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DESIGN SHOWCASES
ARTICLES
VIDEOS / LECTURE SERIES
RESEARCH
Did you know your LTU login gives you free access to the world's best databases and resources for architectural and design research?
Popular for Architecture:
Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals
Published by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, this database indexes journal articles on architecture and design, covering subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design.
MCAD
Standards and Code Books used in Architecture and Building. Includes the IBC 2018 and the Michigan Building Code 2015 with hyperlink references.
Popular for Architecture:
Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals
Published by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, this database indexes journal articles on architecture and design, covering subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design.
MCAD
Standards and Code Books used in Architecture and Building. Includes the IBC 2018 and the Michigan Building Code 2015 with hyperlink references.
TUTORIALS
Did you know it also gives you free access to a world of tutorials for self-learning? Many come with example files to follow along. Here are some of our favorites:
Grasshopper / Computational Design / Visual Coding:
Parametric House
Parametric House
- Rhino Grasshopper tutorials. Free and premium. Instagram @parametrichouse.
- Parametric Monkey is a digital design consultancy which offers specialist architecture, BIM, computational design, and digital fabrication expertise...
- Hydra is a web platform to share your example files from Grasshopper and Dynamo.
- Plug-in Community Service for Rhino and Grasshopper.
- A self-paced course in Python scripting led by Carl Lostritto from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) who lectured at LTU in October 2019
- Lectures and workshops collected on YouTube from AIA Detroit's co.de.D. You can even find a lecture on how LTU's East Residence Hall was designed computationally!
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