tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80905592324410453792012-01-10T11:35:57.238-08:00the art of ArchitectureVernita Bridges Hoythttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01129469305365101640noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090559232441045379.post-22779931744301561832011-02-04T19:28:00.000-08:002011-02-04T19:33:06.255-08:00

Since the attic had been just an attic, there was no stairway in the house.  I designed a new custom stairway and provided plans and construction documents for the builder to use.  Below is an image of the new Craftsman style stairway leading from the first floor library/study into the now master bedroom suite  that replaced the former attic space.

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Here is a link to Frank Gehry's newest building. I have learned to appreciate Frank Gehry's architecture as sculpture ... Gehry's buildings are the epitome of ART you can walk through.

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The back dormer (right side) was added to expand floorspace and headroom in the attic of this Houston Heights Bungalow. Much attention was given to designing the roof pitches, eaves, windows and trim to relate to the existing house for a seamless integration between old and new.

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I hope Apple doesn't take this proposal seriously. What an eyesore of a building! http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/rumor_apple_considering_norman_foster_for_new_campus_design/

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Fifth year students at University of Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture are exposed to real world design problems. Design Studio has changed considerably since I graduated. Now students are using computers to aid in the studio design process, something they will need in the real world. I learned CAD at the College of Technology and used it independently on my architecture projects.

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Is Mary Ellen Carroll a genius, a shrewd artist, or just too overloaded with funds?  Click on her name for a link to the New York Times article about her plans to rotate a house 180 degrees in Houston's Sharpstown community. Better still is the Houston Chronicle blog article which contains a video of Carroll talking about the planned project. Read. Watch. Tell me what you think.

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I am intrigued by this Conceptual Art and think clicking through to this site is worth it. http://www.leandroerlich.com.ar/works.php?id=27

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architectural rendering pastel on vellum for Southern National Bank Proposal Sugar Land, Texas copyright Vernita Bridges Hoyt 1993, 2007 all rights reserved This 1993 architectural rendering was used for a presentation to Southern National Bank in Sugar Land, Texas. The owner and developer desired a bank building that looked like Thomas Jefferson's Monticello residence. The pastel rendering

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This is the overall context sketch I did for a prototype visitor center to be located along the International Rift between Canada and the USA. This was a college project when I was in 4th year architecture studio at the University of Houston. I came across the original sketches and thought I would share them on the blog. The sketches measure 5x5 inches and are rendered with Conte pencil and

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I was asked: Would you mind elaborating on what you mean in "I had discovered people who processed thought exactly as I did?" I thought I would be right back to answer this question within a few hours. Instead, I got a poison ivy rash that lasted for three weeks. Just getting over that, I was bitten by my friendly, passive pet cat. The cat bite on my ankle quickly infected overnight, and I spent

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It hardly seems possible that it was 21 years ago when I first entered the massive oaken doors at the University of Houston College of Architecture, now known as the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. I was 41 years old at the time and thought I was too old to be starting college, especially a program that took five years minimum of focused, intensive study and hard work. Encouraged by my

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It is as fitting a thing for a man to build his own home as it is for a bird to build its own nest. --Henry David Thoreau

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Architecture is shelter, yet not all shelter is Architecture.Architecture is more than embellishment. It is design, planning, balance, circulation, engineering and art all rolled into the creation of a building. Although today building design can be controlled by a developer, the architecture is only as good as it works for the end user, i.e. the occupant.

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Which came first--art or architecture? It could be argued that first was architecture, a place to live, a place for protection, a home where within one could hang artworks. Yet paintings were found within the Palaeolithic caves of Lasqaux long before man desired architectural design. The prehistoric paintings present a reverse argument that art preceded architecture. Natural caverns in the earth

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With this blog I hope to initiate some discussion comments and show you some of my projects.Architecture has been called the "mother of all arts" and that could present a good discussion topic for starters. I first heard that phrase twenty years ago when I was in architectural history classes at the University of Houston. I really did not think too much about it until I became more involved with

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