Link-fest II: Electric Link-a-loo

Since I'm going to have to wait for information to come in, I thought I would spend some time today trolling the web for interesting architecture sites. I find that the blogosphere is a very useful place to find inspiration not just for design strategies, but also for representational techniques. How are architects showing what is important? What kind of people do they use? What is happening between rendering/handrawing/illustrating/photshopping? The way projects are shown is inextriably linked to what they are about so it is extremely useful to look at how architects represent their projects, and what kind of art is happening and can be co-opted for my purposes.

The best way for me to do this is to look around on the web. The information here may not be completely up to date, but it is often more recent than anything printed. So here is a list of websites that I found today and thought could be interesting. I'm going to see how often they have new content and if I still like them in a few weeks, will add them to the links sidebar.

Eikongraphia
anArchitecture
BLDBLG
A Daily Dose
Tropolism
The Wooster Collective
Gravestmor
Mark Magazine
ArchRecord2

In touch/out of touch

My meeting with Thesis Advisor M generated a fair amount of momentum. Last night I e-mailed a bunch of people and read a bunch of different stuff. Now I'm waiting to hear back.

Richard Drdul has agreed to join my thesis committee: Hooray! It will be great to have a transportation engineer on the project. I'm so pleased I found his weblog. I think maybe I'll ask him to come in before the first meeting to stress that the project will never be built and therefore cost is not an issue. He also put me in touch with a fellow from UBC Properties Trust who I'm meeting on Monday to discuss the current plans for the transit exchange.

Apart from this there isn't really very much going on. Maybe I'll go home and make trouble there for a while as I wait for information to start coming in