Other Links Of Interest
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John Lautner's Elrod house video
This link opens a YouTube slide show made from photographs of organic architect John Lautner's Elrod house in Palm Springs, California. The house was used in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever". This video is a little more than 9 minutes long and has been watched by over 32,500 viewers.
John Lautner's Sheats/Goldstein house video
This link opens a YouTube slide show made from photographs of organic architect John Lautner's Sheats/Goldstein house in Los Angeles, California. This video is a little less than 7 minutes long. This video has been watched by over 18,000 viewers.
Ashelford residence video
This link opens a YouTube slide show made from a few renderings of the Ashelford residence. This video is a little more than two minutes long.
Cabin C video
This video is a proof of concept walk through of an early version of the Cabin C project before the garage was added and the walls changed to realistic rammed earth. This video is less than a minute long. This video will be redone when time permits.
Following (in no particular order) are links to the web sites of some of the architects and organizations who are continuing Organic Architecture as defined by Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright and have inspired me:
Wikipedia states that Organic Architecture is "The idea of organic architecture refers not only to the buildings' literal relationship to the natural surroundings, but how the buildings' design is carefully thought about as if it were a unified organism." and "...organic architecture is also the literal design of every element of a building: From the windows, to the floors, to the individual chairs intended to fill the space. Everything relates to one another, reflecting the symbiotic ordering systems of nature."
Following (in no particular order) are links to the web sites related to the use of rammed earth:
One area of architectural design and sustainable material use that interests me is stabilized insulated rammed earth. In 2007, I attended a class on building with insulated rammed earth at Sirewall in Canada. It would be fun to design and build a project using stabilized insulated rammed earth.
Following (in no particular order) are links to my Revit ® Architecture how-to documents and presentations featuring step-by-step instructions on creating a few Revit ® families:
Designing your own path to proficiency in Revit
Creating artwork with frames for the walls in your model
Creating mitered-corner windows
Creating a photo-realistic (rammed earth) material
Over the years, custom Revit ® Architecture families needed to be created for use within my projects but complete step-by-step instructions on how to create the specific type of families listed here have not been adequately documented within most of the various 3rd-party Revit ® Architecture books within my library.
I presented a talk "Designing your own path to proficiency in Revit" to the South Coast Revit Users Group on Thursday February 28, 2013 at the offices of LPA in Irvine, CA.
Note that some of the links listed above are not functional at this time. The links will work when the associated documents have been authored and uploaded onto this site.
Following (in no particular order) are other links of interest:
AUGI Autodesk User Group International Revit Forums
SCRUG South Coast Revit User Group Blog
RTC Revit Technology Conferences
These links to other sites may be helpful to Revit ® Architecture users.
