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“Life Begins at the Apocalypse Monster Club” — a personal tribute to Rem Koolhaas' “Exodus” collage by scholar Enrique Ramirez

2017-09-14T17:45:00-04:00

The pitch-perfect paean to the only city we knew could have been taken straight from Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture: The Avowal (1972) by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis [...] No wonder, then, that of all the images from this project, a photocollage of musicians posing in the “strip of intense metropolitan desirability” resonates with my memories of Houston and its eclectic punk scene.

Inspired by the confusing yet formative years of adolescence, Harvard Design Magazine's “Seventeen” issue explores “teens of all sorts—humans, buildings, objects, ideas—and their impact on the spatial imagination”.

In the poetic “Life Begins at the Apocalypse Monster Club” by architectural scholar and historian (and recording/touring bassist) Enrique Ramirez, he reflects on his punk-rock teenage years in the transforming “Space City” of Houston, and his personal connection to Rem Koolhaas' 1972 photocollage, “Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture: The Avowal”.

“This is a vision of youthful urbanism. This was us. This was our band. And like the titular dwellers of Exodus, we transformed the city, building a version of it that mirrored our own desires,” Ramirez writes.

Explore architecture and design at UCLA this Summer

2016-03-11T12:23:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by UCLA A.UD.

Summer is almost here and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design are looking forward to an exciting four weeks packed with design, architecture and exploration! Individuals in the A.UD Summer Program spend their days investigating the world of Los Angeles architecture and design through two unique summer programs in architecture, design, and related fields: JumpStart (July 5-29) and Teen Arch Studio (July 11-22, with PLUS extension from July 24- July 29).

Learning from the brightest of A.UD design instructors, individuals enrolled in JumpStart and TeenArch programs acquire new skills in digital software and 3D modeling while building up their own portfolio for future endeavors. Studio time is typically composed of lectures on conceptual themes related to assigned coursework, and technical tutorials in digital modeling and drawing. Students are divided into small sections of 9-12 students, and assigned to individual instructors and TA’s for tutori...

Start 'em young: teenaged son picks architect for family's house

2015-08-04T14:54:00-04:00

The family hadn’t been in New Jersey long ... and they still missed their previous home, a modernist design that Ms. Wong, in particular, had loved. So Andrew, who was then in eighth grade, suggested commissioning an architect to build a modern house. [...] “being type-A parents ... we thought maybe it would be an experience for him to work with architects and be intrinsically involved in building a house.” [...] "He was interested in design, and they empowered him.”

More teenaged architecture dreams:

Teenager builds tiny home to avoid mortgage trap

2011-08-31T13:42:31-04:00

Sixteen-year-old Austin Hay of Santa Rosa, Calif., has been sleeping in a work-in-progress 130 square foot "tiny home" in his parents' backyard for months. The project came about because "like every teenager, I want to move out," says Hay.