How easy/hard was it? In the process of making my house into 3D version, the easy part is to make the two sided roof house that we’ve learned in class, as well as the base of the house. The hardest… Continue Reading
A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic, January 23,… Continue Reading
Welcome to my home! I tried my best to use the tools that we learned from last week’s Thursday class. However, I didn’t really try to experiment too much with other tools, I just stuck to what I knew. In… Continue Reading
In her recent scholarship, Nakamura examines the exploitation of indigenous women’s labor in the construction of digital devices. Far from saying people of color are not engaged in digital humanities, Nakamura’s work begs for a recentering of the conversation on… Continue Reading
How was it? Having previous experience with architectural software in Autodesk Revit, I had high hopes for the possibilities of SketchUp and my ability to recreate my home. Unfortunately, my last experience was in 2017! I found the feel of… Continue Reading
For the SketchUp Lab I modeled my house in SketchUp mostly from memory. I encountered many challenges because this was my first time using SketchUp, but I am happy with the finished product. Continue Reading
During the first stage of the pandemic back in early 2020, I responded to boredom and my architectural curiosity by learning to use SketchUp. I was pleasantly surprised to find ourselves beginning this term with a fun, familiar program. I… Continue Reading
This was my second time using SketchUp. The first time I used the tool I was a middle schooler with few digital skills and so I remember the program being a lot more difficult to navigate than it actually was. … Continue Reading
Modeling the house I grew up in struck me as an interesting challenge. I was excited to kinda re-visit the house since I have not been living there for a while now (and I think this posted an initial challenge… Continue Reading
The process of creating this wasn’t too difficult, but it also wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. The interface of Sketchup is very powerful and intuitive, but I found that I just didn’t know how to properly… Continue Reading
