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Travel

Working on a Book

Sketching ideas for research in Florence, Italy.
Attending a Savannah Gilbo (editor and book coach) workshop.
My outdoor desk – writing draft 1, draft 2, draft 3 of the novel.

I’ve always enjoyed the look of working desks. After years of preparing a book idea, I am in Florence, Italy to research the details.

It started as a question during a Master’s course at Fairmont State University: How might poets and architects meet in Florence, 1865? My Italian inspiration on Instagram is @kelliecolegram.

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Architecture

Color Theory & The Salk Institute

Fairmont State University Freshman Architecture Class
Color in Context: Revisiting Albers, with Anoka Faruqee

In this Freshman level course at Fairmont State architecture students are learning to hand render in color. Color terms are reviewed and discussed as they translate into digital terms. After watching Anoka Faruquee’s video students learn about Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute and use the tools of vanishing point and color adjacency rendering to complete the image shown on the screen of the Salk Institute Plaza. Section type drawings are discussed using Kahn’s building example. At the close of the video see how you might setup the drawing to complete the Salk Institute plaza sketch!

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About Me

Drafting Invisible Cities in Revit (Part 2)

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities students are asked to sketch an imaginary city then draft it into Revit. (See the Invisible Cities Part 1 Video.) In this Part 2 video students learn how to develop a Construction Document Sheet Set with the different views required to understand their invisible city interpretation.
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Architecture

Creating Invisible Cities in Revit (Part 1)

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities students are asked to sketch an imaginary city then draft it into Revit. In this Part 1 of 2 video students learn how to create a topography and understand the scale of it by using Google Earth to compare places in Venice and NYC. Students learn to establish a base drawing by setting up Elevations. Complicated tools such as sweeps, reveals, and atypical forms are also covered.

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Architecture

Exporting Revit to Acad


Students learn to prepare an AutoCad file for use on a Laser Cutter. This drawing is exported from Revit 2022 into AutoCad 2019. Using line type layers to cut and score, students will have their house plans laser cut from chipboard after completing this video.
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Architecture

Drafting a Survey in Revit

Students learn how to draft a house survey into Revit, place drawings on a sheet and then print to PDF.
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Architecture

How to Survey a Home

This video explains what is involved in surveying a historic home. Taking exterior dimensions, using a running dimension line, and locating interior walls with a measuring tape are all explained and drawn by the architect.

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Architecture

Revit 2022 Lecture 4

Learn to draft a Follie from Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette.

Students are guided in Revit 2022 to choose and draft a Parc Follie of Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette in Paris, France.

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Architecture

Revit 2022 – Lecture 3

In this third Revit lecture students are asked to look at a project by WORKac in NYC. The new Revit commands include editing door and window families, uploading from Autodesk’s cloud library, and copying assemblies floor to floor.
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Architecture

Revit 2022 Lecture 2

Students have surveyed a Fairmont State University Campus building to develop as-built drawings in Revit. Learn how the measurements you take can become actual buildings in Revit through this lesson. Learn how to build accurate walls, floor to floor levels, ceilings and roofs.