Quiz: Test Your Architecture IQ

Here is a quick and fun quiz from Apartment Therapy.

"Think you know a balustrade from a newel? Or a louver from a flue? What characterizes colonial-style architecture, and how did painted ladies get their name? Just for fun, take this quick quiz to see just how architecturally savvy you are." 

Apartment Therapy's mission is to "help people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy by connecting them to a wealth of resources, ideas and community online."


http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/quiz-how-architecturally-savvy-are-you-187816

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Make Architecture Books Again

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Make Architecture Books Again: "is a three-weeks-old, anonymous Instagram feed that is billed as "a daily excuse to vent the stacks." Photos are posted in threes to take advantage of the Instagram grid by showing the cover, an inside spread, and a detail from one book."

http://archidose.blogspot.com/2016/07/make-architecture-books-again.html

Good or Bad or Ugly

You decide whether the modifications to the building are good, or bad, or ugly?

Here's a sneak peak - the before photo.

http://archidose.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-were-they-thinking.html

Have Some Architecture For Breakfast

Love the website. Really get a kick out of the humor category at Architecture For Breakfast.

Here's a few of my favorites.

http://architectureforbreakfast.com/category/humour/

Is It Possible For Ugly Architecture To Exist?

When I was young, we were taught that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Didn't quite understand it then. Now, those words make sense.

My personal feeling is that even "ugly architecture" can be beautified.

Besides, some architecture labeled ugly might not be ugly at all. Remember, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Let's review this blog - Ugly Modern Buildings.

Do your own before and after on that "ugly architecture."

http://uglymodernbuildings.blogspot.com/

The Best Online Architecture Blogs And Websites

Tom Ravencroft wrote the article detailing the best online architecture blogs and websites.

My previous post listed the best in 2008. Guess what, I wonder how many are on both lists? See, there was a method to the madness.

http://www.suite101.com/content/the-best-architecture-blogs-and-websites-a213324

Best of 2008: Top 25 Design & Architecture Blogs

Why best of 2008? If the blogs were good back then they should be good today and tomorrow.

Also, always fun to see if they are still around, not that we are wishing them gone. They might have even evolved?

http://trendsupdates.com/best-of-2008-top-25-design-architecture-blogs/

A Daily Dose of Architecture

An almost daily architectural musings and imagery blog from New York City.


http://archidose.blogspot.com/

Nice Architecture Related Photos

Check out The Architecture Blog.

http://architectureblog.tumblr.com/

Arch Daily Blog

Arch Daily touts itself as "the world's most visited architecture website."

You will find a lot of useful information at their website.

http://www.archdaily.com