7 x 9 1/2 black and white photograph of:
Yellow Heart
Designed in 1968 by Haus - Rucker - Co.
7 x 9 1/2 inch black and white photograph of:
Balloon For Two
Designed in 1967 by the Haus - Rucker - Co.
The back reads: Balloon For Two Haus Rucker Co. 1967. Copyright By Scherry .
7 x 9 1/2 inch black and white photograph of
The Mind Expander Chair
Designed in 1967 by the Haus - Rucker - Co.
The back reads: Mind Expander Chair 1 Haus Rucker Co. 1967. Copyright Michael Pilz.
off topic - are you familiar with Archinect?
archnewsnow.com
I could save myself and the readers (both of you) a lot of time by just making a link to arch news now. I recieve their almost daily e.news letter which I scan for cherrypickable news links on new architectural trends and items on modular and shipping container housing which I link to directly. busted
.
What did you think about the 10 rejected WTC memorial submissions featured on February 1 in the NYTs? I was wondering if you would link to it but your decision not to makes me ponder your thoughts..
oh, and don't worry you can be candid, I am not "invested" in any way. And archnewsnow is a great resource.
...hmm, thread is fraying, but...
The NY Post had this weird story about Maya Lin influencing the selection process. Not sure that she’s an “architect” per se, but her Vietnam memorial is one of very few successful public works using the vocabulary of contemporary art (contemporary as of the 70s, anyway.) Her only mistake was not putting a commercial/residential tower on top of the wall. The irony of her success is the devaluation of her grammar for the next generation, leading to the stale, “friendly minimalism” of so many of these designs.
“friendly minimalism” is that like “architectural humanism?”
I was struck by the fact that so many of the WTC memorial proposals, shortlisted or not, read as temporary installations. Aren't memorials supposed to last forever, or well, longer than even a building’s lifetime?
your right memorials should out live their surrounding buildings. unless the memorial is the building. "remember the alamo."
I like the idea that even buildings have a lifetime.
All 5,201 submissions:
http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/submissions.html
thanks selma wtcsitememorial.org
does anyone else remember maya lin publicly proposing north and south tower footprint shaped reflecting pools of her own ?
"Mr. Eisenman was becoming preoccupied with his standing in architectural history. What imprint would he leave on the culture when he was gone? He came to the conclusion that mere architecture was not enough. "You know, our Arizona stadium will be torn down in 30 years because it will be useless," he said. "All the great stadiums get torn down." Books, he decided, could deliver a more powerful and lasting impact. Even if their print run is tiny, even if their terminology is comprehensible only to a rarefied minority, they communicate ideas more clearly and widely than any single building can."
Can we call him THE "armchair architect?"
I understand his building in Ohio, the Wexner Center, is falling apart, literally. And that his DAAP building at University of Cincinnati is not holding up so well either. Maybe he should be worried about his "imprint." Of course, one can always blame the contractor...
http://www.wexarts.org/ex/
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0701/ob/ob09.html
what do you call a "paper architect" in a cad world. thanks for the links
LOL
"Perhaps the most far-reaching implications for the profession, however, lie in formalism’s emphasis on the making of often compelling architectural images. Imitating conceptual art’s attempts to negate the material aspects of the artwork, architecture has premiated its schematic diagram and photogenic appearance, suppressing the material particulars of its construction. The invocation of conceptual architecture seemed to be accompanied by, or interpreted as, a marked lack of care given to the fabrication of the architectural object, the exigencies of the construction process, its material components, their methods of assembly, climate, weathering, and so on. Buildings constructed from these drawings often yielded a host of problems (like peeling paint, cracked tiles, water damage, and sloppy construction)."(8)
8. D.K. Dietsch here discusses the deteriorating condition of Michael Graves’s Portland Civic Building in “Postmodern Ruins,” Architecture, July 1997, 13, while Suzanne Frank recalls the various weather and construction related issues of Eisenman’s House VI in “The Client’s Response” in Peter Eisenman’s House VI: A Client’s Response (New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1994), 49–72. To be sure, many of these problems were a direct result of budgetary limitations and contractors unaccustomed to unconventional designs, but aren’t these factors also part of the architect’s professional responsibilities?
Architectural students seem to be learning only on the computer and do not seem to know how to imaginarily walk through a space 3-dimensionally. I met a graduate student from Columbia the other day who had not built a model since high school. There is also the problem of contractors – although I have the suspicion that this cause is overrated and provides architects too much of the high design excuse - and unions. While an architect might take off the blinders of “building,” a contractor can sometimes not imagine the materials needed to facilitate the architectural vision. But all in all, I think they get a hard time (and ultimately, most importantly, as you point out, it should be the responsibility of the architect).
Do you know the story of the “wobbly bridge” in London? Maybe it is a bad example though, because it is the case of the engineer getting blamed, not the contractors…
Sorry, another link (without the link):
http://www.structurae.de/en/structures/data/str00603.php
as they came down the pike nothing really registered as outstanding. so no post. the committee process is pretty hard to relate to from the outside.
im not a big lotec fan. (but thanks.) they and alot of the rest of the container-architects are well represented with good links on fabprefab. thats a website branch of dwell magazine. the problem with architects getting involved and staying involved with the housing product is that it really runs the price up needlessly. What I was hoping to see develop are designs for ultra cheep disaster relief housing (housing shortage is a type of disaster) that would last and still be world class design. lotec builds pavillions for trade shows that for me just dont look splendid or convey comfort. one of the posters on the fabprefab message board constantly waxes on the beauty of 8' by 40' of brown rust. Im down with that.
do you suppose the canon of Functionalism is on the rebound?
its the econemy...
oops I meant canon of Functionalism
i usually write off post-functionalist movements as fashion jaunts. a notion appealing to both the short attention span of consumers (apathy?) and livleyhood of developers (greed).
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7 x 9 1/2 black and white photograph of:
Yellow Heart
Designed in 1968 by Haus - Rucker - Co.
- bill 2-08-2004 5:19 am
7 x 9 1/2 inch black and white photograph of:
Balloon For Two
Designed in 1967 by the Haus - Rucker - Co.
The back reads: Balloon For Two Haus Rucker Co. 1967. Copyright By Scherry .
- bill 2-08-2004 5:21 am [add a comment]
7 x 9 1/2 inch black and white photograph of
The Mind Expander Chair
Designed in 1967 by the Haus - Rucker - Co.
The back reads: Mind Expander Chair 1 Haus Rucker Co. 1967. Copyright Michael Pilz.
- bill 2-08-2004 5:26 am [add a comment]
off topic - are you familiar with Archinect?
- dave 2-09-2004 5:30 pm [add a comment]
"pimpin' architecture since '97" thanks
- bill 2-09-2004 6:33 pm [add a comment]
archnewsnow.com
- anonymous (guest) 2-10-2004 7:52 pm [add a comment]
architecture week is another good resource
- bill 2-12-2004 7:30 pm [add a comment]
I have also seen a new "tabloid" called The Architect's Newspaper. I appreciate what they are attempting – covering more "timely issues" than the other architectural magazines that only appear monthly. I think it is modeled on the Building Design newspaper in London:
http://www.archpaper.com/index.html
- anonymous (guest) 2-12-2004 8:46 pm [add a comment] [edit]
archpaper
thanks...
- bill 2-12-2004 8:59 pm [add a comment]
I could save myself and the readers (both of you) a lot of time by just making a link to arch news now. I recieve their almost daily e.news letter which I scan for cherrypickable news links on new architectural trends and items on modular and shipping container housing which I link to directly. busted
.
- bill 2-10-2004 8:45 pm [add a comment]
I am sure you know of them if you are a fan of shipping containers, but just incase:
http://www.lot-ek.com/main.htm
- anonymous (guest) 2-10-2004 9:31 pm [add a comment] [edit]
What did you think about the 10 rejected WTC memorial submissions featured on February 1 in the NYTs? I was wondering if you would link to it but your decision not to makes me ponder your thoughts..
- anonymous (guest) 2-10-2004 9:19 pm [add a comment]
oh, and don't worry you can be candid, I am not "invested" in any way. And archnewsnow is a great resource.
- anonymous (guest) 2-10-2004 9:22 pm [add a comment] [edit]
...hmm, thread is fraying, but...
The NY Post had this weird story about Maya Lin influencing the selection process. Not sure that she’s an “architect” per se, but her Vietnam memorial is one of very few successful public works using the vocabulary of contemporary art (contemporary as of the 70s, anyway.) Her only mistake was not putting a commercial/residential tower on top of the wall. The irony of her success is the devaluation of her grammar for the next generation, leading to the stale, “friendly minimalism” of so many of these designs.
- alex 2-10-2004 9:50 pm [add a comment]
“friendly minimalism” is that like “architectural humanism?”
I was struck by the fact that so many of the WTC memorial proposals, shortlisted or not, read as temporary installations. Aren't memorials supposed to last forever, or well, longer than even a building’s lifetime?
- anonymous (guest) 2-10-2004 11:17 pm [add a comment] [edit]
your right memorials should out live their surrounding buildings. unless the memorial is the building. "remember the alamo."
- bill 2-11-2004 6:04 pm [add a comment]
I like the idea that even buildings have a lifetime.
- anonymous (guest) 2-11-2004 6:14 pm [add a comment] [edit]
All 5,201 submissions:
http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/submissions.html
- selma 2-23-2004 7:18 pm [add a comment]
thanks selma wtcsitememorial.org
does anyone else remember maya lin publicly proposing north and south tower footprint shaped reflecting pools of her own ?
- bill 2-23-2004 7:40 pm [add a comment]
"Mr. Eisenman was becoming preoccupied with his standing in architectural history. What imprint would he leave on the culture when he was gone? He came to the conclusion that mere architecture was not enough. "You know, our Arizona stadium will be torn down in 30 years because it will be useless," he said. "All the great stadiums get torn down." Books, he decided, could deliver a more powerful and lasting impact. Even if their print run is tiny, even if their terminology is comprehensible only to a rarefied minority, they communicate ideas more clearly and widely than any single building can."
- bill 2-14-2004 9:56 pm [add a comment]
Can we call him THE "armchair architect?"
I understand his building in Ohio, the Wexner Center, is falling apart, literally. And that his DAAP building at University of Cincinnati is not holding up so well either. Maybe he should be worried about his "imprint." Of course, one can always blame the contractor...
http://www.wexarts.org/ex/
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0701/ob/ob09.html
- anonymous (guest) 2-17-2004 9:09 pm [add a comment] [edit]
what do you call a "paper architect" in a cad world. thanks for the links
- bill 2-17-2004 11:05 pm [add a comment]
LOL
- anonymous (guest) 2-17-2004 11:11 pm [add a comment] [edit]
"Perhaps the most far-reaching implications for the profession, however, lie in formalism’s emphasis on the making of often compelling architectural images. Imitating conceptual art’s attempts to negate the material aspects of the artwork, architecture has premiated its schematic diagram and photogenic appearance, suppressing the material particulars of its construction. The invocation of conceptual architecture seemed to be accompanied by, or interpreted as, a marked lack of care given to the fabrication of the architectural object, the exigencies of the construction process, its material components, their methods of assembly, climate, weathering, and so on. Buildings constructed from these drawings often yielded a host of problems (like peeling paint, cracked tiles, water damage, and sloppy construction)."(8)
8. D.K. Dietsch here discusses the deteriorating condition of Michael Graves’s Portland Civic Building in “Postmodern Ruins,” Architecture, July 1997, 13, while Suzanne Frank recalls the various weather and construction related issues of Eisenman’s House VI in “The Client’s Response” in Peter Eisenman’s House VI: A Client’s Response (New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1994), 49–72. To be sure, many of these problems were a direct result of budgetary limitations and contractors unaccustomed to unconventional designs, but aren’t these factors also part of the architect’s professional responsibilities?
- bill 2-18-2004 9:11 pm [add a comment]
Architectural students seem to be learning only on the computer and do not seem to know how to imaginarily walk through a space 3-dimensionally. I met a graduate student from Columbia the other day who had not built a model since high school. There is also the problem of contractors – although I have the suspicion that this cause is overrated and provides architects too much of the high design excuse - and unions. While an architect might take off the blinders of “building,” a contractor can sometimes not imagine the materials needed to facilitate the architectural vision. But all in all, I think they get a hard time (and ultimately, most importantly, as you point out, it should be the responsibility of the architect).
Do you know the story of the “wobbly bridge” in London? Maybe it is a bad example though, because it is the case of the engineer getting blamed, not the contractors…
Sorry, another link (without the link):
http://www.structurae.de/en/structures/data/str00603.php
- anonymous (guest) 2-19-2004 12:25 am [add a comment] [edit]
as they came down the pike nothing really registered as outstanding. so no post. the committee process is pretty hard to relate to from the outside.
im not a big lotec fan. (but thanks.) they and alot of the rest of the container-architects are well represented with good links on fabprefab. thats a website branch of dwell magazine. the problem with architects getting involved and staying involved with the housing product is that it really runs the price up needlessly. What I was hoping to see develop are designs for ultra cheep disaster relief housing (housing shortage is a type of disaster) that would last and still be world class design. lotec builds pavillions for trade shows that for me just dont look splendid or convey comfort. one of the posters on the fabprefab message board constantly waxes on the beauty of 8' by 40' of brown rust. Im down with that.
- bill 2-11-2004 1:55 am [add a comment]
Perfect. Yes. I love the drive back to Manahattan from Newark for that very rust container view. And thanks for the Dwell link.
- anonymous (guest) 2-11-2004 2:17 am [add a comment] [edit]
do you suppose the canon of Functionalism is on the rebound?
- sally mckay 2-11-2004 2:36 am [add a comment]
its the econemy...
- bill 2-11-2004 4:27 am [add a comment]
Or "high design" overdose (read: apathy)?
- anonymous (guest) 2-11-2004 6:13 pm [add a comment] [edit]
oops I meant canon of Functionalism
- sally mckay 2-11-2004 6:55 am [add a comment]
i usually write off post-functionalist movements as fashion jaunts. a notion appealing to both the short attention span of consumers (apathy?) and livleyhood of developers (greed).
- bill 2-11-2004 7:43 pm [add a comment]