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

Arial vs Helvetica

Here’s a graphic showing the difference between Arial and Helvetica. Learn more here

Photoshop for Architecture Students

Click here to watch the video tutorials.

The Basics of Quark & InDesign

Click here to learn a a few basics about Quark & InDesign.

2D Cut-out People, Trees and Textures

Click here to find free 2D cut-out people (female, male or groups), trees and textures.

From 2D to 3D using Photoshop & After Effects

Using the Vanishing Point Exchange with Adobe Photoshop you can create very believable 3D movements from quite simple 2D digital photographs like this. It’s a pretty easy process. To watch a video tutorial click here.

How to Make a Basic SlideShow in Flash

In this video tutorial you will learn How to Create a Simple Slideshow in Flash. 

Here you can learn How to Import a Video into Flash.

Rendering with Sketchup & Photoshop

Tutorials to create a Daytime and Night rendering by exporting images from Sketchup to Photoshop.

What's BIM Technology?

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is not a software but an information based system that improves how project get designed.

When carrying out architectural designs through BIM, you create a 3D model introducing architectural items such walls, columns, beams, windows, doors or stairways instead of lines. Each of the items is saved in a different layer, allowing you to export structural elements or other facilities (plumbing, electricity or wastewater systems) to make easy the work of other professionals or  the use of peripheral software which support BIM applications.

There are currently many commercial applications using BIM Technology such as Autodesk Revit Architecture, Graphisoft Archicad, Nemetschek AllPlan, Gehry Digital Project, Nemetschek Vectorworks, Autodesk Revit Structure or CypeCAD.

List of BIM Software and Providers

How to Build a 3D Printer

To watch the video, click here

EPS Workshop: How to Build a 3D Printer

This automatic 3D printer makes plastic objects based on tridimensional designs. MakerBot hosts an online international community called Thingiverse, a collaborative repository of designs for 3D printing and other DIY processes where users can post files, document their designs, and collaborate on open source hardware. The site is a collaborative repository for design files used in 3D printing, laser cutting services, and other DIY manufacturing processes.