Michael Maltzan’s Crest Apartments The Michael Maltzan Architecture Studio was made aware of the rising levels of homelessness and poverty in the South California area. They most recently constructed the beautiful, white Crest Apartments in Van Nuys, a small suburb off of Los Angeles, which contains 60 studio apartments for their formerly homeless occupants. This…

A Mother’s Guiding Hand The reflective, luminescent glass has a mind of its own. For it drapes and molds itself into organs filling the void between the two legs of the tall building, but not without the guiding hand of the white beams, much like a that of a mother’s guiding hand for her child….

Umeda Sky Building – Japan Understanding Architecture/Architectural History Digital Architectural Design Construction Technology Urban Architectural Design  Physical Structural Design Visual Studies Media of Representation/Fabrication Architectural Physics Architectural Engineering One of the most essential aspects to designing architecture is creating something that people want to look at and can ultimately use. In my course I would…

by Olivia Thomson

Limitless Domain The feeling of limitless-ness is one that is frightening to me. With limitless-ness comes the unknown. Where does this photo end? Where do the woods meet civilization? As the trees appear farther and farther away they become more faded, until it fades into a light gray which indicates no end. For this reason…

These are two elevation drawings of the US Capitol building. The first image depicts a vertical cut of the capitol building to demonstrate both what the interior of the capitol looks like and the structure of the dome, while the second also has a vertical cut on the right half of the photo that demonstrates…

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