…and these are his thoughts.

Christoff of anArchitecture posted about this video of Crayon Physics Deluxe a few days ago:

He writes: “Imagine if you could do this with your CAD drawings - a different way of drafting.”

This got me thinking about another interesting application of this technology: architectural education. Picture a game where students are given a kit-of-parts, perhaps a big pile of bluestone and sarsen blocks, and they are asked to re-construct Stonehenge. How’s that for interacting with history? Or give them a bunch of bricks and have them build an arch, a dome, a barrel vault and a groin vault. Let them explore cantilevers, and push tensile structures to their limits. Structures class 2.0.

Key point: they’d be doing all of this with pens, not calculators. They’d be drawing, not taking notes. The muscles of their hands would be forever connected to their understanding of the physics of architecture.

All of this from a crayon game.

Graffiti almost always frustrates me. This video illustrates why I have to include the ‘almost’: because sometimes it’s just brilliant. In this case, the artist has set graffiti in motion. Drab walls come alive with strange humanoid creatures with even stranger habits. Characters jump from building to building, crawl onto the sidewalk, climb back up the wall, and eat bulletins. It is spectacular, if a bit disturbing.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Today is a certain family member’s birthday, but since he’s out of town there will be no party, and no party means no cake. So in lieu of a real cake, here are some pictures of cakes. These are no ordinary cakes, though. These are edible edifices. Modern buildings rendered in flour and sugar. V(an)illa Savoyes. Somebody stop me.

First, a cake modeled after Perronet House in London: “…ingredients included four chocolate loaves, two boxes of chocolate fingers, a packet of bourbons, six custard creams, a family pack of own label “chocolate break” biscuits, ground nuts, rice paper, fabric flowers and one chocolate mini-roll.” Nice landscaping, too. Click on image for a closer look.

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How great would that be if your final model was a cake? Imaging cutting it up, right there in front of the jury, and handing out section slices on plates with forks.

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