architectureweek2006

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

Architecture Week 2006 Tags: architectureweek, events Kaboom! Kablooie! Kapow! It's Architecture Week here in the UK. There's no escaping the fact that as an architect with a blog I have a duty to fulfill over the next few days. We'll get started with a few choice picks from the itinerary in my area, the West Midlands. There are plenty more to choose from on the official web site:

augmented_architecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

augmented architecture My e-mail inbox keeps on delivering the goods this week. Just received from Tom Barker at the RCA:

Seminar at the Architectural Association 24+25 November 2005:
”>Surface Intelligence: Ambient and Augmented Architectures.

black

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

paint it black Yawn. Massengale finds a new way to criticise Late Modernists by ”>pointing out a certain preference for black in their wardrobes. In a round about kind of way it reminded me of the piece written by ”>FAT architects a few years ago -

both_and

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

both/and Tags: housing,urbanism,newurbansim Via ArchNewsNow - fantastic piece on housing ”>over Metropolis magazine:

Forget the rampant aestheticism and architectural blinders of the twentieth century. We live in a pluralistic age, and it demands a new pragmatism. We are beyond

brutalised

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

brutalised I deserve a slap. I missed this one first time round. Tonight, via ”>City Comforts, through to ”>John Udell and then finally on to ”>Keith Pleas, I've found a great article on the much talked about Seattle library by Rem Koolhaas.

bullringcarpark

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

that rings a bull Tags: photography,urban,birmingham An iframe test, this could get ugly1. ”> ”> see the complete project ” target=“_blank”

canarywharf

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

Contextual Slippage and the Info Pimp Force Diagram A couple of weeks ago, my boss spent the weekend at his daughter's flat in Canary Wharf in London. Photographs from the trip reminded me of an interior design competition I entered with a couple of friends about 5 years ago. The brief was to design the fit out of the penthouse on one of the new apartment blocks being built at the time. Back then, the internet was beginning to reach what felt like a critical mass of useful information, dynamic …

cedric_price

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

Time to stand and stare Tags:architect,quote Will Alsop on Cedric Price:

Between 1963 and 1971, there was the magazine Architectural Design. AD was about ideas. One or two contributors went on to build their designs, but mainly it was about things that might be done. This was the era of Archigram, the avant-garde design group, and also, most importantly, the critic Reyner Banham. Banham needed Archigram, Price and one or two others because they fed him. Equally, Reyner told them w…

daniel_libeskind

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

a machine for producing gods I was out with ”>Matt on Saturday night; he's a friend from the ”>Wolves LUG. We talked, amongst other things, about the now infamous Daniel Libeskind. Over the weekend I've been trying to source some of his early texts, to supplement our conversation about the complexities of architectural thinking. A quick Googling has let me down so far, so I shall have to re…

deconstructionandtea

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

Deconstruction and Tea Thanks to some great entries over at ”>City of Sound and ”>That Brutal Joint about a piece by ”>Nikos Salingaros posted at ”>2blowhards.com, I've been spurred on to catalogue a piece written by myself and a couple friends a f…

denys-lasdun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

concrete evidence Tags:design,brutalism,denyslasdun,chairs,memories Memories pour from 43 year old chairs like sweat from a glass blower's arse. Used wisely they are tools for dislodging anecdotal diamonds from the deepest mines of architectural history. Returning from the book shop at lunch, clutching my RIBA bag containing

dissertations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

Who do we think we are? The RIBA ”>President's Medals results have just been announced. This year I'm particularly interested in a couple of the dissertation awards. A commendation went to Angela Hatherell from Oxford Brookes University for her piece Who do they think we are? Perceptions of Architects in Twenty First Century Britain.

dublin_arts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

neigh Quick, somebody call the RSPCA*. ”>Libeskind is ”>flogging that one-trick pony again.

* Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals/Architecture

e_act

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

the ultimate erotic act Stolen from ”>Jack's flickr stream:

”>

Stonewall 3 by Monica Bonvicini at ”>DCA.

ed11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

open again Tags: detail,material,photography Just received on e-mail from Ed Frith and posted here simply as a celebration of creative detailing.

” title=“Photo Sharing”>” width=“500” height=“329” alt=“Ed 11

erskine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:48:58+00:00

RIP Ralph Erskine A late entry, on the late ”>Ralph Erskine. I discovered an old double issue of AD magazine from 1977 and proceeded, in the usual way, to scan and share. I've uploaded ”>a series of pages at hi-res so that they can still be read. The 'Office in a Barge' drawing is worth close scrutiny.

europan8-entry

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

pudding Tags:architect,competition,urbandesign There was another point to ”>the creme brulee entry, other than simply the celebration of great dessert. It got cut short by workload this morning. The point was also to thank Al for shedding blood, sweat and probably tears to complete an entry for Europan 8 and then, for reasons I won't go into here, include my name on the submission.

europan8uk-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

wmv version Added a Windows Media version: ”>Europan8-wmv and switched the above for an iPod friendly MP4 format.

europan8uk

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

if you build it Hastily edited on the train home - video coverage of last night's Europan awards. Watch CABE blush as the current poor record for getting winning schemes built is brought home to them. Link: ”>third time lucky (Quicktime video)

extruding_algorithms

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

extruding algorithms Hugh Pearman on ”>one of my favourite firms, Caruso St.John:

A sample of lace will be scanned, turned into a 3D computer model, and moulded into the pigmented precast concrete panels forming the elevations of the centre.

exurban

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

exurban

Exurbia (aka Edge City, subSuburbia, sprawl, outta control, psychick death zones): that newly expanded, resurfaced and subsubcontracted housing areas that aren't really near anything, except the highway.

fantasy_architecture-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:41+00:00

another chance I was wrong. You haven't missed it. It's a touring exhibition which will also be shown during 29 January - 9 April 2005 at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston. See here: ”>RIBA news

fantasy_architecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

Fantasy Architecture, Fantastic Architecture Tonight's offering is mostly photos, apologies to all on a dial up connection. As promised in ”>my previous entry, I visited the Fantasy Architecture exhibition at Walsall Art Gallery on Sunday.

fawood

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

Will Price

More image/text mash ups.

”>

'...seems to admit more affinity with construction photos than with images of finished buildings ... divisions haven't yet been filled in ... leaves openings for life to develop and lets the architect suggest an unpredictable future

flw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

flw On the arrogance of architects (from the comments on an article entitled ”>'Why architects give me the willies'):

I'm a graphic designer at an architecture firm, and am currently setting up a new business-card template to send to the printer. The templates had been designed to accommodate long, hyphenated last names as well as multiple professional accreditation initials.

fogindex

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

fog index John Massengale ”>has been getting understandably upset about ”>the work of the Kolatan / MacDonald studio. And so he should, it's a fine example of how we architects love to make hard work out of something as simple as putting a few sentences together. Look:

gated_communities

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

bullet proof communities Wanted: undercover special ops. team to travel through time and prevent the publication of a recent paper by the ”>European Committee for Standardisation - $FILE/p99dn40e.pdf”>Prevention of Crime - Urban Planning and Design. If these fools are allowed to have their say and their proposal f…

gehrys_gone_bad

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

Being Frank Oh dear. It's not been too rosy for Mr Gehry lately. So far we've had ”>snow falling on students head's, ”>clients employing other architects to fix bits they don't like and a hockey trophy which

glancey-style

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

with style We could do with a few more critics like Jonathan Glancey.

The debate over quality, or lack of it, in the development of mass housing in sweeping tracts of southern England has been fuelled by Cabe, the government's Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. Its chief executive, Richard Simmons, wrote in the Guardian:

good_year

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

A good year Only a year has passed and I'm already a vintage according to The Times: ” title=“Photo Sharing”>” width=“500” height=“442” alt=“arb_2004” />

gotharchitect

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

Goth architect Just a quick note to point out that there is further discussion of the ”>design codes and the implications of Prince Charles' carbuncle speech in this weeks copy of ”>Building Design (subscription required). There's a history of the Prince's Foundation's influence and it includes a comment about how

half-life-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

flat eric Almost forgot. I did some work with the Quake modelling engine too. The eye-level of the view point is a little too high for domestic scale work though. Say hello to Flat Eric and his machine gun. ” title=“Photo Sharing”>

half-life

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

smashing It beat me.

” title=“Photo Sharing”>” width=“257” height=“393” alt=“shot” />

Back in 2002 I spent what felt like half my life experimenting with the modelling tools used to create Half Life. My goal being to create a virtual model of my building that the viewer would have complete control over. The first time I sat in front of t…

housingprototypes.txt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

Housing matrix tags: architecture, housing

”>housingprototypes.org, a guide to housing design examples listed by project, architect, building typology, city and country:

HousingPrototypes.org contains examples of housing designed by different architects in different historic periods, countries, and cities. Projects range in scale from single buildings to examples of large social housing projects containing thousands of dwellings. A typ…

iansaunders

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

unmixed use It was never my intention for this blog to become a ~~suppository~~ repository for comments on the new Selfridges building in Birmingham, but neither do I try to engineer any fixed direction for my content. This is, after all, merely notes to self. If confluences of events conspire against me, so be it.

idiotes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

back and forth It seems ”>this one just doesn't want to lie down. Salingaros ”>posted a response to the criticism of his paper on Tschumi, and Brutal Joint followed it with ”>a response to the response. City Comforts just filed a

in_search_of_suburbia

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

in celebration of the ordinary At the ”>MoDA:

In Search of Suburbia: 11 October 2005 - 26 March 2006 We are all familiar with the suburbs. The majority of the UK's population lives there. We all know what we mean by suburbia. For many of us it is summed up by the 1930s semi-detached family house with front and back gardens. And many of us have strong feelings about it, whether positive, qu…

interbuild_2004-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

screwup I have been duly reprimanded by my ex-fellow student and architectural adventurer, Bobby H, for the above comment about Sketchup and orthographic drawings.

It is with great regret that I have to inform you that you have given incorrect information to readers of your blog regarding the export options of sketchup. I have been using this programme for some time and must report that you can indeed export orthographic projections directly into autocad at the correct scale. Indee…

interbuild_2004

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

Pass the (s)ketchup It's a few years since I last visited the Interbuild exhibition. So long, in fact, that the last time I went the atmosphere was sufficiently un-PC to allow for a collection of under dressed women to be seen demonstrating the baths and jacuzzis. No such luck this year.

kerfuffle-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

more news: from ”>The Gutter

Which well-known New Urbanists, not hailing from Greater Miami, were overheard making the following less-than PC comments after a ceremony to honor Frank Gehry's contributions to the cityscape?

kerfuffle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

crowd surfing There's a bit of a kerfuffle going on in the new-urbanist camp. The CNU has surprised everyone by giving the shiniest of all 'starchitects', Frank Gehry (mates ”>with Brad Pitt, appeared ”>in The Simpsons), an

kiss

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

Poetic Cross-Dressing

We'll have time for coffee flavoured kisses
And a bit of conversation.

My caffeine fix was served by a rather brusque Italian woman today. For once, the language on the menu matched the accent. It's hardly authentic though, unlike the coffee shop that has

light_dark

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

follow the light A few weeks ago I was taken to task by my friend ”>Matthew over my enthusiasm for Walsall Art Gallery. I mounted a defence and then we agreed to let the building have the final say and pay it a visit together. I don't expect to have to say anything further.

like_bilbao

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

FLW From an ”>e-mail received by The Gutter, regarding Google's logo tweak to celebrate the birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright:

Telling people you're an architect and having them say they like Frank Lloyd Wright is like telling them you're a novelist and being told they like Steinbeck. It's like, um, okay

mad_scientists

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

mad scientists Separated at birth? Architect, ”>Greg Lynn:

” title=“Photo Sharing”>” width=“211” height=“263” alt=“greg_lynn” />

Greg Lynn will present some projects that

manplan_1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

MANPLAN 1 Dan, over at City of Sound, ”>mentioned it a few days ago and then the eagle-eyed Jonathan from Things Magazine ”>picked up on it. I posted a comment about it, wandered over to a dusty corner of the office whilst my boss wasn't looking, stole it, scanned it and

manplan_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:42+00:00

MANPLAN 2 As ”>promised, here's number 2 in the 1969 Architectural Review series entitled Manplan. The second issue focuses on communication. You can see ”>the full set on my flickr account. ”

members-only-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

Muppets only The above link was wonky. Now fixed thanks to comments from ”>Norman, who also points out that the AJ appear to have experimented with the possibility of a blogspot account but have yet to post any entries to it:

members-only

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

Members only tags: blog, aj The AJ launches a blog.

Astragal starts blogging For the first time in the 111-year history of the AJ, the magazine's most famous contributor has gone virtual. Indeed, in a move that will astonish some of his longest serving readers, Astragal has started his very own blog.

minimal

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

minimal

The architecture of a computer system we define as the minimal set of properties that determine what programs will run and what results they will produce.

Fred Brooks quoted in a ”>recent entry by Peter.

more_shepheard

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

more shepheard Brought forward from the comments in my entry about ”>'What is Architecture?':

”>Artificial Love is good also. About Shepheard blogging; I've just found this:
”> I think it's better than any blog.

mythical-city

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

mythical city Continuing the ”>teaching theme, I've snaffled an assignment proposition - circa '84/'85 - from the dusty shelves here at the office. It's offered in fairly high resolution over at flickr for anyone looking for inspiration when faced with a room full of eager urban design students.

nla

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

NLA critique The public speaks. Or perhaps just a bunch of architects. Who knows what the visitor list consists of at the ”>New London Architecture exhibition? Is it just gaining interest from people in the trade (and related trades) or is it pulling people in off the street?

novak-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

british ones too A note to explain the image in the AR article: It's one of two sent to me by my friend ”>Avril in New York and you need the second one to get the full story. In her words:

...that photo was taken at the NY Milkshake Company, on St. Mark's Place, in NYC

novak

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

novak I received a text message last night from ”>Tom the caveman:

”>Marcus Novak lecture on friday at UCL

Since one of his past articles was the inspiration for ”>my obligatory internet pseudonym I felt compelled to attend. Two minutes later I realised I …

ole_2-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

part 3 added Notes from the summary of this lecture can be found in ”>Part 3.

ole_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

problem solving

Part 2 of a 3 part series: The Ole Scheeren lecture

Reeling from the shock of Ole's 33m deep whole that he'd shown on the slide that finished ” alt=“link to part 1 of this entry”>the first half of his lecture, we all did our best to adust the scale of our thinking as he begun to tell us about an exhibition called Cities on the Move. The subtitle was 'an exhibition on the Asia…

ole_3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

settling up

The third and final part of my notes on the Ole Scheeren lecture.

*applause* Lecture over, it was time for questions from the audience. Suffering from 'an obligation to blog', my hand went up first. A microphone is passed to me. As usual for events such as this, it isn't switched on. Feeling slightly foolish, I speak at it anyway.

ole-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

part 2 added Notes from the second half of this lecture can be found in “>Part 2.

ole-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

part 3 added Notes from the summary of this lecture can be found in ”>Part 3.

ole

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

Ole Scheeren

Part One of a ? part series: The Ole Scheeren lecture

Thanks to my colleague Al, I've been able to get a copy of the final conclusion to one of ”>the dissertations I mentioned a few weeks ago. Here's a couple of sections taken from the author's final summing up. Firstly, on the topic of the architect's character:

open_house_2005

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

open house My visit to the London a couple of weeks ago was poorly timed and I missed the ”>Open House event last weekend. Don't panic, I can still deliver the goods - I dispatched my colleague Yumiko to bring back news and photos.

open-sauce

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

open sauce Tags:participation,consultation,design,theory Just landed via e-mail; ”>Usman Haque in issue no.7 of ”>Archfarm on applying the open source software model to architecture:

There are several key features to an open source architecture:

oscar_naddermier

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

The Lesson of Movement Either I'm getting weaker, or banana skins are getting stronger. Tonight's entry is inspired by my ”>previous comments about Oscar Naddermier, my first architectural history lecturer. I returned to his notes and decided that they should be shared with you. Oscar preferred his students to be listening rather than writing, so he always typed out his notes himself and issued them at the start of…

outrigger

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

outrigger tags: architecture, building, plan, sketch, advent, gift

Architectural Advent day 11: (will I ever catch up?)

After several years of housing market boom here in the UK, there are lots of people drawing down on mortgages and extending their home. I've been involved in a few over recent years, and in a city who's housing stock is largely made up of Victorian terraces there is often a pattern to the house type that people wish to extend. The outrigger of a standa…

papercut-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

humble pie I just got back from the Will Alsop lecture. It was probably the most inspirational lecture I've been to for years, and, as you know, I've been to some good lectures. I retract my previous flippant comment about him in the above post. Full notes will follow.

papercut

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

if web designers had to... Found via ”>The Gray Area; Marcus Trimble has saved me a job with his ”>If Web Designers Had To Work Like Architects entry. You'll have probably seen ”>the original…

part3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

Part 3 Posted mainly as a gift to my friend Rob S, but also as an offering to any architecture students who happen to Google for RIBA Part 3 Management Papers, I give you ”>my own paper from last year's exam (PDF link).

pritzker-price

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

Pritzker price Tags:Corbusier,hotel,France Over at gravestmor.com, ”>Marcus is agog at the rates ($3000 dollars a night) at a new hotel being designed by Glen Murcutt:

...it got me thinking about whether or not this is the going rate to stay in accomodation designed by Pritzker and/or Guru Architects. And so below is a woefully incomplete list of boutique accomodation. Note that in…

public-budget

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:43+00:00

The Public out of pocket Oh dear. I was beginning to wonder why ”>The Public building was taking a while to finish. ”>Here's the answer:

Administrators have been called in at a multi-million pound arts centre being developed in the Black Country.

radiotecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

radiotecture

Matt: Have you seen the Radio 3 architecture thing?

Me: No, what is it? Sounds good.

Matt: To be honest, I filed it under “tell Rob about that” and forgot it.

Doh! Serves me right for not paying enough attention to Radio 3. Thanks Matt. You should all go and check out his

ralph_erskine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:49:07+00:00

Well here with Ralph Erskine I think the combination of these two are an effective one. Well one afternoon is too great a coincidence to not take great advantage of it I think we will be seeing some very interesting ideas emerge. Let me just say by way of introduction to crawl because I'm sure you know his word that the to me the fascinating aspect of what you've doing with participation in architecture fascinating aspect is that he and Erskine are in participating with their clients in working …

reciprocal_data-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

source: I've e-mailed the guy who's built this project, but no reply yet. I've noticed that like the entry I mention above, he also carries a reference to the writing of Marcos Novak. It seems it is Novak who we should both be thanking.

reciprocal_data-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

winner! The project has ”>won first prize at an awards ceremony. Perhaps I should ask for a cut of the winnings.

reciprocal_data

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

reciprocal data Bugger me. ”>Somebody built my ”>Info Pimp Force Diagram.

regent_street-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

down to two Citycomforts.com has an entry called ”>Boiling a zoning code down to the basics, which links to an encouraging article about a Canadian design code that contains only two key items - building height and distance from pavement.

regent_street

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

a task worth trying Last week, an interesting exchange about Regent Street in London, between John Massengale's ”>Veritas et Venustas and Peter Lindberg's ”>Tesugen.com, prompted me to reach for my bookshelf and open my copy of 'How to Look at Buildings'.

renzo_and_i

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

compromise Tags: interview,audio,architect Catching up with some old Radio 3 programs this evening. Firstly, The Renzo Piano interview by ”>John Tulsa.

RP: “...by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, by the complexity of things.

rietveld

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

topiary, grotbags, rietveld and schroder

A doyen of Topiary once told me,
That one day he would like to grow a maze,
It seemed to be quite logical
That this should be his wish.
And with that
We both went our separate ways.

schmuck-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

do what? Just fixed the broken link in the exactly what I do on a daily basis comment. Click away.

schmuck-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

code speak Apart from the fact that documents like the one I'm about to quote are beginning to state the blindingly obvious, it's also becoming necessary to talk them up their importance a little:

This appendix to the B_ S_ Housing Market Renewal Prospectus sets out the strategic design strategies that will help deliver these objectives on the ground in the Pathfinder area and is part of a wider initiative by the Pathfinder to develop tools to enhance quality in design. This recog…

schmuck

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

flames I am, ”>according to John Massengale at Veritas et Venustas, a schmuck. Of course I understood this was derogatory, but I was inspired to look it up.

Originally, schmuck meant decoration or ornament in German. It's easy to see how that would become a word for jewelry, but what about the other meaning? In Yiddish (a language related to German, spoken primarily by European Jews), schmuck means p…

segal

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

walter segal Continuing in the no, 2 self tradition of archiving architectural wisdom fom the printed page of years gone by, I've started ”>a set of images taken from Walter Segal's 1953 book, Home and Environment.

shoe_event

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

Hung, drawn and quartered The drinking habits of the average Brit has ”>been in the media again this week. The finger of blame is pointing towards ”>drinks promotions by bars and breweries; happy hour becomes a great deal unhappier when it meets the pavement at closing time. Here in Birmingham the

silver_medal_2005

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

going for ~~gold~~ silver The ”>aforemontioned Mr Alan Morrissey has been shortlisted for this year's RIBA Silver Medal Awards. Fill your boots here: ”>The President's Medals Students Awards

sos

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

Save Our School You may remember from previous entries that I've been involved with the Birmingham School of Architecture, as both student and teacher, for many years. For the last few months there has been turmoil at the school following some poor results and press coverage that has done serious damage to it's reputation.

sucks-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

and sometimes it blows Aforementioned t-shirt is now in the washing machine, in preparation for a visit to Will Alsop's soon to be completed building ”>THE pUBLIC in West Bromwich tomorrow. The open event runs from 11am to 3pm; families and kids welcome, hard hats will be provided.

sucks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

architecture sucks On a day when I have little more than 24 hours to finish two major urban regeneration reports (”>1, 2) and getting any sleep tonight is looking increasingly unlikely, this morning's postal delivery couldn't have been more timely.

superbia

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

Superbia tags: suburbia, housing From ~~today's~~ last week's ”>BD magazine:

Housing Corporation chief executive Jon Rouse, who controls a £3.6 billion development budget over the next two years, outlined seven reasons for a return to suburbia and said anyone who believes the country's housing crisis can be met through the expansion of urban centres is

thatbuilding-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

mall(ed) Whilst there's plenty I dislike about the Bullring shopping centre, I should point out that the linear mall that stretches across the site is actually quite successful. The proportions are good and the voids between floors make for good views across the different levels. From a couple of places you can also see parts of the Birmingham skyline through the glazed roof.

thatbuilding-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

piggy

”>but she's a girl says;

..I rather like the brashness of it, for no reason that I can really justify. I normally hate brash buildings, but the bullring seems to be so ugly that it sort of passes out the other side and becomes attractive. Like a warthog.

thatbuilding-3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

inside Just remembered that I have some pics of the interior ”>here.

thatbuilding

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

that building A couple of weeks ago I posted some entries that included a mention of something called ”>'this building' and then ”>'that building'. I should explain that the building in question was the new Selfridges store by Future Systems. I had an entry about it written on my PDA, but a clumsy battery replaceme…

vinoly-classes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

Masterclass Live in New York? ”>Get free tuition from Rafael Viñoly:

Offered for a second time, the four-month course develops the operational and intellectual instruments that form the basis of professional practice. Without substituting for a formal architectural education, weekly classes are addressed to advanced students and practicing architects who find a significant gap between their formative instruction and the challenges they face…

vpro_tracey

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

mvrdv are go The VPRO building by MVRDV:

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Thunderbirds Tracy Island Rescue Mat - £9.98 from Asda:

wayne-jacobs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

Wayne Jacobs Tags:suburbia,JaneJacobs,housing,WayneHemingway A letter to the Architect's Journal:

”>Wayne Hemingway's lecture at this week's ”>affordable housing conference was a great start to the day. With perceptive observations that were very well presented, he was one of the few people to talk about how to deliver cultural sustainability in affordable housing as well as envir…

windows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-08-16T19:46:44+00:00

Passive solar design tags: advent, gift, windows, pdf, solar, passive, sketch

Architectural Advent Day 4:

There is more to windows than meets the eye. An 3 page excerpt from a 1979 study that's as relevant now as it ever was thanks to continued climate change - passive solar spaces:

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