Archive for February, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Just got done with my midterm review - a lot of good feedback, but it looks like I'll have to start pretty much from scratch.
The project is live-work housing for artists. One thing I think I'll keep is the communal space on top:
I also kind of like the effect I ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I've been thinking what my long-term architectural project could be. I don't care much about form, except as the icing on the functional cake, so to speak. Then again bad icing can spoil a perfectly decent cake. Though I've often been accused of being a functionalist, that's not it either. ...
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Having ridiculed the literal treatment of D'Arcy Thompson's esoteric ideas about form on several occasions (not to mention attempts to apply them directly in architecture), I was somewhat dumbstruck when I saw this:
Our world may be a giant hologram - New Scientist
Now if that ain't the ultimate epigenetic plane story, ...
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Another star performance by Lebbeus Woods:
"Architecture has become more popular today than ever before. Its popularity does not come from the ways it improves the everyday lives of most people—as modernists like Gropius once hoped it would—but rather because of the ‘brand names’ now associated with its status as a ...
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