Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
Monday, March 29th, 2010
For reasons I'm not going to get into here I've been thinking about "sustainability" in architecture - and though the word has become something of a marketing catchphrase, if given a bit of thought it is not as superficial and cynical as it might sound. It doesn't all end with ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Ron Witte's guest studio ended yesterday - considering my graphics, it's no surprise that Bob Somol led off his comments with Sarah Palin, with Italian restaurants as a back-up. Anyway, here's the goods, as they say - the idea was to use form and graphics to create spaces that connected ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Having a four-day guest studio exercise with Ron Witte (http://wwarchitecture.com). We're talking about intersecting spaces that allow you to be in two rooms at the same time. In the exercise, we're manipulating form and graphics to do just that - here's my second attempt:
That's it for now. Thank you for ...
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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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