All Features articles – Page 240
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Paint the town
3D ‘painting’ tool Piranesi has been updated. Nick Pickop, director of architectural visualisation firm Tekuchi, puts it through its paces
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Helpdesk
Spam pestSpam — it’s a nightmare. Is there anything I can do to control it?Henrik Kiertzner replies: In practical terms, there are ways of configuring more modern email clients - Outlook 2003, for example - to identify and delete spam automatically. An alternative would be to contract with one of ...
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Death of the pencil
Across eArchitect’s four pages there are very few images that could be described as “architectural” in the traditional sense.
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Follow the leaders
They may be outnumbered six to one, but that hasn’t stopped women making an impact in every area of the profession. As part of our 50/50 Campaign, we celebrate a dozen successful women who are blazing a trail
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Minimal Max
3D Studio Max has been updated, but is it too little too soon? BD arranged for Piercy Conner Architects and visualising firm Smoothe to try out version 7
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New year wish lists
To kick off eArchitect — our revitalised IT section — we asked a wide range of architects to send a message to the computer industry. Below, they outline what the priorities of IT providers should be in 2005
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Helpdesk
Each month readers can email us with IT-related queries, which will be published anonymously. Our Helpdesk team (independent IT consultant Stephen Pacey and Henrik Kiertzner, IT chief at Arup) will attempt to solve your queries — but readers are also invited to submit answers of their own.
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Radar: Tim Evans
Books Currently sitting on my bedside table are a diverse collection of books: Karaoke Capitalism by Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom, one of the most engaging books on running a business; George Monbiot’s The Age of Consent, which proposes a world with free trade and proportionally represented world government; and ...
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Taking out the guesswork
Can computer programs bring scientific rationality to design solutions?