Architectural portals & resources management

More and more architectural portals were established, flourishing the architectural blog sphere, with so much information gathered online, which portals should we go for, for the authorised and correct facts and numbers for various purposes behind each search?
We need management for them, for the information, projects, publications and portals within portals.
As if we were in the Stone Age, resources are so cheap and invaluable. Information now fluctuating the internet, online resources without control and management, is really like a stage of 'time at large'.
I think every country's registered architectural institution has the responsibilities for it, new responsibilities in the new era, new job scope for a good knowledge management, as a 'ligth house' over the intellectual properties and information in the infinite world wide web.
We all now pampered with the new armoury of internet connections that allows information to flow and reach one another easily, without hesitation, we ought to have an authority, for management, monitoring and sustainability required.

Anyway, for your browsing pleasure:-

Dexigner. with introduction of portals available.
E-architect. The site is maintained daily by Adrian and Isabelle who both trained as architects.
Top Design Box. A site that allows you to upload projects.
Nikiomahe. Similarly, archi portals for your browsing pleasure.
Architecturenewsplus.Some more projects for your browsing pleasure.

Ramblings on Design Rationality

During school days, architectural designs are cool, reflecting style, revealing thoughts and even treated as a form of art. Later years, structural issues comes in, we need columns, beams and feasibility studies adding a sense of realism. It can be built.

At work, modulation is the basis of building things.300mm, is the figure, to be able to divide or a multiplication of it. Elevations, plans, steps, stairs, tiles, window openings, door openings, storey height works well with modulation. Most importantly modulation reduces cost and manufacturing processes require a minimum number of 100 moles to be an effective process with cost incurred. With floor to wall ratio, we even now succumbed to flat elevations, to reach the most cost effective way of building things.

Flat is what we want. We design it flat, for cost saving, for modulation, for effectiveness, for energy studies, for clean surfaces.

This as industrial design for highly effective industrial manufacturing purposes, it works well and feed the purposes for cost issues.

Imagination succumbed to realism.

Bread and butter job is an industrial process, gaining the most cost effective way, yet as a designer, we opted some spice through the colors, the layout, the treatment and so on with constrains of cost.

For those who complained so much about constrains and feasibilities studies, my advice is - learn to have appreciation for it. Only effective designs are to be built and developed. I hope people nowadays would appreciate more than making complains for their daily work and I am learning to appreciate too most of the time.

Change your angle of view and there would be a different side of world opening up for you.