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andremostert@bdpmedia.com
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 Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:43 am Post subject: isometric drawings of engineering wonders |
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Hi
I am working as part of a project to support the National Teaching and Learning Change Programme in the UK for Level 2 Engineering, I was wondering if anyone knows where I might be able to find some isometric drawings of some of the worlds engineering wonders. The teaching aim is to have learners use these drawings to try and establish what they are looking at, they will have clues of course. Any help would be most welcome. Thanks Andre |
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Ed Ziomek
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: Not quite what you are asking for, but maybe a start... |
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Andre...I too am fascinated by the drawings of famous locations. Unfortunately, I do not have access to zero isometric drawings of such locations.
However, as a hobby, I have collected amazing drawing examples from around the internet and around the world, not exactly what you had hoped for, but an amazing set of visual graphics if I may say so.
Hope this is some help....I am focusing on ancient architecture structures, including the pyramids of ancient Mexico and Egypt.
My favorite resource on this topic has always been Alex Sokolowski's World-Mysteries.com website...including the articles...
#1. The Pyramids of Giza vs the Pyramids of Teotihuacan
http://www.world-mysteries.com/gizavsteotihuacan.htm
#2. Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_17.htm#Links
"The Fibonacci numbers are Nature's numbering system. They appear everywhere in Nature, from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower, the bracts of a pinecone, or the scales of a pineapple. The Fibonacci numbers are therefore applicable to the growth of every living thing, including a single cell, a grain of wheat, a hive of bees, and even all of mankind." .....-Stan Grist
Other amazing mathematical and geometric websites that support architecture are the following....
Pythagoras and Sacred Geometry
The squared circle,
Danny Yanez Gonzalez
http://dyg2.tripod.com/id6.html
Was Maya Pyramid Designed to Chirp Like a Bird?
Bijal Travedi
National Geographic Today
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1206_021206_TVMayanTemple.html
Oliver Byrne's edition of Euclid
http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Euclid/byrne.html
Equiangular Spiral
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Equiangular.html
Golden Ratio and Rule of Thirds, by Robert Berdan (from COMPOSITION & the ELEMENTS of VISUAL DESIGN)
http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/
Note: Many of these have been discussed on this designcommunity.com Fireside Forum thread called... Geometric Design Found Among the Nazca Lines...
http://search.artifice.com/forums/topic-8501.html
Good luck, and keep posting!
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Ed Ziomek
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject: Great Buildings...from Architecture Week.... |
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Andre... I may have found a more interesting source....
From the parent Architecture Week organization..... and this website's owner....
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
"Welcome to architecture online, the leading architecture reference site on the web, GreatBuildings.com. This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, ideas, and trends, GreatBuildings.com is richly cross-linked with ArchitectureWeek, the leading architecture magazine online, and Archiplanet, the community-created all-buildings collection..."
Note: I found this in my research of great buildings of the past, which included references to Andrea Palladio of the Renaissance era...
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Andrea_Palladio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladio
Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history of Western architecture.
He was born Andrea di Pietro della Gondola in Padua, then part of the Republic of Venice. Apprenticed as a stonecutter in Padua when he was 13, he broke his contract after only 18 months and fled to the nearby town of Vicenza. Here he became an assistant in the leading workshop of stonecutters and masons. He frequented the workshop of Bartolomeo Cavazza, from whom he learned some of his skills.
Villa Barbaro
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/barbaro.html
Villa Cornaro
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/cornaro.html
Cilla Emo
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/emo.html
Villa Foscari (La Malcontenta)
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/malcontenta.html
Villa Almerico (La Rotonda)
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/rotonda.html
Chiswick House, in the Palladium Villa style, in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, London W4, England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiswick_House
background information....
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/intro.html
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/analysis.html
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