10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about

lenny kravitz

SANAA wins Pritkzer. Given Pritzker discussion upthread I figured I'd put it here rather than Let's talk Architecture . What do we think?

I'm pretty surprised that SANAA got it - usually firms are much more established/have a much larger body of work before they get a Pritzker. It's nice to see a firm getting the award while they're on the upswing. Also it's the second time the prize has gone to more than an invidual/individually headed firm (Herzon & de Meuron were the other), and I think it's healthy to steer the public away from the notion that great architecture is the product of a single mind.

I wasn't sure from the renderings, but from the way it's turning out Heatherwick's British Pavillion at Expo 2010 is about to make him the next starchitect:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2706/4453490777_6e731d2964.jpg

^ the photo makes it look small, but it's about 20m tall

Yeah, is there a website anywhere with complete Shanghai pavilion coverage/photos/data? I've found a few blog posts that show a few of them haphazardly but I'd really like some kind of overall who-did-what sheet. Some of them look amazing.

I haven't seen anything like that, just random stuff popping up on Flickr and elsewhere. I'm sure a lot of the magazines will do full rundowns w/ the opening of the Expo.

there are some amazing british pavilion photos at http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/shanghai_prepares_for_expo_201.html

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/expo_03_15/e02_22287287.jpg

Decent collection of Expo shots here - nothing near comprehensive, but the most I've seen in one place

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/28/shanghai-expo-2010-pavilions/

Some pretty cool things in there, I kinda wish North American would get the Expo bug again, I think it would be really cool to see what would come out of one.

Thanks, I DIED. Serbian Pavilion ftw!

http://en.expo2010.cn/participation/pop/moren.htm comprehensive. Check out the spectacularly bad SketchUp renderings of the Nepal Pavilion! There's hope for the rest of us.

I am thinking about Richard Meier because his first house in the UK (for one Rowan Atkinson) has passed the planning stage.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/16/article-1295246-0A73EE14000005DC-986_634x286.jpg

It's not a dramatic departure or anything but it's good that it's finally got permission. It was quite a battle.

richard meier and rowan atkison can fuck off both

guys, teach me about Lebbeus Woods and where to start with his work

― mh, Monday, February 9, 2009 8:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^fuckin huge stan of this guy

― lol (roxymuzak), Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:58 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

Anyone? I've been curious for ages but a lot of the important work seems to be out of print or otherwise unavailable...

speaking of meier, there's a pretty rad series about various star architect projects once they've vacated and left it to the tenants; i think it's touring at the moment: http://www.living-architectures.com/html/filmseries.html
meier's church & neighborhood in rome figures

the guggenheim film has this great strand with the windowcleaners.

Quit my job. Starting my own firm. Full time bar/club/restaurant/retail design. It's about to get stressy!

― It's set in "Kazakhstan" not Kazakhstan. (I DIED), Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:33 PM (1 year ago)

This is going pretty well! Opened 4 places, got another 4 under construction and 5 in design. Working with a James Beard award-winning chef on one and taking a bar and restaurant research trip to Tokyo for another. Keeping me and a good friend employed full time. Gotta get a photoshoot done soon. Interesting thing is that the keystone project that I quit my old job to work on went to shit but everything else had been filling in nicely, knock on FSC-certified wood.

It's incredibly stressful and there's a lot of work I really don't like doing (billing, permitting, wringing money out of clients, etc.), but I can't imagine going back to a day job at this point.

Based on what I see on design blogs, I'm expecting Tokyo to have a minimalist but playful white plaster single family home on a small, oddly shaped lot on every block.

Congrats on all that work. What are chefs like to work for I wonder? (I want a really really big work station and fuck the rest!)

Take lots of pics in Tokyo!

I DIED, congrats. That's wonderful news. Can you direct us to any of your work?

That is truly awesome!

That's awesome news- seconding the request for pictures (of Tokyo and of your work).

...and throwing another name out there- does anyone know a good resource on Shin Takamatsu? Read about him in a book on architecture and film ages ago (he was cited as an influence on Anton Furst's designs for the first Tim Burton Batman movie), had it itching at the back of my brain for years, finally remembered his name about a week ago...

High fives to I DIED!

great to hear that, ID. I would love to see some work too.

We all have to face him down eventually: the last couple days I have been thinking about Louis KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5429628367_847ba05e39_z.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5134/5429604381_f395555325_z.jpg

Rushed, already-somewhat-regretted thoughts on Flickr.

Great essay. I've never spent a whole lot of time with Kahn, beyond a cursory study of the Salk Institute and the First Unitarian Church. The majority of my other knowledge of his work came from a screening of My Architect where his son spoke. I think now is a good time to dive into the IIM project a little more.

He's an interesting guy, more than I've given him credit for. I've also basically never looked at him, which seems like an enormous blind spot. My Architect drove me up a wall though...

Yeah, I don't think I would have made it through it if it weren't for the promise of a Q&A at the end.

yeah i thought it was really horrible. the son was a dick.

Too, too many awkward scenes that seemed staged not because he was on a quest to find his father, but because he knew he was making a movie about a guy on a quest to find his father. Ill-conceived, and disappointingly shot if you really were hoping to see these buildings done justice.

That's true and, looking back, I think that may have been a bit part of why I've sort of ignored Kahn over the past few years. Remedying that this week though.

Doctor Casino - are there any decent, regularly updated architecture blogs you might recommend?

i'd recommend archdaily as well as designboom & dezeen which both have mixed design content.

http://www.archdaily.com/
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/index.php
http://www.dezeen.com/

I've been really O_o lately at some of the shitty projects/competition entries that have gotten published on seemingly every big daily design blog. I guess when there's pressure to put up half a dozen posts a day it can't all be great but sometimes it'll just be some uninteresting student pipe dream and it's just baffling.

oh and I FINALLY got some of my projects photographed - there's a lot of processing to do on them but I'll post the ones I have up here

i totally agree with that, I D.

this is the one that photographed best (due to mostly indirect lighting) and probably the most "architectural" in sensibility

http://i56.tinypic.com/fogeth.jpg
http://i56.tinypic.com/2824936.jpg
http://i56.tinypic.com/v3zki1.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/1z2lx51.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/5ceicg.jpg

That looks gorgeous! Would love to be working on that kind of project.

"Gorgeous" was the word I was going to use! Nice stuff, and great use of lighting as well.

I actually don't read any archi-blogs at all except the Flickr of seier_seier_seier and a few others in the commenting circle around his. I just can't keep up with stuff!

I have a boatload of arch bookmarks on my laptop, but half of them are constantly updated with pointless stuff and the rest have been dormant for long periods of time.

I enjoy reading Iqbal Aalam.
http://iqbalaalam.wordpress.com/
Don't let the excess of stuff about Milton Keynes put you off, it's interesting stuff.

i keep an eye on owen hatherly since i read this great post http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/2010/08/steel-yourself.html

Iqbal is great for sure.

I think I bookmarked Hatherly a long time ago but have never actually sat down to read much of him! Nice reminder to finally take a stab at it.

Thanks guys!

ID, that is absolutely terrific, the lighting is amazing. you should be proud.

Thanks for the kind words, y'all.

In terms of project-based architecture blogs, I really pine for the all too brief glory days of Space Invading.

ha - was just about to recommend space invading, but with the proviso that it is kinda absurd rendering/neat pamphlet-heavy these days

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4776588551_6c170cb055_b.jpg

Ajami ibn Abubakr Nakhchivani (Azerbaijani: Əcəmi Naxçıvani, Persian: عجمی ابن ابوبکر نخجوانی) - (life: 12th-13th centuries) is a Muslim architect. He is also the founder of the Nakhchivan school of architecture. The influence, which he has rendered on his contemporaries and followers, is reflected in monuments of Nakhchivan architecture.