10(+) architects I have been thinking about

Neutelings Riedijk, Institute for Sound & Vision, Hilversum, 1999-2006

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2957562090_a7f5a3c1b1.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2956735219_f859514183.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3065/2956745537_727887fd44.jpg

good old hilversum

Has anyone seen Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman yet?

Trailer here: http://aff.bside.com/2008/films/visualacousticsthemodernismofjuliusshulman_aff2008

― caek, Saturday, October 4, 2008 8:53 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

... won best documentary feature at Austin

Ahh, what the hell, finish off the vacation:

Hans Hollein, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, 1983-1991

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/3011265619_7c642395dd.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/3012110746_702e891be7.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3012113596_f89b40bd01.jpg

1. Abalos and Herreros

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2363353389_c0616179ea.jpg?v=0

Public Library, Usera, 2003

2. Toyo Ito

http://architourist.pbwiki.com/f/tower-winds1.jpg

Tower of the Winds, Yokohama, 1986

During the day opaque, at night interior lights respond to wind and noise.

3. Philip Johnson

http://www.freewebs.com/charlotklinkhamer/philip_johnson_glass_house_new_canaan_connecticut.jpg

Glass House, New Canaan, 1949

4. Moshe Safdie

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/34/117234-004-8AEFACC5.jpg

Habitat, Montreal, 1967

5. Sauerbruch/Hutton

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/19066211_3d47b57a79.jpg?v=1159131889

GSW Building, Berlin, 2001

6. Ushida/Findlay

http://www.manggha.krakow.pl/architecture/Images/kf_02.jpg

Soft and Hairy House, Tsukuba, 1994

7. Williams/Tsien

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1007/1235914482_7158ad5335.jpg

Museum of American Folk Art, NYC, 2002

8. Maya Lin

http://www.obstanovka.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/langston_hughes_library.jpg

Langston Hughes Library, Clinton, TN, 1999

9. Atelier Hapsitus

http://ideiaforte.com.br/blog/media/1/20070623-the_cloud_4.jpg

The Cloud, Dubai, proposed

10. Diller/Scofidio

http://blog.miragestudio7.com/wp-content/uploads2/2008/01/swiss_expo_2002_-diller_scofidio_architecture3.jpg

Blur Building, Swiss Expo, 2002

The Langston Hughes Library is very nice.

I would like to sit here:

http://adaptivereuse.net/wp-content/uploads/images/langston-hughes-library-haley-fam.jpg

Did everyone hear what happened to Farnsworth House : (

http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/news/

http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/news/wp-content/themes/defusion/img/fh_header.gif

This is not the first time...from the perspective of functionality and longevity it's a badly-sited building, smack in the middle of a flood plain. The current ownership seems very committed to protecting the building in the long term, so cross fingers...

Some stunners in there though:

We have, over the course of our five years managing this property, continually investigated solutions to the threat posed by the river. To that end, we begin this discussion with a list of previously proposed ideas:

1. Placement of a pontoons under the building
2. Longer column extensions that slide out of their footings
3. Szikorsky Helicopter to lift the 300 ton house
4. Hydraulic jacks to raise it in place
5. Building up the site flood plain by 12 ft.
6. Move the house to high ground
7. Retractable flood walls surrounding the house.
8. Waterproofing everything inside the house (vinyl upholstery, plastic laminate wood?)
9. Inflatable raft under the house
10. Internal sandbags around furniture and core
11. Dikes and dams
12. Moats
13. Fixed Moment Frame below the soil
14. Sandbags
15. Temporary flood walls
16. Reverse aquarium designed to rise out of the ground
17. Giant Zip lock bag
18. Steel waterproof shutters

Great selections from Roxy. The Safdie is a perennial delight - would really like to visit that sometime. Wish I could have seen ("seen") the Blur Building. According to one of my professors, the festival actually issued a commemorative chocolate bar of the building, which ordinarily would be fine, but it turns out rendering a foggy blur in chocolate produces something "that just looked like a big turd."

i saw a Julius Shulman photo exhibit a few years back that was very nice

what is the house you can barely believe is real, Doctor?

The "Dupli-casa" posted by Jed a bit upthread from there.

8. Waterproofing everything inside the house (vinyl upholstery, plastic laminate wood?)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

I still haven't sen the Shulman doc, which is bumming me out. Working on acquiring a screener.

A giant ziploc for Farnsworth could be fun.

can not decide if the cloud would look like one of those mall fountains that looks as if it's showering individual streams of rain down from a height, but you approach to be disappointed by the plastic tubing. most exciting bit is surely the futurama-esque tube system to get up there.

"but you approach to be disappointed by the plastic tubing."

a look for photos through google and flickr suggests that this was exactly the case. and not just close up.

but at least it's not "The Cloud, Dubai".

The Langston Hughes house is no more, caek. It's a shame about the Farnsworth House; some good (and awesomely lol and wtf) ideas in that solutions list though. Someone explain "reverse aquarium" plz.

Shulman doc?

http://deconarch.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/visual-acoustics-the-modernism-of-julius-shulman-a-documentary-film/

Won the audience award at Austin last month.

I kinda like "The Cloud, Dubai."

I have been enjoying you delicious links recently, roxy!

Oh thanks, I don't even know what's on there. Haw.

I kinda started an architecture blog, so most of it is stuff I plan to blog about, I guess.

http://theskyscraperblog.blogspot.com/

you really like architecture

a reverse aquarium presumably has water not on the inside but on the outside

thanks, i really do like it, but i don't know much about it/have never formally studied it, is i think my approach is pretty "natural" (i.e. uninformed)

and yes i realize that, but i mean, "to rise out of the ground"?! this will be very tough

is so

Roxy, will throw your blog in my bookmarks. I am now over two years into a grad degree in arch. and I am still a layperson in so many ways - doesn't stop me from all my Flickr ramblings...so I say go for it and just keep soaking up information on stuff that interests you.

thx, casino!

if you don't mind me asking, is your job arch.-related? if so, what is it?

I pay the bills as a teaching assistant here in the archiprogram, so yeah. Over the summer I was interning at a local firm - that's pretty much the extent of my experience in the field. (My undergrad was in women's studies and polisci.)

you are the awesomest!

Hahha, thanks, if only my studio professors thought so!

(This quarter is with WORKac, who among other things did this summer's playful and charming garden at PSOne. They are smart but it is hard, as always.)

So I guess they are architects I am thinking about...I was going to hold off linking them till I finished scanning my photos...oops.

gosh, there's so much ON that website

love the main pic

wait wait wait.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3012113596_f89b40bd01.jpg
this makes no sense

Love that Abalos and Herreros upthread. I think this...
http://www.herrerosarquitectos.com/HA_P3_IMs/10_07_CasaDeCampo/orden/CdC_001.jpg
...is nice, Herreros solo I think.

this makes no sense

― rent, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:28 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Doc C, that shot is a very good attempt at showing Hollein's work, which always looks pretty dull in photos but, at its best, is a unique spatial delight!

This quarter is with WORKac, who among other things did this summer's playful and charming garden at PSOne.

loved this.

re: P.F.1 - Yeah, it was great - particularly in light of the kind of stuff that typically wins. They seem to feel that the committee or jury or whoever realized they were getting really tired of atmospheric projects. "We could have won last year, but not ten years ago." It was refreshing to me as a living example of Dutch-ness here on our shores (they both worked at OMA) by architects young enough that you could imagine "hey, that could be me!" So that's always going to be encouraging. But I also loved how much it was filled in with fun little gimmicks and gizmos - the periscope, the audio and video of working farms, the chicken coop...it was cool.

re: Hollein - thanks Jed! It's tough to get it in photos b/c the material palette seems so generically "70s museum"-y, but he makes a lot of spatial complexity out of seemingly simple moves.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/12/arts/26111909.JPG

I. M. Pei in the New York Times. Slideshow.

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/IeohMingPei3.jpg

“Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something,” he said in an interview. “There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.”

still <3 pei

Gawd almighty I love this thread as it loads!

The best picture of this little house by Terunobu Fujimori is in the new Taschen book so you'll have to make do with a pic from the website as I can't find it online.
http://www.taschen.com/media/images/480/page_mi_architecture_now_6_04_0807211121_id_161946.jpg
A book full of good things.

Another one by Fujimori...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/238/521614297_9882c1bfcd.jpg?v=0

To give the photographer their due ('cos it's a nice shot) here's a link to the orignal photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76991993@N00/521614297/

Herzog & de Meuron strike again - I don't think we've covered 40 Bond Street on here.... Thread is enormous so I am scared to load it and check.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3158434490_21b50a3220.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/3158448332_70e9f7c999.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/3157660519_c38b46811b.jpg

update your bookmarks, if you do that sort of thing:

10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about
10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about

Anarchitect have launched the (so far) fantastic image feed SpaceInvading.

One for Proposed buildings thread here:

http://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/resized/3112081230770282061108_162012.jpg

SpaceInvading is a great link - thanks hyggeligt!