Interesting article

I really really like this article:

Less is more.

Congratulations, you have officially alienated 75% of the population. Now if you can make Less cost more? You’ll knock out another 23%. The remaining 2% are married to an Architect. Clearly, your practice is off to a good start.

Reducing everything down to the purest, most elegant form is difficult, and only a truely gifted Architect can achieve that level of perfection, and that gifted Architect probably designed a glass house for a crazy lady in a robe, but she died, and now the house is a museum, and, yes, I just called Philip Johnson a crazy lady in a robe, and I think the facts will back me up on that.

Removing all the clutter, and the contradictions, and the character, and the color, and the messiness, and the struggle, and the inconsistency, and the uncertainty, and the imbalance, just to reveal an underlying structure, and an order, and a harmony, and a calm, centered peace…, is a disservice to our humanity.

Like replacing a beating heart with a thick block of glass.

But, Architects continue to strive for that perfection, and we continue to enlarge the divide between what we want and what is wanted, and I think we may have missed the point of what we were trying to do in the first place.

Yes, simplicity is a difficult goal, and clean lines are next to godliness, and purity photographs well. And, nobody cares. Because:

Life is complicated and Life is messy and Life is hard and Life is endlessly fascinating…

So, stop it.

Less is not more.

More is more.

J

-Jody Brown

Via: ArchDaily

"....until like a dullen wine we pour
into a grief know before but never quite like this.
All i know now is regret, it follows like a silhouette
along the cobblestones behind me, but has nothing to
say except to innocently ask, its voice delicate as
glass, "Do you see me when we pass?" but i continue on
my way."

Here's some images from midterm. Thanks so much to Jordan for helping with the renderings. Saved my freaking life....
Now i gots to start over.....

new bond girl

Not quite sure what I think of her yet....





She just seems to lack something that past bond girls had... Not sure what... Maybe a certain stoney disposition?

Working on the Studio Works exhibition right now... Very hard to design a space for other designer's work in a design school... noone's gonna be happy.... Trying to do something more designed and less simply an exhibition of work. I'm thinking something that espouses not only the school's particular pedagogy and process of work, but also on a projected view towards what curation of contemporary artifacts could be (ie, something beyond a jewel box or pedestal position).
Here are a few of the precedents I'm looking at... I need more though:
CCA- [FLUX]- Andrew Kudless



Harvard GSD- New Trajectories: Convergent Flux Korea- MASS Studies


Harvard GSD- Motion Matters Exhibition- UN Studio

gettin' a little tired....

Come on Danny... Even your photographers are getting bored...





ARCHDAILY- LIBESKIND- DRESDEN MILITARY HISTORY MUSEUM
From this article... Dresden Military History Museum is the exact same thing as the Royal Ontario Museum....

ETB Studio

So... ETB Studio just won a competition for a Multifunctional Center in Sappada, Italy. It is a Venice based firm with principals matteo bandiera and alessandro tessari. I really like their rendering/ diagram/ model aesthetics... Everything is very different but it all works very well together. The projects themselves are quite subtle and nice, though they do rely highly on their graphic sensibilities. Very beautiful and painterly... I wonder if the contexts are really that dramatically awesome... Here are some of their projects:
Multifunctional Center





Archaelogical Center, Punta Umbria, Spain




Haciendas de las Flores, Villafrancos de las Barros, Spain




Multigenerational Building, Gend, Switzerland




ETB STUDIO WEBSITE

[ULAR]:Singapore Pavilions

Here are some finished photos of the project I did this summer for the Singapore University of Technology and Design with Thomas Schroepfer. Special thanks to the design team: Dan Weissman- Conceptual Design/ Grasshopper Guru, Sun Koh, Mike Burton, Bea Camacho, and Drew Cowdrey- firefighters and drawing helpers.

Also, I need a more interesting name for this thing than "Singapore Pavilions"... Something that will pop and will read well in portfolios...














Client: Singapore University of Technology and Design
Registered Architect: Thomas Schroepfer
Project Architect: Conway Pedron
Design Architect: Conway Pedron, Dan Weissman
Design Team: Mike Burton, Bea Camacho, Drew Cowdrey, Sun Koh, Azadeh Omidfar

Pavilions featured on Singapore News. More to come.

This hardcore makes me miss kentucky right about now. or at least miss the times when i could go to shows i liked....