Architecture BOOK REVIEW | Operative design + Conditional Design
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- Reviewing two architecture books: Operative Design + Conditional Design and sharing my thoughts on the kit-of-parts design methodology they promote. Together these volumes are an excellent primer on architectural form making, iterative design, and can serve as handy portable, pocket-sized reference manuals. The diagrams are beautifully composed in full-color and the accompanying text - although brief - offers enough information to guide the reader / viewer on the book’s use. Recommended for: architecture students, teachers and professionals looking to revisit first principles or reinvent their own tired formal language.
*Operative Design: A Catalogue of Spatial Verbs* amzn.to/2A6NRRf
*Conditional Design: An Introduction to Elemental Architecture* amzn.to/2gYj40l
Also mentioned in the video is this scholarly article by Timothy Love: “Kit-of-parts Conceptualism” (Harvard Design Magazine no. 19) www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/...
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Links to the books here: **Operative Design: A Catalogue of Spatial Verbs** amzn.to/2A6NRRf
**Conditional Design: An Introduction to Elemental Architecture** amzn.to/2gYj40l
30X40 Design Workshop is it free available book ???
no, not free...less than $15 USD each...practically free...
30X40 Design Workshop ok thanks sir
LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! These books! Can you do a review of "101 Things I learned in Architecture School" (www.amazon.com/Things-Learned-Architecture-School-Press/dp/0262062666) ... I find it hilarious, enlightening and a good primer for students to not over think school and just enjoy the process ;) Cheers!
Hi Eric! Could you add some amazon links for the UK as well? Would like to use the link to help out the channel!
I'm so happy that i can find a real architect being a youtuber like you, someone who share not only experience & advice, but also a lot of practical step in architecture. I'm in my 7th semester in architecture school, I used to love working on new project each semester, and I'm planning to take my master degree after i graduate, so i can learn more. But as time flies, I feel really demotivated and hopeless. Then I saw your video "Architecture Q&A", and you experience same thing as mine, being terrible, giving up. But you overcome it succesfully. Do you have more tips or advice for me, or probably some student out there that feel like giving up architecture, when we, deep down, actually love it ?
Sorry for the long post Eric. Keep up the good video :)
you might check this one out, it deals with a similar issue: czcams.com/video/UwGO3UjXyZ0/video.html
30X40 Design Workshop Thanks Eric !
Jordan McLaughlin Thanks Jordan ! I'm planning on taking Master Design Architecture, i guess should also consider thaking Landscape.
I've been investigating ways to rekindle romances and discovered a fantastic resource at adult magic tactic (google it if you are interested)
I have been binge watching all of your videos all day! Thank you for giving me motivation and inspiration as I head into my second year of architecture school
I really like your channel, I find it interesting and very objectively developed. Keep up the great work!
These books are amazing. I bought them in January and they already helped me a lot! As a student who is still building my spacial vocabulary these books serves as a dictionary. I'm surprised that you decided to make a review on them, it helped me to use their content even better! Thank you!
cheers...
Just received your Architect + Entrepreneur Vol 1. in the mail, Eric. Can't wait to jump into it! Thank you again for sharing your videos and advice with all of us!
thanks for supporting my work +Casey Blake...appreciate it...
I would love to see a review of your previous architecture projects and models, you are really inspirational and I love your editing and video making.
appreciate the kind words...cheers...
thank you so much for this review. I have had these in my Wishlist for the last month so it might be time to pull the trigger.
cheers my friend...holidays are coming soon...
I bought Operative Design a few weeks back. I was confused about the usage procedure in the beginning but I felt that I can pick any of the forms; add and subtract them to gain ideas and you just confirmed that. Thanks!!
glad it was helpful...
You would be a very inspiring professor, Eric. I love your work! Congratulations, man.
kind words my friend...many thanks...
Thank you for this. Please do more book reviews w/ additional architectural thoughts!
any suggestions...?
Great video, these are going to be one of the next purchases 🏆 for my generative and computational design. I hope they cover the fundamentals in terms of the topic of primitive geometry 🤞🏾
I have to say, that it would be awesome to dive into your library. Although its beneficial to build our own, it would be exciting to know all of the books behind you and to delve into the unknown.
Thanks for your videos. It’s really delighting.
Thank you for the video! Very nice work!
I bought these two. Wanted to use your link, to help you out, but I'm in the UK. Thanks for the great videos!
Thank you for your input and recommendations. Hope to see you in NYC on Saturday. :-)
cheers...see you Saturday...!
great review.
I am convinced and going to Strand bookstore no broadway tomorrow morning.
Hi! Thank you so much for all your efforts. Keep up the good job.
I have a request.... Please do a video on architecture for the blind.... Or architecture for the senses if possible. Thank you
I love all your videos
Eric! Your editing is ON POINT, and seems to get better all the time. What setup/filming/editing/YT production resources could you suggest for a fellow sole-practitioner looking to document his process & practice?
appreciate it my friend...kind of you to say...
equipment I'm using is in the video description: 70D with 24-70 2.8L series lens and/or 10-18 with IS for moving stuff. edit in FCPX...but...I started just using my iPhone and iMovie in 2013 (those are some tough vids to watch). Gear doesn't matter really, its how you treat the craft...I recommend starting with what you have, the first stuff might be really bad but very few will be watching so it's a chance to hone your skills...keep making things consistently, that's the best thing you can do. hope that helps!
Thanks. Was there a resource you used for learning iM and/or FCPX? Or did you just dive into it? Have an iPhone, an "old" DSLR (2008) & a tripod, but it's the editing that has me scratching my head as I try to run a business and raise a 2-year old at the same time... :D
Do you want to hear my story?Lol I guess I am telling it. . . .
I am using the resources I have at home first!! So if I get into a design/ drafting program that is more hands on. I will be able to jump on the projects and not have to do so much reading...Just utilizing resources. I have been designing homes in my mind since I was 8 and now need to work on drawing them drafting them on the paper and computer. I have some residential design experience AIO. But am moving on with ideas to getting a more hands-on approach. I am over my largest road-block a 25+ year struggle with bipolar I. Now getting back into the designing/ artistic aspects of designing feels lovely again. Who knows how it will come about. But I am sure glad to be watching your channel and having some of my design questions answered. Thank you
thanks for so openly sharing your story...and nice to (virtually) meet you...
I gott them both along with Siteless by Blanciak and they made a great collection. Thank you for the recommendatin.
enjoy...!
Thank you for charing :) and for your time :)
These sound really neat, im not an architect or planning to be but i am into design and i am most interested in the process of making a design language, i find some appeal to abstract forms and shapes like this and they arent really that limiting, take power tools for instance, they have a certain forms that have to be included because they require the machinery to function, and yet different brands have somewhat distinct design languages even though the overal shapes are relatively the same.
When drawing in perspective its common to learn to construct forms by fitting them in a box, the box doesnt decide the form, it just gives you a reference point, these arent much different, just a tool to imagine forms in space, a starting point to further alter as you see fit.
I should do something similar, build my own library(folder or puref file) of shapes/forms like this, theres an artist i find interesting who uses a modular approach to projects, thomas scholes, hes on artstation.
thanks for sharing your insights...appreciate it!
之前不是很理解这两本书，看了这个视频之后收获很大！
Two of my favorite books.
Hi Eric, I can't thank you enough for your advice and insights that you have kindly shared throughout your videos, they are helping me so much in my studies. I'm a 2nd year Architectural Technology & the Environment (ATE) student and I initially began my studies in Architecture but soon switched to ATE as it felt more my style. I still find myself struggling with some aspects of my studies, as in diagramming in a concise and informative way, and also learning the Architectural language to aid in conveying my ideas/concepts. I continually re-read Ching's books and others to try and learn, and I get the concept, it is just applying it to the real world I struggle with at times. Maybe I am missing something or am not being confident enough in my messages/ideas? I'm a mature student and I am more technically minded rather than artistic, but I can draw and I enjoy it when I get going, it's just that I find myself in a mental block at times as to how to begin diagramming or sketching in analysis or designs, so if you have any plans on producing an insight into diagramming then I would be really grateful.
I'm still looking through your catalogue of videos and those that I've watched so far are all packed with great information, so thank you, thank you, thank you :)
This video on the book reviews was brilliant! I'll be adding these to my wishlist (xmas gift ideas list) as they are great at providing inspiration.
Another great video! I'm so glad I found your channel :)
Amelia
hi amelia...welcome...glad you found the channel too...!
i talk about diagramming in this video: czcams.com/video/R7YxG4nsqeg/video.html
I couldn't resonate with this more! It is my 3rd semester as an architect student and our professors are "brainwashing" us with this same methodology - that we must build our kit first with various shapes and relationships through abstract means. I hope to carry these lessons throughout my career.
i remember being so anxious to dig in on designing 'real buildings' too...right away...soon...real soon...
I am right there with you. I had been struggling with the notion of transformation. Keeping that same family together without completely changing the whole look of it. At the same time I didn’t want it it to be such a simple look to it.Seriously Eric you should teach, insure there would be quite a few people that would agree. Great job as always, wish this would have been 4-5 weeks ago though;). Look forward to the next one and congrats on the film.
Eric thanks for all you tutorials have learnt from them and apply them to my Architectural projects what I don't understand is the wind paths and sun paths can you recommend books or videos about this
Am a Architectural student and doing some voluntary work to get the knowledge and doing a security job at the same time am using my security work as a bridge tilo get into Architecture
Tks peter phillipd
You need to get Architectural Diagrams 1: Construction and Design Manual and Container and Modular Buildings: Construction and Design Manual too, they're as good as those 2 you got there. I'm in love with the diagram's book, is just a giant bomb of inspiration/learning for think-drawing.
fantastic...thanks for the recommendation...I'll have to check those out...
Hi, is there any recommend architecture book for non-architect? I want to understand the basic.
Just thank you so much I am going to classes now
always a student...
bang on, as usual ^^
These are the basics of parametric architecture. The idea of approaching architecture from a rational point of view throws the practitioner into the fields of geometry, algebra, analysis and logic.
These books are the basis for rational thinking. Grasshopper 3D and Dynamo becomes natural tools for such endeavors. However pencil and paper will never ever be replaced such as physical model making. These are the tools that motivates rational thinking.
Those are great books.
30×40 is my favorite
great !!!!
Please make a tutorial video on how to use brown paper to make a landmass/contours.
Regards
Masud
so many topics! so little time...! thanks for the suggestion my friend, I'll see what I can do...
I'm an artist and find your videos inspiring and helpful. I've had trouble finding what the word Program means in Architecture. Could you explain this please? Thank you.
I Love your videos
thanks...appreciate it!
I would like to thank you personally for sharing your architectural knowledge.
Can you please give some tips when presenting an architectural project.
Also Is the presentation going to take a different path if the audience are investors or professors ? if yes please explain.
thank you again
Nasser Alajmi
glad you're finding the videos helpful...
i'll see what i can do to answer your questions in a future video...audience should change how and what you present, they have different needs, right? cheers...
Thank you
hey eric thanks for this amazing video .
can i request a video that talk about your methodology to come up with this amazing architecture ?
thanks my friend...check out this video: czcams.com/video/R7YxG4nsqeg/video.html
30X40 Design Workshop WOW just WOW
thanks Eric.
Really liked n appreciate thanks alot
you're welcome my friend...thanks for watching...
Eric..what you think is best approach to a design problem...form follows function or function follows form?
yes.
tx I like your take on design..... pretty much :) Tx!
thanks (pretty much)
Thank you!!!
cheers...
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I love how you open a door for a cat
mind control.
I've been drooling for those books for ages. for some reason I haven't gotten them
great library addition...i was a little surprised by their size (in a good way)...
Hey Erick, I have been learning a lot from your videos, I´m a arch student. Maybe you could do a giveaway of those books, I think I can learn a lot (also im not in the US so I can´t buy them)
Keep up the GREAT WORK
glad you're finding the videos helpful...
This might sound more like a subjective question but how can you distinguish a good architecture from a bad one in case of school design .?
that's an extremely complex topic to dig into here...good architecture solves myriad problems artfully. i'm sorry i can't do better than that in this format...!
I Like the video
Hello I'm going to start my architecture classes next week...I love drowning and making things...My question Is.Is it too hard to learn architecture?and can I get enough time to do music watch movies and go to picnic?
of course...anything worth doing takes hard work...
you might check out these this video that talks about how I balance work-life: czcams.com/video/nLUU6wcA3qE/video.html
and this one on time management: czcams.com/video/fUxmTKnK304/video.html
I'm a regular visitor for your site....I'm civil site engineer but I more interested in design field I need your advice
Thanks
of course...
I can only get one. Which one?
Never mind. I went with the higher reviewed.
sorry i'm late to the party...i have a slight preference for the context that the first one: operative design...hard to go wrong with either...
Do u have other books that u recommend?
here are my essentials: czcams.com/video/B-_QtKl5IkU/video.html
and here's a playlist with book reviews I've done: czcams.com/play/PLuJj3iQpiK3vNVT6AXtmOk8KfWgAaLfh1.html
these books are really cheap and look awesome, I hope buy it before christmas. :)
tasty stuff...you won't regret it...
cheers
Yes I have the second book! It’s interesting to see how spaces can better relate and connect to each other; forms are great for modern residential architecture imo! (๑･̑◡･̑๑)
100% agree...cheers...
It's so sad sending this book could be super expensive for me...
I really love your videos, but you could try to talk a little slower for your non-native english speaking audience understand better what you are saying ;D
Your cat appears to be a lynx point short hair, just like mine.
half wolverine...
Reminds me of Lego instruction books :p
right on...a subliminal appeal to the inner-child...
Design encompasses a broad range of objects and functions. These small books are far from ideal because of the way they are bound. This style of book does not lay flat when it is opened. This is problematic for books you may want to reference often. You want these kinds of books to lay flat on your desk and not have to hold them open to the pages you want to study.
How much money did you make out of this video?
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