2024-05-06T03:55:03-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/123044351/improvisation-and-troublemaking-frank-gehry-in-conversation-with-eric-owen-moss-at-sci-arc Scott Kepford, AIA 2015-03-16T14:16:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6i/6itdpxvampzpgu62.JPG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Despite making recent news for a particularly <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/111961395/frank-gehry-gives-the-crowd-a-piece-of-his-mind-and-his-middle-finger" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">antisocial public display</a>, Frank Gehry remains a highly influential and crowd-drawing figure, as evidenced by SCI-Arc&rsquo;s completely full Keck Lecture Hall over an hour before Gehry took the stage on Wednesday, March 4, for a lecture with Eric Owen Moss.</p><p>The lecture was the last in a series of five annual lectures honoring late SCI-Arc faculty Raimund Abraham, and opened with memorial remembrances of Abraham by Moss and Gehry. The lecture, &ldquo;You Can&rsquo;t Rehearse Something You Haven&rsquo;t Invented Yet&rdquo;, was a quote Gehry supplied to Moss from jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter. The improvisational quality of Jazz as it relates to Gehry&rsquo;s process of design was a major thread through the talk. Gehry related the actors required to produce a building &ndash; client, contractor, project manager (&ldquo;we don&rsquo;t really need those guys though&rdquo; he quipped), building department, and bank &ndash; to the constraining three notes around which an improvisational jazz composition wou...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/95424608/editor-s-picks-358 Nam Henderson 2014-03-12T15:10:00-04:00 >2014-03-13T11:46:22-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7h/7hi5oej7331iw7bk.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The latest edition of <strong>Student Works:</strong> highlighted three different pop-up shops designed and built by some students at Tsinghua University in Beijing for their "<strong>Tectonic Studio</strong>". <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/92247936/student-works-tectonic-studio-from-tsinghua-university" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Constructed for under 2500 RMB (569 USD or 412 EUR), the program was to store and sell t-shirts.</a></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/m6/m6febow68e0o3yzj.jpg"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>arllita</strong> felt they were "<em>beautifully designed and provide an efficient solution to rolling storage! Do you know if they or something similar are available for sale and, if so, are you able to direct me?</em>"</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/bn/bnrr8zlvbvv87q61.jpg"></p><p>Meanwhile, the ninth edition of <strong>Screen/Print</strong><strong>: </strong>featured: <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/94572663/screen-print-9-sean-lally-s-the-air-from-other-planets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come</em></a><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/94572663/screen-print-9-sean-lally-s-the-air-from-other-planets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> &nbsp;by Sean Lally</a>.&nbsp;The featured excerpt is from the introduction where Lally proposes;</p><p>"<em>Instead of thinking of architecture as a mass of inert and ossified energy&mdash;even stone and steel were not always solid masses&mdash;standing as walls in opposition to their surroundings and carving out interior space, why not look to intensify those very energy systems we know are capable of creating microclimates and ...</em></p>