Practical 2 Reflection

2255 in the night


My topic is discuss the developments of residential architecture.

Website 1 (personal), www.calatrava.com/main.htm
A list of projects, publications, awards and biography of architect Santiago Calatrava.

Website 2 (organisational), http://www.scdaarchitects.com/web/index.html
This website displays a list of project portfolio, profile, people and contacts of SCDA Architects. Their works consist of houses, condominiums, hospitality, commercial/institutional, interior and master planning.

Website 3 (subject-based), http://www.residentialarchitect.com/
Home buildings news, home design ideas and building products for architects. This website provides a list of magazine issues (past and present). Their design awards, news and trend of design practice. Latest project specification, guides to manufacturers, articles and links. It also provides a forum for the public to pen down their discussions.

Websit 4 (personal), http://www.zaha-hadid.com/
A list of projects, publications, studio works, exhibition and galleries on Architect Zaha Hadid. She did residential project consisting of cultural, infrastructure, master planning and commercial.

Forums, http://students7.autodesk.com/?nd=m_ask
Architecture and Design, student engineering & design community forum. A forums where the public can post questions or answer the questions post by the public. The posts are being categories in vary topics in this forum.


The facilities I used is mainly google and yahoo.

The keywords I used for doing my research is development of residential architecture, residential architecture, residential architecture forum, santiago calatrava, scda, zaha hadid.
Sometime if I type just a word "architecture", the results I have is millions and millions of pages as it is too general, hence I need to type in more keywords like "development of residential architecture" in order for me to achieve more relevant and accurate results.

Personal websites are of an indivivual who publish he/she website. The information on a personal website is about an indivivual. Such as www.calatrava.com. In this website of an master architect, he published his work, portfolio and biograhy about himself. Whereas oraganisational and subject-based which do not have information on a person only. Oraganisational websites are websites belong to companies, oragansation or goverment. Which give nformation about the particular company, their background or contacts. Subject-based are websites containing information of news, updates, trends etc of a particular stuff, eg. sports, products, fashion.



it is 2318 in the night





Interior Architecture and Design
Year 2

"less is more"