TGIW
SNF Cultural Center in Athens by Renzo Piano from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
park it
and what would you put in those parking spaces? Architects have sometimes given that some thought. Here are the thoughts from two of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. and Zaha.
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
Le Corbusier
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Zaha Hadid
Of course there is the Dymaxion Car by Bucky... what other crazy cars are out there?
Paved, but Still Alive
TGIF!
This is Y.our E.nvironment O.f the W.eek: Taking Parking Lots Seriously
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There are said to be at least 105 million and maybe as many as 2 billion parking spaces in the United States.
A third of them are in parking lots, those asphalt deserts that we claim to hate but that proliferate for our convenience. One study says we’ve built eight parking spots for every car in the country. Houston is said to have 30 of them per resident. In “Rethinking a Lot,” a new study of parking, due out in March, Eran Ben-Joseph, a professor of urban planning at M.I.T., points out that “in some U.S. cities, parking lots cover more than a third of the land area, becoming the single most salient landscape feature of our built environment.”
Absent hard numbers Mr. Ben-Joseph settles on a compromise of 500 million parking spaces in the country, occupying some 3,590 square miles, or an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If the correct number is 2 billion, we’re talking about four times that: Connecticut and Vermont.
Either way it’s a lot of pavement.
As the critic Lewis Mumford wrote half a century ago, “The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city.” Yet we continue to produce parking lots, in cities as well as in suburbs, in the same way we consume all those billions of plastic bottles of water and disposable diapers.
What to do? Check on the link to read the rest: Paved, but still Alive
A third of them are in parking lots, those asphalt deserts that we claim to hate but that proliferate for our convenience. One study says we’ve built eight parking spots for every car in the country. Houston is said to have 30 of them per resident. In “Rethinking a Lot,” a new study of parking, due out in March, Eran Ben-Joseph, a professor of urban planning at M.I.T., points out that “in some U.S. cities, parking lots cover more than a third of the land area, becoming the single most salient landscape feature of our built environment.”
Absent hard numbers Mr. Ben-Joseph settles on a compromise of 500 million parking spaces in the country, occupying some 3,590 square miles, or an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If the correct number is 2 billion, we’re talking about four times that: Connecticut and Vermont.
Either way it’s a lot of pavement.
As the critic Lewis Mumford wrote half a century ago, “The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city.” Yet we continue to produce parking lots, in cities as well as in suburbs, in the same way we consume all those billions of plastic bottles of water and disposable diapers.
What to do? Check on the link to read the rest: Paved, but still Alive
See slideshow here: Parking
Friday, January 6, 2012
Steilneset Memorial by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois
TGIF!
Today's YEOW will be covering the Steilneset Memorial by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois
Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century (photographs by Andrew Meredith).
The Steilneset Memorial in Vardø comprises two structures, one conceived entirely by Zumthor and a second housing an installation by the late Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010).
The first structure comprises a pine scaffolding framework, inside which is a suspended fabric cocoon containing a long oak-floored corridor.
Inside this corridor, light bulbs hang behind 91 windows to represent each of the men and women that were put to death during the witch trials.
A plaque accompanies each lamp to record the individual stories of every victim
The installation by Bourgeois, entitled The Damned, The Possessed and The Beloved, occupies the smoked-glass-clad second structure.
To see more, please visit this link below:
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/03/steilneset-memorial-by-peter-zumthor-and-louise-bourgeois/
Today's YEOW will be covering the Steilneset Memorial by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois
Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century (photographs by Andrew Meredith).
The Steilneset Memorial in Vardø comprises two structures, one conceived entirely by Zumthor and a second housing an installation by the late Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010).
The first structure comprises a pine scaffolding framework, inside which is a suspended fabric cocoon containing a long oak-floored corridor.
Inside this corridor, light bulbs hang behind 91 windows to represent each of the men and women that were put to death during the witch trials.
A plaque accompanies each lamp to record the individual stories of every victim
The installation by Bourgeois, entitled The Damned, The Possessed and The Beloved, occupies the smoked-glass-clad second structure.
To see more, please visit this link below:
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/03/steilneset-memorial-by-peter-zumthor-and-louise-bourgeois/
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Today we go to the WELL
Stepwells are wells or ponds in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps. Dated to 600 AD, stepwells are essentially inverted ziggurats excavated from the earth, producing an infrastructural monument to water collection.
here are some interesting ones:
Stepwells are wells or ponds in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps. Dated to 600 AD, stepwells are essentially inverted ziggurats excavated from the earth, producing an infrastructural monument to water collection.
here are some interesting ones:
here are some more stepwells
Thursday, December 22, 2011
DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE
Happy Holidays Folks
“Check it out!”
Michael Hadley has sent you a link to a blog: “Take a look at this!” Structural, and Mechanical Engineers put your thinking caps on for this Challenge!”
DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE
Today’s Environment of the Week will be Dynamic Architecture by David Fisher
Thank you Maricela Cordova for today’s YEOW suggestion!
[If anyone else has any YEOW’s they’d like to share, please feel free to let me know! Thx J]
Do Enjoy! Y.our E.nvironment O.f the W.eek
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Top 10 Things you’ll never hear an Architect say
Architects are cliché and are easily defined by stereotypes. Everyone knows it – even the client – so there is no sense in fighting it. See if you have ever said any of the following things:
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(By the way, if for some reason this post resonates with you, you might also enjoy ‘When you are an Architect…‘ that someone put together back in January)
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1) I’ll be home early tonight
2) I really should add some black clothing to my wardrobe, I wear too much color
3) Everything is going perfectly on your project
4) Your building is ahead of schedule and under budget
5) This will be my second vacation this year
6) You should listen to the contractor – he has fantastic design ideas
7) You have way too much money budgeted for this project
8 ) I learned everything I ever needed to know in college
9) I didn’t spend enough time in school
10) Designing that project was super easy, took almost no time at all
11) I can’t believe they pay me this much for so little work
12) I’m not much of a book reader
13) Just cut that tree down, there are plenty of trees all over this neighborhood
14) That’s okay, nobody will notice it besides me so you can leave it that way
15) I’ve never been wrong but you can just add a lamp later if you think it will be dark
16) I think I will get the eyeglasses with the silver frames, you’ll hardly notice them on my face
17) I am going to reduce my fees since this project is so straight forward
18) They are hiring me for my artistic abilities and don’t care how much it costs
19) At this rate, I’ll be able to retire by the time I’m 50 years old
20) I get to spend most of the fee actually designing the project
21) It’s having all the groupies that makes being an architect so rewarding
22) There should really be more codes to govern this
23) Most Planning and Zoning Departments have really got it all figured out
24) Which car should I drive to work today
25) I don’t think there is enough glass block in this project – work in some more
26) The idea of living in a house I designed sounds terrible
27) I think we should pull in some more consultants and get their opinion
28) Speculative development is the best because you can do whatever you want
29) I hate talking about architecture, I work on that crap all day
30) I don’t see ‘Zombies’ on your programming requirements
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Do you think I missed any? Add them in the comment section -
IF YOU ARE UPSET,LAUGHING,EMBARRASSED AFTER READING THIS, GRAB SOME COFEE AND WATCH THE MOVIE BELOW! WISH THE LIDAR COULD DO THIS!!!!!!!
(By the way, if for some reason this post resonates with you, you might also enjoy ‘When you are an Architect…‘ that someone put together back in January)
See link bleow for more info:
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