3Dstudio + Processing + Digital Fabrication

Origami + Grasshopper + Rhinoceros + Arduino

New Grasshopper Release

It has been over half a year, but we finally have a new Grasshopper release. A lot has changed in 6 months and this release represents a significant step towards Grasshopper 1.0. 

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas.

Scan&Solve Free Student Edition

The student edition of Scan&Solve™ for Rhino is now available free of charge. The student edition incorporates the power and ease of use of Scan&Solve™ with limits on the complexity of problems that may be specified. Read more and download the student edition here. 

Processing, open source for animations

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab. The project is currently improved and maintained by a small team of volunteers.

Dropbox Anywhere

With apps available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry, plus a mobile website, Dropbox has you covered no matter where you are.

Visit Dropbox Anywhere to learn more.

The Power of Making

The Solar Sinter Project explores the potential of harnessing sunlight directly to produce objects. The machine is a low-tech, low energy version of a laser cutter. It uses pure sunlight, focused by a ball lens, to repeatedly cut programmed shapes in up to 0.4mm thick plywood as well as paper and card. To watch the video click here.

Rhino Grasshopper Visual Basic Workshop

Download info here

Visual Communication by Alex Lis

To learn more about Alexander Lis click here

AutoCad 2012 Video Tutorials

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BuzzData, a new data-sharing software

BuzzData from BuzzData on Vimeo.

Quadrigram, formulate and answer questions

Quadrigram provides tools to formulate and answer questions with a wide variety of datasets and visual means. 

Moleskine meets Lego, the video

For grown-up children who have never stopped flying. A new stop-motion video presents the series of LEGO^® hacked notebooks. 

Magic Plan: As Easy as Taking a Picture

MagicPlan measures the size of the room, draws the floor plan and creates a DXF file, PDF document, JPEG images and a web site with an interactive floor plan. Available on the app store here.

R you ready for Data Analysis?

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. See what graphics can you do with it and learn how to create them here.

Watch a Video Tutorial on How to Free Download R.

Turn Photos into 3D Models with 123D Catch

Turn ordinary photos into extraordinary 3D models with Autodesk® 123D™ Catch. Take photos of your favorite people, places and things and let the power of the cloud magically transform them into detailed 3D models. 123D Catch is free beta software. 

Photosynth, Interactive 3D Views

In simple terms, Photosynth allows you to take a bunch of photos of the same scene or object and automagically stitch them all together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience that you can share with anyone on the web. It is free! Download it here. 

Grasshopper Advanced

Grasshopper® is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring. To watch Grasshopper Advanced Tutorials click here.

SketchUp Tutorials for Architecture Students

Free SketchUp Tutorials for Architecture Students here. 

Google SketchUp Quick Reference Card

SketchUp is a 3D modeling program marketed by Google and designed for architectural, civil, and mechanical engineers as well as filmmakers and game developers. The program, which is designed for ease of use, allows placement of models within Google Earth. Free Download here. SketchUp Quick Reference Card here. 

Visualisation & Creative Maps

Open publication - Free publishing - More information

How to Create your Portfolio

To learn more about setting up a Portfolio using Photoshop and Illustrator click here.

Useful iPad apps for Architects II

Click to learn more about OrtoGraph, Moleskine, iHandy, iCTE, Architecture & YesIsMore.

Useful iPad apps for Architects I

Learn more here.

Rhinoceros Intermediate Tutorials

To watch the video tutorials click here.

Are you ready to share with Google Docs?

Google Docs is a suite of products that lets you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store your documents and your other files; all online, and all for free.

To learn how it works click on Demo Google Docs

This video tutorial will help you get more out of Google Docs.

Free Software for Data Visualization

Impure is a free visual programming language aimed to gather, process and visualize information. 
Click here to watch Impure Examples. Download Impure and watch a video tutorial (part one & part two)

Seven Quality Font Resources

This collection of websites offers a vast source of fonts and materials to make the design process spent more efficient.

Aerial Photography Tips & Tricks

Photograph by Klaus Leidorf.
Aerial Photography Tutorial here.

Audio-reaction touch application

Processing is an open source programming language and environment
for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions.

Importing Maya Objects into AfterEffects

This video tutorial (part one & part two) shows How to import 3D objects from Maya into AfterEffects. You will also need Photoshop to follow it correctly.

City Plans through Graphic Anagrams

Graphic Anagrams by Armelle Caron.

Digital Fabrication Workshop with Grasshopper

EPS students conceptualize and build an installation with the aid of parametric design tools. To learn more about it click here,

Discovering the Beauty of Typography

Writing Systems & Calligraphy part 1 includes Arabic and East-Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) and a few Indic scripts (Devanagari, Thai and Tibetan).

Writing Systems & Calligraphy part 2 covers Hebrew, Modern European scripts (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian), Mongolian, Inuktitut and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Adobe Illustrator for Architecture Students

To watch Illustrator CS5 Video Tutorials click here

Designing a Space with Body Movements

EPS students use sweepings bags to design a bubble which change its own shape according to the movement of the body, as part of the workshop muévete! To learn more about it click here

Design your Website with a Free Builder

To watch a Video Tutorial click here
To start right now click here

Edit DWGs free online. No software needed

AutoCAD WS is a web app which provides a simple way for you to edit and share AutoCAD drawings from anywhere using a web browser on a PC or Mac. Learn more here. Click here to sign-in to your account.

Free Moleskine App for IPhone & iPad

The official Moleskine® App for iPhone and iPad allows you to express your creativity through text, images and sketches. Pick a classic Moleskine notebook paper style, create a new thought and start to type or draw choosing amongst different colors and sizes. Free Download here.

Rhinoceros Basic Tutorials

Click here to watch Rhinoceros Basic Video Tutorials.

Free Photoshop Express Apps From Adobe

Photo by Kento Mizuno (shot with a Canon 7D, 70-200 mm lens).
The Photoshop Express Editor app is for retouching pictures. Features include  cropping and rotating, fixing red-eye and exposure, changing saturation and Touchup. Adjustments include white balance, sharpen and soft focus It is clean and easy to use if you’ve even basic experience with any type of graphics editor. Photoshop.com is free with 2GB of storage available to everyone.

American Book of Type Styles Free Online

American Type Foundry's 1912 Type Specimen book is a complete catalogue of printing machinery and printing supplies published in 1912 by American Type Founders Company. Now is available here.

David Hockney's iPad Art

In the winter of 2008, David Hockney bought an iPhone, and began to draw on it with his thumb, using an App called Brushes.
In early 2010, when the iPad was launched, he quickly moved up to this larger tablet computer, and the prolific production of digitally-aided drawings has continued till now.
To learn more about his last exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts click  here.  

David Hockney drawing on iPad here

Architectural Magazine Free Online

Click here to Free Download Architectural Drawings by Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Diebedo Francis Kere, Ábalos&Herreros, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Rem Koolhaas...

Smart Tourism for Smart Cities

Madrid & Barcelona Flickr Tourism Indicator is a new tool to measure the impact of tourism over cities. To learn more click here.

The indicator is an example of the use of Data Analysis in Architecture. Among various software tools used in data analysis you can find C, C++, Perl, Python, Unix shell, R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, Excel, databases, Hadoop etc.  Click here to find information about R free software, the most popular one. 

Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book

Click here to see the Official Adobe InDesign Book

Guggenheim Offers Free Books Online

The Guggenheim Museum has posted 65 art catalogues online for free reading, including works about Alexander Calder, Evard Munch, Vasily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Francis Picabia, Paul Klee, Francis Bacon and many others. 

You can download all them too in multiple formats including PDF, EPUB, Kindle and text iterations here.

Kit House Wins Talentos Design 2011

EPS Past Students Daniel Mayo and Álvaro Figueruelo wins Talentos Design 2011 Competition for their Kit House.
To watch the winner video click here or visit VivoArquitectura.

Kit House under construction here.

AutoCad 2012 Official Guide

Open publication - Free publishing - More autocad 2012

Getting Started with AutoCad 2012

Open publication - Free publishing - More arquitectura

Grasshopper Intermediate

To watch Grasshopper Intermediate Video Tutorials click here
To watch Grasshopper Basic Video Tutorials click here

Are you new to Mac?

This video tutorial will help you learn more about your Mac one step at a time. If you learn your Mac, you'll love it. Enjoy!

Daylight Long Exposure Photographs

Philip McKay is specialised in black and white fine art. Filters play a big part in his photography and for long exposures he uses the ndx400 filter and the ndx1000 filter with a exposure time of three minutes or more. Lee neutral density graduated soft filters are also used for shorter exposures. To see more photos click here.

Daytime Long Exposure Photograph Tutorial here 

Nigh-time Long Exposure Photograph Video Tutorial here

Revit Architecture Tutorial Videos

To watch the video tutorials click here

Revit Architecture and Revit Structure Free Download for EPS students here

Maya & Quick Time Movie in After Effects

This tutorial shows you how to create a simple render in Maya, and how to import the image sequence into After Effects to make a Quicktime movie.

Maya Free Download for EPS Students here