March 2012
February 2012
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WatchIt’s funny they are taking them down on a weekend…
salaarchus:
The Lasserre Trees come down.
NOOOOOOO!!!!
Now our ESAC II Instantaneous Energy Calculations are irrelevant!
Changes to the Internship in Architecture Program... →
“If you want to survive, you’re going to have to change. If you don’t change...”
– Thom Mayne - Change or Perish
“Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.”
– Robert Baden-Powell
“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly...”
– Rene Descartes
Does architecture need style?
Style is the mannered repetition of an aesthetic theme; it is inverse of innovation. In taking design’s visual means as an end, architects miss the oppurtunity to let how a building works, or how it is made, inform its appearance. In the wake of countless architectural - isms, there is no need for another short-lived style.
-SHoP architects - Out of Practice
What are the rewards of risk?
In order to guard against risk, architects have become dissociated from the economics and construction of buildings. The result is a loss of position, power, and effectivness - and a state of affairs in which architects have become image makers of buildings designed by zoning attorneys and construction managers. Only by taking responsibility - and, yes liability - can architects regain control...
What classifies architectural practice?
The post-World War II years have witnessed a narrowing of the profession. The role of architect, once that of a visionary master builder, has splintered into dozens of ancillary disciplines, leaving architects in a marginal role. This territory may be reclaimed by using the fundamental skills of the profession to reconnect to technology, ploitics, real estate, economics, product design, and...
Architecture for the Other 99% →
A response to “The Architecture Meltdown”
Last surviving veteran of First World War dies... →
Before her death she said: ”I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked and they were all very good company.
”I would work every hour God sent but I had dozens of friends on the base and we had a great deal of fun in our spare time. In many ways I had the time of my life.
”I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up...
