10(+) architects I have been thinking about

"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!

oh yeah, incidentally - there's a new thread just above your last post.

10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about