June 2010
1 post
how to create a beautiful non sequitur of...
April 2010
6 posts
In the medium of architecture, if you can't do it,...
And if you can’t write it, you are an architect ahead of your time
the density of ideas in the minimal of structure
dali is to art, what gaudi is to architecture and...
flavin and turrell is to art what mies and gropius is to architecture is what jil sander and helmet lang is to fashion
other examples..? please supply..
Connected: subways bring cities to life By Edwin Heathcote Published: April 6 2010 11:59 | Last updated: April 6 2010 11:59 A train station at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport, featuring architectural design by Norman Foster. The Beijing Subway is the oldest and busiest in mainland China, serving more than five million commuters daily, and current plans...
The Frontrunner: Steven Holl The Experimental Duo: Elizabeth Diller & Ricardo Scofidio The Sustainable Choice: Shigeru Ban The Crafty Duo: Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa The Odd Angle: Daniel Libeskind The Wildcard: Toyo Ito
As far as the yellow goes... many men have...
March 2010
19 posts
we have always been attracted y this ambivalence...
architecture has the ability, rivaling...
A constant focus on research characterises all of...
Maas's theory of "vertical suburbias" is perfectly...
designs grow seamlessly out of an existing space,...
Hyperreality
silentsun:
skandalon:
“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory -...
“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
– FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (via martyrcomplex) (via milktrees) (via youarebonbon) (via silentsun)
blogs are scrapbooks, the 'dear diaries' of the...
melbourne is an architectural mash up. like girl...
“It does not matter how slow you go so long as...
Plot— What is the purpose of the building? Character— Who populates the building? What are their expectations? What are their realities? Idea— What does the building suggest? Does it suggest grandeur? Does it suggest safety? Does it “emote?” Language— Does the programmatics of the building have a viable language? Can one navigate the building without maps or...
His requirements were few but refined: "Martinis,...
from the tip of this glass squeeze box to the...
- allegories of a hipster
raw, confusing, impersonal, uncomfortable,...
Well one thing is, I am not a control freak,' he...
the attraction of America is quickly getting less...
We need to find a new way of being serious
Still, even as they begin to make it in the world as a bona fide architectural firm it’s interesting to see a sort of mistrust of the architect label remain. In a brief chat at the end of the lecture she professes she stumbled upon architecture almost by accident. Elsewhere I’ve read she steadily avoided the field to spite her parents yet it seems to have nonetheless stealthily drawn her in which...
February 2010
16 posts
rigorously conceptual, uniquely beautiful, and...
kinaesthetic disorientation that makes apparent...
I'm not interested in composition. I want to find...
I think the interplay between the...
While You Were Sleeping: Caring for your Introvert →
An oldie, for fun, because whatever makes you laugh and go “Yes! Exactly! EXACTLY!” should appear on your blog, shouldn’t it.
Jonathan Rauch, the writer, got so many reactions to this 2003 essay that three years later, The Atlantic published a follow-up interview.
Both list what…
Rooms are frames of mind and apartment ads become...
slowly slowly we are giving up the fight...the...
This is the trap and fallacy of 'contextualism'...
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
– Victor Hugo (via ralleunam) (via silentsun)
Even after you’ve conceded that architecture, like the other arts, thrives on novelty, and after you’ve noticed that Dutch architects have developed sophisticated media skills that help spread their words and images, it is still undeniable that something real is going on in the Netherlands.
That something is a visible body of completed work by a group of like-minded by wide-ranging...
I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad...
The photographer is an armed version of the...
Simmel argued that not only does following what is...
January 2010
102 posts
(1) basic reflection of reality, (2) perversion of...
i am, therefore i am
i have, therefore i am
i think, therefore i am
i feel, therefore i am
i will, therefore i am
i analyze, therefore i am
i balance, therefore i am
i create, therefore i am
i perceive, therefore i am
i use, therefore i am
i know, therefore i am
i believe, therefore i am
One of the good few things about modern times: If...
Always always a process of becoming...
There I was yesterday, on my way to the office straight from the airport, driving by that same building, on a business trip, without the briefcase or the suit. Thinking, damn. I’m someone I once imagined I’d become.
Someone else
The sun through my window is jaundice yellow it burns and sweats like a fever. Heat presses close against skin, damp small of my back, the stealing hand of a lover or suffocation. Everything is too real.
something old...
(i hope you don’t mind..but this is so beautiful…!)
….tomorrow. not thinking about it. not really complaining either. not explaining anything, not even going to try. i’m just getting out, taking it in. nights are becoming eternal, the fall’s here. so i’m photographing it, snapshots left and right, that’s all I do. it’s an unending farewell. the...
"[C]ities have a psychogeographical relief, with...
"Architecture is the simplest means of...
Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord...