Friday, January 03, 2003

The Courtyard House: "It should be noted that the courtyard house emerged as both an urban and rural prototype. Its key characteristic, however, is not its context but rather that it represents a fundamentally different conception of space from the Northern European house form. In the courtyard house, outdoor space is captured and included in the residential volume and ultimately becomes the heart of its morphology. This is an arid region concept that serves its climate well. In contrast to this, the Northern European prototype uses the house form to distinguish between indoor space and outdoor space and is fundamentally conceived as excluding and protecting the inhabitants from the often cruel and unforgiving climate. Thus a house or a building becomes an object in a field of outdoor space or a figure on a background. Probably the best example of this approach is a North American suburban home: a 40 x 40 ft object sitting in the midst of a 60 x 100 ft lot. The house self protectively turns in on itself. It represents a compact enclosure of what is indoors; everything else is outdoors. The courtyard house has a fundamentally different view of the relationship of indoor space to outdoor space. In the patio or court yard home, the house itself is an interlocking combination of indoor and outdoor spaces that together make up the house. More importantly, the character and scale of the outdoor space is not significantly different than that of the indoor space. In a sense, the house is made up of a variety of rooms, some with roofs and others without. The patios or courtyards are simply rooms without roofs." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 1:30:55 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Great Ideas Here! Dave Winer, job seeker.. Dave Winer, software pioneer and entrepreneur, is on the market. Believe it or not I'm applying for a job in academia, so it's time to put together my curriculum vitae. It's a fancy name for a resume. Basically, the job I want to do is the one I have been doing, with some extras (like teaching), but not in the context of a commercial software company. more... I think Dave is following his heart. He may have had his fill for now of the daily small business owner grind. And UserLand may be poised for new management and new directions. We'll stay tuned. p.s. Now is the time for Dave to make weblogs more useful in job search. Start by acknowledging that CVs are made from microcontent. Then... Support HR-XML "Resume" protocol, syndicate CVs via RSS. Create a blogging user and programmatic interface for creating and maintaining a CV. Make it easy to associate posts with specific jobs, projects, and skills. Make job availability clearly visible. Blogging tools should turbocharge your career search.   [a klog apart's Bloggers for Hire] [Phil Wolff: Blue Sky Radio] 1:27:59 PM    trackback []     Articulate []