Saturday, September 25, 2004
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Saturday, July 17, 2004
a-matter - architecture and related. The online medium for architecture. and visited page 5 courtesy of things.
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Life ahead of the curve / The world is finally catching on to iconoclastic architect Dan Liebermann's way of building—in the interest of old newspaper removal. An excellent young architect the Toph worked with went to work for his eminence after the Mt. Vision fire and moved a project forward. The office approach was to be be assertive, let's say, with building officials, and the results are truly unique buildings with a basic umbrella-like structural system seen nowhere else. The article describes this and the characteristic canoe-shaped floorplan and building pad he uses for his hillside buildings:
Liebermann says the most efficient structure requires a circular floor plan. Rather than "cutting a big, nasty, square hole" in the ground and building a "nasty retaining wall with a cold space behind it that fills with dirt and leaves," he works with a hill's contours (most of his houses are on steep hillsides), making an elliptical cut, "a bite out of an apple."
Borrowing from his father's expertise as a dam engineer, Liebermann then creates a concave, curving retaining wall, like a bowl halved top to bottom. (Curved structures are stronger, he maintains, so they predominate in nature, as in craniums, eggs and seashells.)
His retaining wall doubles as the main interior wall of the house. Because such a wall could look forbidding, he usually softens it with a massive fireplace. Featuring a hollow large enough to roast a boar, and stacks of limestone stretching across the wall, the ensemble beckons aesthetically and emotionally. Liebermann explains that a fireplace provides "tremendous therapy" because it's a "primordial, womb-like cave, a place of warmth and security."
As for the rest of the house, he figures the best way to cover an ellipse is with an umbrella. He constructs a central column, perhaps a straightforward steel pole or a birch trunk salvaged from a forest fire. Sometimes he opts for a structure of woven steel beams, the straight pieces appearing to curve as in an Asian wicker stool. Planted deep in the ground like a tree and braced firmly at the floor slab, the central column acts structurally like the tower of a suspension bridge or the mast of a boat.
Liebermann says that during an earthquake the whole building moves together like a boat on waves: "You have a holistic, static relationship between all the parts in my buildings."
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Monday, May 17, 2004
The New York Times > New York Region > After 100 Years, a New Rule Book for New York -- toward replacing the building code with model International Building Code
Sunday, May 16, 2004
A house divided / Architect's pre-fab plan to take the sting out of housing market, the Glidehouse arrives on a truck and costs $120 per square foot.
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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Friday, April 16, 2004
Presentation of Competation for the Architecture Design of National Stadium (2008 olympic Main Stadium) described as Really Weird Buildings by K10K news
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Turtle Bay | Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay via Truc BAYA correspondence, "Calatrava's first freestanding bridge in the United States."
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Friday, April 02, 2004
The Star/Kansas City Millennium: The 1960s: "On Monday night, June 4, 1979, a violent thunderstorm, accompanied by strong winds and heavy rains, collapsed the roof of the 5-year-old Kemper Arena, where, just the Monday before, the disco group the Village People had played. Just two days before the collapse 13,500 people had packed the arena for a truck pull.
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Friday, March 26, 2004
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Michael McDonough: Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Ecotecture | Helical Geometry: A foundation for Nature-based Architecture--something to build for the little master?
v-2 Organisation | news | Junk architecture refers to a BAR fancy hotel similar to Common Ground Community and paraSITE inflatables very similar to an office the Ant Farm designed for the Toph around 1970, an inflatable room within a cold porch in back of a church being borrowed as a non-profit arts organization. It depended on reducing draft for climate control, and was a bit inconvenient to open--turn on fan--, walk around (because it filled the room), and get in and out of. The evolution of the inflatable as a heated room with walls inflating, rather than a single space inflating, and filled with whatever warm waste air comes from a building is impressive.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Friday, February 20, 2004
Caterina.net has an article on philosophers and dwelling, namely Heidegger and Bachelard. The gist of her post is the modern house is a brutish machine providing scant comfort and TV invades it horribly. Read it.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Untitled Document: "CTC - A leader in technology driven support services for the Architectural, Engineering, and Building industries"
Monday, February 02, 2004
J?rg Sasse - '(in-) visible' is a short essay on the photograph as a limited way to experience architecture.
Curious how a drawing matches a photograph: both take a two-dimensional static view. Even a virtual model seen only on the computer screen has this limitation.
Curious how a drawing matches a photograph: both take a two-dimensional static view. Even a virtual model seen only on the computer screen has this limitation.
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
. : an image a day keeps the doctor away : . . . : photoblog by christian reister : .: Barcelona Skyline, April 2003, 2004-01-15 shown without frame or navigate -> chronological January 2004 Barcelona Skyline. Hope the sell-by date is far off in this image that apparently shows Sagrada Familia in rooftop context.
Monday, January 26, 2004
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Via Boynton Which Dead Poet Are You? - Quizilla
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Friday, January 23, 2004
Thursday, January 22, 2004
thingsmagazine.net: daily links, photos and new writing about objects: Tricorn Center, pictures and Proles for Modernism
Friday, January 09, 2004
Friday, January 02, 2004
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Roundhouse design is four post, massive columns with heavy lintels that have to be lifted with a small crane in a massive work party. These pictures from Pine Grove Elementary School are pretty good.
Indian Grinding Rock SHP for Miwok roundhouse and this pdf of the brochure -- this entry from October visit is conspicuous by its absence, but 4th grade were there and more besides. This thing is supposed to be like a famous elusive house. It is the stuff of poetry.
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Friday, December 19, 2003
Architects Unveil Revised Freedom Tower Design, oh yeah, hey, what, what it is, peace ’n’ freedom, more whoopee, yay.
MSNBC - New Trade Center tower design unveiled, hooray hurrah whoopee clap clap clap clap whistle.
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Monday, December 15, 2003
Saturday, December 13, 2003
Friday, December 12, 2003
Thursday, December 11, 2003
More Revisions in Plans for New York:
The nearly completed design for the signature tower at the World Trade Center site would recapture the title of world's tallest building for New York City without forcing anyone to work higher than 70 stories in the sky.
Gov. George E. Pataki, who effectively controls the rebuilding process at ground zero, will unveil the plan next week. It will bear little resemblance to the asymmetrical and angular design by Daniel Libeskind that has been in the public eye for almost a year. Instead, it is largely the work of David M. Childs, the architect for the tower's developer, Larry A. Silverstein.
The future looks like tweezers in baby steps and in big steps, Challenging Norms: Eisenman's obsession.
Sunday, November 23, 2003
Wired 8.02: Making It Morph: "After thinking through various structures - some buoyant, some partially submerged - Diller Scofidio hit on fog, which was not only a local phenomenon but a dynamic one. To test the possibility, the architects rented a barge on Lake Neuchâtel and held a fog-off to test the nozzles of three companies. According to Scofidio, they chose the one that produced 'the densest, richest fog.' By last fall, they'd finished the structural engineering. The cloud building is an open-air system of glass-and-steel walkways enveloped in a thick haze created by 12,500 high-pressure jets. A built-in weather station controls the fog system: Measuring wind speed and direction, temperature, and humidity, it then sends the appropriate fog-demand signals to the 13 output zones."
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