Featured Skills: Sally & Obie Díaz
29 September 2009, 15:43
Sally Díaz, a member of the B/A team, and her husband Obie Diaz of StudioRED Architects were able to lend their illustration skills for Summer 2009 issue of Cite Magazine. The illustrations, which were accomplished with a combination of...
Pics of the Week: Sound
23 September 2009, 19:41
Although sound is invisible in nature, its characteristics can still be visualized through the contextual surroundings. Traces of sound or, in some cases, the absence of sound, can leave behind visual clues when captured as a still frame. When viewing...
Pics of the Week: Scale
9 September 2009, 21:59
The notion of scale can be interpreted in many ways. It can be associated with an instrument of measurement, the skin surface of animals, or even the act of climbing. From a design standpoint, it is understood as the proportion...
Pics of the Week: Portraits
2 September 2009, 14:51
Portraits are a classic form of art and photography that often places a person (or representation of a person) as the main focus of the scene. This particular style of photography has been around for as long as the camera...
Pics of the Week: Connections
8 July 2009, 20:18
This week, we decided to focus on the idea of Connections which can be described as a causal or contextual relationship between objects. The challenge was to visually interpret what we thought would convey this relationship through our photographs. The...
Sigg-nificant
25 June 2009, 12:18
Plastic water bottles have been a topic of concern for many years. It’s no secret that they produce tons of waste each year with only a small percentage that actually gets recycled. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86% of plastic water bottles used in the U.S. end up in landfills, or as litter. As much as we continue to push for recycling, the …
Pics of the Week: Letter "O"
27 May 2009, 20:02
This week, we asked our contributors to explore and photograph their interpretations of the letter ‘O’. Be it literal or abstract, its universal form is encountered in most everyday experiences at just about any location. From a typographic representation to...
Video: Concrete Opinion
21 April 2009, 19:06
Concrete Opinion is a video project that is an analysis of Houston through the words and opinions of architecture students. The video is divided into two parts, the subjectivity and the objectivity…
