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Deck Building Part 2

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:37:43 +0000

How to build a large deck part 2

Duration : 0:6:53

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Home Building Trends: Modular Housing Home Design – Build TV

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:37:28 +0000

Examines home building trends in the area of modular housing. New modular homes may not be what you think. Modular housing accounts for 40,000 housing starts per year.

Duration : 0:5:23

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Building the Torchwood hub – Torchwood Declassified – BBC

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:39:48 +0000

Actors, directors and writers of Torchwood give first hand accounts of what it is like to work on such an impressive set. Watch this free video showing how the hub was built – from BBC worldwide.

Watch more Torchwood: Declassified from BBC Worldwide here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=83001D5C15B5C62F

Duration : 0:0:54

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Build To Own System

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:39:26 +0000

G&W Architects, Engineers, Project Development Consultants – Build To Own [BTO] System

- Penhurst Parkplace
- Kensington Place
- Grand Hamptons Tower I
- Grand Hamptons Tower II
- Sapphire Residences
- Blue Sapphire Residences
- Crescent Park Residences

Duration : 0:2:9

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The Green Building Energy by Design

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:33:57 +0000

energy recovery, Geothermal solar panels

Duration : 0:6:3

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Urban Space – Architectural Photography

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:33:51 +0000

QT movie based on still architectural photographs, shot on Nikon D2X, imported into the Macbook, edited in iMove, making extensive use of the Ken Burns effect. Soundtrack created using loops in Garageband.

Duration : 0:4:30

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Do-It-Ourself Home Design

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:33:47 +0000

eCustomHomePlans.com provides convenient professional house design floor and layout plans for building your dream home from an accomplished designer at stock plan prices. Kevin A. Yeager, professional home designer, provides direct advice and consultation on design and building processes to ensure you get what you want.

Duration : 0:2:23

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Interior Design

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:33:33 +0000

Interior Design: Live. Work. Play. Design. Think interior design is knowing which drapes match the carpet? Go beyond mere decoration and explore the exciting field of interior design. Combining the skills of architecture and science with the creative talent of the artist, interior designers are in demand. With a degree in interior design from Washington State University you can go anywhere. Learn more about the career possibilities in this short video.

Duration : 0:3:26

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Richard Neutra and his Kaufmann Desert House

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:17:24 +0000

searching for the Kaufmann Desert House, using Google Map a walk through with the Street View around the Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann Desert House.
http://architecturaltechnologies.blogspot.com/2009/01/richard-neutra-and-his-kaufmann-desert.html

Duration : 0:2:52

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Myth of foreign origin or domination of Mali culture – Also Myth of Arabs bringing Mali architecture

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:17:11 +0000

To show the spread of ideas as going in both directions

“Timbuctoo the mysterious” By Félix Dubois

http://books.google.com/books?id=OYELAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA285

“The scholars of Timbuctoo yielded in nothing to the saints and their miracles. During their sojourns in the foreign universities of Fez, Tunis, and Cairo, ‘ they astounded the most learned men of Islam by their erudition.’ That these negroes were on a level with the Arabian savants is proved by the fact that they were installed as professors in Morocco and Egypt. In contrast to this we find that the Arabs were not always equal to the requirements of Sankore. ‘ A celebrated jurist of Hedjaz (Arabia), arriving in Timbuctoo with the intention of teaching, found the town full of Sudanese scholars. Observing them to be his superiors in knowledge, he withdrew to Fez, where he succeeded in obtaining employment.’”

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This article discusses the myth of an introduction of architecture to Mali from outsiders “Al-Sahili : the historian’s myth of architectural technology transfer from North Africa” by Suzan B. Aradeon

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jafr_0399-0346_1989_num_59_1_2279

Read this translation of Ibn Khaldun “The Negroland of the Arabs examined and explained” page 61-65. Ibn Khaldun NEVER said architecture in west Africa was introduced by outsiders. He also makes it clear this part of Africa already had great cities and WAS NOT developed because of Arab involvement.

Page 64 in this book you see Ibn Khaldun said “showed a model for an edifice” other translations that say introduce architecture are wrong

On page 61 Ibn Khaldun starts out:

” When the conquest of the West (by the Arabs) was completed, and merchants began to penetrate into the interior, they saw no nation of the Blacks so mighty as Ghanah, the dominions of which extended westward as far as the Ocean. The King’s court was kept in the city of Ghanah, which, according to the author of the Book of Roger (El Idrisi), and the author of the Book of Roads and Realms (El Bekri), is divided into two parts, standing on both banks of the Nile, and ranks among the largest and most populous cities of the world.”

http://books.google.com/books?id=380NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA61

Video is from “Paradise Found – Islamic Architecture from Timbuktu to Asia” by Waldemar Januszczak

The mosque of Djene goes in well as an example African art, the community together working with mud looks like fun

Can see the whole video link bellow:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Paradise-Found-Islamic-Architecture-from-Timbuktu-to-Asia

About what the narrator said regarding the age of Djene, I feel obliged to point out Kerma is thousands of years older

Duration : 0:9:38

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