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neo-constructivist: (via Form:uLA Dimension LAboratory:...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:52:37 -0600

neo-constructivist:

(via Form:uLA Dimension LAboratory: Collision study)

LEADHOLDER The Drafting Pencil Museum for the discerning...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:54:00 -0600

LEADHOLDER The Drafting Pencil Museum for the discerning draughtsman…

Ask The Concept Of Phenomenology In Architecture As Developed By The Norwegian Theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:15:06 -0600

Ask The Concept Of Phenomenology In Architecture As Developed By The Norwegian Theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz...

Photographs of wooden beams matching the lines of buildings by...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:36:53 -0600

Photographs of wooden beams matching the lines of buildings by Swiss photographers Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs…

“…For each of the photos, the duo constructed a structure of wooden beams that blends in with buildings in the background from the perspective of the camera. The resulting scene looks as though the wood magically connects the lines of the buildings with the foreground…”

ryanpanos: Architecture of Fogo Island via Julien Pelletier

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:17:06 -0700

ryanpanos:

Architecture of Fogo Island via Julien Pelletier

nejmensi: Valmont Butte Boulder, Colorado Passed by here...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:46:00 -0700

nejmensi:

Valmont Butte
Boulder, Colorado

Passed by here today… Controversial little island site that looks as though straight out of “nowhere” Utah or some silver mining operation in Arizona. Nope… It’s surrounded by a lake, baseball fields, a tech center, bike paths, major traffic arteries etc. It’s east Boulder’s dirty little secret. An abandoned toxic clay and rock milling site just east of town. But damn if it isn’t photography eye-candy. Need to sneak in next time and try to grab some up-close and personal shots.

Can read about the varied history and controversy here

Photo

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:34:45 -0700

Architecture Postcards From Around the World

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:12:34 -0700

All images from Postales Inventadas…

“…Postcards and Blogs share something in common. Both contain basically private information but can be read by people who have nothing to do with the writers. There is nothing wrong with reading a postcard that is not addressed to you or checking out a blog that is all about the personal life of an unknown person. A typical way of protecting privacy is using information that will be understood only by the people whom the message is addressed to. Another defensive approach is to be laconic, rather inexpressive. This last strategy is typically seen in postcards…”

ryanpanos: Retrofitting The American Dream by Artur Nesterenko...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:23:12 -0700

ryanpanos:

Retrofitting The American Dream by Artur Nesterenko Alexandrovich

The 2007 market crash forced a relocation of suburban housing into a high-density, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood of the center city and inner suburbs. This created a profound structural shift – a reversal of what took place in the 1950s, when drivable suburbs boomed and flourished as center cities emptied and withered. The fact that the land under the house has no value and the houses are worth less than they would cost to be replaced, creates a big possibility that many fringe suburbs will turn into waste lands, with abandoned houses and a rising crime rate.

Prospecting 2

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:52:59 -0700

Prospecting 2

Copycat Architects in China

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:13:20 -0700

Copycat Architects in China:

Zaha Hadid vs the Pirates…

ryanpanos: Every ACME Corporation product ever created

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:39:38 -0700

ryanpanos:

Every ACME Corporation product ever created

“…’Euthanasia CoastER’ is a hypothetic euthanasia machine...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:41:43 -0700

“…’Euthanasia CoastER’ is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death…”

(via today and tomorrow)

cerreyes-dpr-bcn: Inorganic Flora | Macoto Murayama [2011]

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:08:35 -0600

cerreyes-dpr-bcn:

Inorganic Flora | Macoto Murayama [2011]

Laszlo Moholy Nagy was so ahead of his time… “Ein...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:36:00 -0600

Laszlo Moholy Nagy was so ahead of his time… “Ein Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau” (“A Play of Light Black White and Grey”).

# ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS /// Why do Architects dream of a World without them? | The Funambulist

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:36:49 -0600

# ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS /// Why do Architects dream of a World without them? | The Funambulist:

ryanpanos:

Few decades after the 1964 exhibition Architecture Without Architects curated by Bernard Rudofsky at New York MoMA, there is a clear interest from many architects – in which I most certainly belong – for architectures that did not necessitated the intervention of the architect as an expert. We can thus see a multitude of projects set-up around the various slums/favelas of the world. Some of them are interesting, some others are incredibly inconsiderate, but this does not explain this sort of professional “death drive” that makes architects fascinated by the production of their absence.

This fascination’s reasons are maybe to be looked for with another one, also specific to this current period of time, that makes us, architects, willing to integrate the appropriation of architecture by its users as part of its protocol of creation. Once again, I am fully including my own work within this influence – one might want to say “trend” – but it is important to interrogate our obsessions. Is the notion of appropriation a way for the architect to dismiss his own responsibility and his power? Is it a philanthropic pulse that allows us to offer generously our work to the collectivity? As always, the answer probably comprises both of this extreme propositions.

Why indeed?

Always wanted a to-scale (U.S.) ruler/wallpaper image so I...

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:52:00 -0600

Always wanted a to-scale (U.S.) ruler/wallpaper image so I created one this evening. Designed for iPhone 4/4S (should work on 3G models as well). Based on a classic 1950’s Koh-i-Noor Architect’s scale I own. Designed specifically for use as a lock-screen wallpaper image… Enjoy!

Tumblr defaults images to 500px. To download the correct iPhone resolution click here, right click on image and choose “save…”.

Update 10.20.12: link above now links to revised image. Currently only for iPhone 4S <. Will have an iPhone 5 version at some point…

firsttimeuser: Monowheel, 1933. Walter Nilsson inside the...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:10:09 -0600

firsttimeuser:

Monowheel, 1933. Walter Nilsson inside the wheel

neo-constructivist: (via Untitled Document) Wes Jones…

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:13:00 -0600

neo-constructivist:

(via Untitled Document)

Wes Jones…

We’re getting close to digital full-sized construction...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:45:41 -0600

We’re getting close to digital full-sized construction documents. Exciting stuff…

“…LG just announced that it has begun mass production of a 6-inch, 1024 x 768 e-paper screen that can bend by up to 40 degrees…”

(via The Verge)

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neo-constructivist: (via Form:uLA Dimension LAboratory:...

LEADHOLDER The Drafting Pencil Museum for the discerning...

Ask The Concept Of Phenomenology In Architecture As Developed By The Norwegian Theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz...

Photographs of wooden beams matching the lines of buildings by...

ryanpanos: Architecture of Fogo Island via Julien Pelletier

nejmensi: Valmont Butte Boulder, Colorado Passed by here...

Photo

Architecture Postcards From Around the World

ryanpanos: Retrofitting The American Dream by Artur Nesterenko...

Prospecting 2

Copycat Architects in China

ryanpanos: Every ACME Corporation product ever created

“…’Euthana­sia Coast­ER’ is a hypo­thet­ic euthana­sia machine...

cerreyes-dpr-bcn: Inorganic Flora | Macoto Murayama [2011]

Laszlo Moholy Nagy was so ahead of his time… “Ein...

# ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS /// Why do Architects dream of a World without them? | The Funambulist

Always wanted a to-scale (U.S.) ruler/wallpaper image so I...

firsttimeuser: Monowheel, 1933. Walter Nilsson inside the...

neo-constructivist: (via Untitled Document) Wes Jones…

We’re getting close to digital full-sized construction...

“…’Euthanasia CoastER’ is a hypothetic euthanasia machine...