10(+) architects I have been thinking about

Keep it all here for maximum building pr0n effect!

I love those TZUM-THORRRRRs. What is it about the Swiss and light?

Has anyone been reading about that Star structure? A bit silly* I think.

I also do not like that skyscraper, I am worried that bits will fall off or it will fall over. I am also a bit underwhelmed by Kapoor in general. I say this because I am bitter that I didn't get to see him in the Turbine Hall.

*Prob not an adult word :p

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

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

i can barely believe this is real

http://yatzer.com/assets/Image/10.october08/duplicasa_by_J_MAYER_H_Architects_photos_by_david_franck/14.jpg
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Auguste Perret, Notre Dame du Raincy (1921-1922):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2782273411_5485323502.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/2783133580_0e8006c144.jpg

Mecanoo, St. Mary of the Angels Chapel, 1998-2001

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/2885980223_d72155b9fd.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2885990597_d8f10458bd.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2886829050_378b33c18b.jpg

And - for the truly hardcore - Herman Hertzberger, Delft Montessori School, 1960-1970

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/2888261680_f1dfdd6d3c.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2888273452_73d2d6e21f.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2887458241_f6109a9abc.jpg

Some more photos of the Dupli Casa posted by Jed upthread.
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/architecture/Dupli-Casa-Remembers-its-Past/

And floor plans here
http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=80137_0_23_0_C

Some people at archinect seem to doubt its existence!

I also doubt its existence! They are really beautiful images but none of them have a smoking "not a rendering" gun. There's a thumbnail I found on Google image search that seems to be the building under construction but it is teeeeeeeny. Perfectly willing to believe it's a work in progress though.

Tiny but convincing!

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Uz5X3enPZzCLHM:http://www.jmayerh.de/work/buildings/vmm/images/000.jpg

I thought the interior shots had to be real. Why go to the bother of having such realistic gardens in the background otherwise?

According to this it was completed last year.

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

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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.