Owen's
Bits
Architecture
has long been of interest to me, it affects such a large proportion of
our lives, - where we live and work, how we work, feel and react to our
environment. Architecture has an impact on the natural environment as well
as affecting the way we react to the natural environment.
 Design
affects everthing we do, though more often than not we only notice poor
aspects of a design. Good design, should function and fit so well that
the object, layout or building itself is not really noticed during use,
while at the same time should be able to be appreciated aesthetically.
Residential
landscape design can create spaces, moods or microclimates that
may extend the internal rooms of a house into the garden, and/or blend
the architecture into the surrounding environment. Check
this out!
Cosmology:
One could say that looking into the cosmos is like looking at the ultimate
design, or into the grandest laboratory of all, and seeing every experiment
in progress at every stage in its development or evolution. Without the
basic laws of the cosmos we would not exist. -
Light
and existence and design are pretty much intermixed and I don't think that
the textbooks are completely written on any or all of those subjects yet.
 My
interest in computingbegan in the early 1980's when software began
to emerge that enabled architectural working drawings to be generated on
a computer, (albeit at that stage rather cumbersomely), and accurate star
atlas software then started to become available. As software and computers
have developed my uses of them have developed, and are continuing to develop
at an ever increasing rate.
Computer
Aided Design is also an important component of my life as it integrates
so efficiently and effectively with my other interests relating to design
and architecture, which when combined with internet technologies as a publication
medium,introduces a new dimension to the growing trend for designers to
work collaboratively. The combined forces of the efficiency of C.A.D. and
the imediacy of the internet are beginning to engender a new collegial
spirit where a designer anywhere in the world can work with any other designer
stationed anywhere else in the world.
Education:
I lecture in Architectural and Computer Aided Design papers, in the school
of Architecture
and Building at the Otago
Polytechnic, New Zealand
Web
Site Design. A growing interestof mine, in line with my love of design,
is internet site and page design. .........
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