bicycle. 88   The depth of the aquifer beneath you. 89   The slope of a handicapped ramp. 90   The wages of construction workers. 91   Perspective by hand. 92   Sentence structure. 93   The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal. 94   The thrill of the ride. 95   Where materials come from. 96   How to get lost. 97   The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space. 98   What human differences are defensible in practice. 99   Creation is a patient search. 100   The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte. 101   The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering. 102   Many ideas about what constitutes utopia. 103   The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon. 104   Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque. 105   How to dérive. 106   Woodshop safety. 107   A great deal about the Gothic. 108   The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa. 109   A distaste for imperialism. 110   The history of Beijing. 111   Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century. 112   Aristotle’s Politics. 113   His Poetics. 114   The basics of wattle and daub. 115   The origins of the balloon frame. 116   The rate at which copper acquires its patina. 117   The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin. 118   The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon. 119   Where else to sink it. 120   The fire code. 121   The seismic code. 122   The health code. 123   The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy. 124   How to listen closely. 125   That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation. 126   The exquisite corpse. 127   Scissors, stone, paper. 128   Good Bordeaux. 129   Good beer. 130   How to escape a maze. 131   QWERTY. 132   Fear. 133   Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan. 134   The proper way to behave with interns. 135   Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever. 136   The history of big machines, including those that can fly. 137   How to calculate ecological footprints. 138   Three good lunch spots within walking distance. 139   The value of human life. 140   Who pays. 141   Who profits. 142   The Venturi effect. 143   How people pee. 144   What to refuse to do, even for the money. 145   The fine print in the contract. 146   A smattering of naval architecture. 147   The idea of too far. 148   The idea of too close. 149   Burial practices in a wide range of cultures. 150   The density needed to support a pharmacy. 151   The density needed to support a subway. 152   The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce. 153   Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes. 154   Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx. 155   Constructivism, in and out. 156   Sinan. 157   Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents. 158   The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures. 159   Several other artistic media. 160   A bit of chemistry and physics. 161   Geodesics. 162   Geodetics. 163   Geomorphology. 164   Geography. 165   The Law of the Andes. 166   Cappadocia first-hand. 167   The importance of the Amazon. 168   How to patch leaks. 169   What makes you happy. 170   The components of a comfortable environment for sleep. 171   The view from the Acropolis. 172   The way to Santa Fe. 173   The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 174   Where to eat in Brooklyn. 175   Half as much as a London cabbie. 176   The Nolli Plan. 177   The Cerdà Plan. 178   The Haussmann Plan. 179   Slope analysis. 180   Darkroom procedures and Photoshop. 181   Dawn breaking after a bender. 182   Styles of genealogy and taxonomy. 183   Betty Friedan. 184   Guy Debord. 185   Ant Farm. 186   Archigram. 187   Club Med. 188   Crepuscule in Dharamshala. 189   Solid geometry. 190   Strengths of materials (if only intuitively). 191   Ha Long Bay. 192   What’s been accomplished in Medellín. 193   In Rio. 194   In Calcutta. 195   In Curitiba. 196   In Mumbai. 197   Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.) 198   Why you think architecture does any good. 199   The depreciation cycle. 200   What rusts. 201   Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard. 202   How to play a musical instrument. 203   Which way the wind blows. 204   The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs. 205   How to guard a house from floods. 206   The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha. 207   The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha. 208   Where north (or south) is. 209   How to give directions, efficiently and courteously. 210   Stadtluft macht frei. 211   Underneath the pavement the beach. 212   Underneath the beach the pavement. 213   The germ theory of disease. 214   The importance of vitamin D. 215   How close is too close. 216   The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer. 217   The draught of ferries. 218   Bicycle safety and etiquette. 219   The difference between gabions and riprap. 220   The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall. 221   How to open the window. 222   The diameter of the earth. 223   The number of gallons of water used in a shower. 224   The distance at which you can recognize faces. 225   How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good). 226   Concrete finishes. 227   Brick bonds. 228   The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels. 229   The prismatic charms of Greek island towns. 230   The energy potential of the wind. 231   The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect. 232   Paestum. 233   Straw-bale building technology. 234   Rachel Carson. 235   Freud. 236   The excellence of Michel de Klerk. 237   Of Alvar Aalto. 238   Of Lina Bo Bardi. 239   The non-pharmacological components of a good club. 240   Mesa Verde National Park. 241   Chichen Itza. 242   Your neighbors. 243   The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields. 244   The remediation capacity of wetlands. 245   The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges. 246   How to cut a truly elegant section. 247   The depths of desire. 248   The heights of folly. 249   Low tide. 250   The Golden and other ratios.

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EINDNOTEN

1. G. Schildt, Alvar Aalto: Masterworks (Londen, Groot-Brittannië: Thames and Hudson, 1998), p 136 – 143.

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2. K. Fleig, Elissa Aalto (Ed.), Alvar Aalto: Complete Works, 1922-1962 Vol 1 (Bazel, Zwitserland: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 1990), p 236 – 247.

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3. E. Laaksonen, Á. Ólafsdóttir: Alvar Aalto Architect - Maison Louis Carre 1956-63, Vol.20 (Helsinki, Findland: Alvar Aalto Foundation/Alvar Aalto Academy, 2008)

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4. K. Fleig, op.cit.

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5. G. Schildt, Alvar Aalto: Masterworks, op.cit.

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6. Taalunie, Het Groene Boekje: woordenlijst Nederlandse taal (Antwerpen, België: Van Dale Uitgevers, 2015)

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7. www.Encyclo.nl: Nederlandse encyclopedie, april 2017, http://www.encyclo.nl/begrip/retoriek

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8. L. Morrissey, 87th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Legacy: Toward a Rethoric of Architecture (Washington, Verenigde Staten van Amerika: ASCA Press, 1999) p 357 – 359.

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9. www.Encyclo.nl: Nederlandse encyclopedie, op.cit.

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10. C. Leopold, Geometry Concepts In Architectural Design (maart, 2017), p 2.

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11. L. Morrissey, op.cit.

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12. L. Morrissey, ibid.

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13. D. Hattenhauer, Communication Quarterly: The rhetoric of architecture: A semiotic approach (Oxford, Verenigd Koninkrijk: Routledge, 1984), p 71 -77.

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14. H. Pauwels, Alvar Aalto 1898 – 1976 (Brussel, België: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, 1986), p 11-16, 37, 63.

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15. P. Reed, Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism (Londen, Groot-Brittannië: Thames and Hudson, 1998), p 57-58, 264-265, 292-293.

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16. H. Pauwels, op.cit.

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17. N. E. Wickberg, Alvar Aalto: A Full-Length Portrait (Helsinki, Finland: Suomen Arkkitehtiliitto SAFA: The Finnish Association of Architects, 1999) p 9-15.

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18. E. Laaksonen, Á. Ólafsdóttir, op.cit.

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19. G. Schildt, Alvar Aalto: His Life (Jyväskylä, Finland: Alvar Aalto Museum, 2007) p 684.

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20. G. Schildt, Alvar Aalto: The Complete Catalogue of Architecture, Design, and Art (Londen, Groot-Brittannië: Academy Editions, 1994), p 177, 199-201.

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21. J. Leiviskä, et al., Matter and Mind in Architecture (Helsinki, Finland : Alvar Aalto Foundation, Alvar Aalto Museum, The Finnish Association of Architects, Building Information Ltd, 2000) p 116-135.

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22. G. Schildt, Alvar Aalto: Masterworks, op.cit.

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23. E. Laaksonen, Ásdís Ólafsdóttir, op.cit.

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24. 32. P. Reed, op.cit.

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25. E. Laaksonen, Á. Ólafsdóttir, op.cit.

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26. H. Pauwels, op.cit.

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27. E. Laaksonen, Á. Ólafsdóttir, op.cit.

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28. E. Laaksonen, Á. Ólafsdóttir, ibid.

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29. P. Chandavarkar, “Architecture and the Expression of Meaning,” Architecture + Design Volume 4, issue 5 (1988), p 94-99.

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30. C.-S. Chan, “Phenomenology of Rythm in Desgin,” Frontiers of Architectural Research Volume 1, issue 3 (september, 2012), p 253-258.

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31. C.-S. Chan, ibid.

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32. P. Reed, op.cit.

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33. P. Buxton, “Marie-José Van Hee’s Inspiration: Maison Louis Carré by Alvar Aalto”, BDonline , 1 aug. 2013, http://www.bdonline.co.uk/marie-jos%C3%A9-van-hees-inspiration-maison-louis-carr%C3%A9-by-alvar-aalto/5058545.article

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34. P. Buxton, ibid.

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35. E. Laaksonen, Á. Ólafsdóttir, op.cit.

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36. P. Buxton, op.cit.