, ten years ago??? man containers are a hippie 60´s thing (if not previous)!!!...
"e", didnt Corbu said that a roof that dont leak is because the lack of creativity by the architect??? ;-)
SPACEMAN, dont "development" and "sustainability" seem oposite terms by nature??? seems any technological development involves the consumption of somekind of natural resource...i dunno something about "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" just make my face tweak...
virtual reality - buildings with surfaces as projection screens.
Like in the book Farenheit 451 where the people are dumb and TV is a room in your house and it is on all four walls and you just sort of sit in there all day and "interact" with it.
MAD, re: development vs. sustainability. they seem like necessary opposites, but check out mcdonough/braungart's book "cradle to cradle" for a vision of how this doesn't have to be so. a pipe dream, given our political and economic climate, but an intriguing vision nonetheless.
to leak: when architects can not design/detail their buildings properly thus leading to water seeping into every crevasse and valley. ie. frank gehry et al.
Architect and designer Oliver Heath of Blustin Heath Design says: "There is a real sense that trends are happening so quickly nowadays that it's difficult for manufacturers and retailers to keep up." Heath advises Dulux on its paint colours and consults for trendspotter CLK Brand Futures on emerging interior design trends. Consumer tastes are becoming more fragmented and eclectic, meaning that the concept of the "next big thing" is increasingly outdated. "People are becoming more aesthetically independent," he says. "They're looking for their own styles."
"....... arguing that many architects aren't interested in what building users want and instead are more interested in imposing their own future scenarios on people. Take Marks Barfield Architects' proposal for solving the housing crisis with a high-rise residential system called the SkyHouse, launched with much fanfare earlier this year. The architects first developed their ideas for the buildings, and then asked market researchers to identify who might want to live there. This is the wrong way to go about doing things, Raymond argues: "They were assuming their design was right and just needed tweaking," he says. "There is an arrogance [among architects] that we found quite surprising." Instead, Raymond urges architects to "actually live with, work with and track the community they are building for so they can get a realistic idea of usage, as in how, who, and most importantly why".
Marks Barfield might reply by citing their London Eye - a structure that, critics argued, wasn't needed, couldn't be built and would ruin the skyline. Yet this unlikely structure has started a trend and cities around the world - including Singapore, Shanghai and Las Vegas - are now racing to build their own giant Ferris wheels. Or did the trendspotters see that one coming too?"
On the same topic I am currently reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson - facinating glimpse into the near future - good story as well.
bots - right on. if architects in the u.s. give the people what they want (the results of preliminary market research), we'll all be drawing plans for faux-tudor builder houses. key is showing people what they don't know they want.
it seems that , this is what the fetish-object (e.g. ipod, crossfire, razr) designers are doing as well, despite what mr. heath says.
people really need to let go of blobs....I know a lot have them in their portfolios...sorry ;-)
REAL fabrication - prefab particularly, not custum CNC'd ribs with shiny metal around them, but real solutions that save money and provide better quality
GREEN - more passive/active solar, better understanding of products, more demand
STYLE - it will move more towards a stylized modernism, but with more tactile/warm qualities
It was FLW that said that if a roof doesn't leak he wasn't trying hard enough to do something new. It was said as he was telling the president of the Johnson Wax Company to put a trashcan on his desk to catch the water leaking from Wright's "lilly pad" and skylight roof.
trace you mention "Real-Green-Style" please let me add my resoning;
REAL fabrication - innovation and new jobs, CNC as any other manufactoring bringing the CAD into production as any other design tool as an easyer entrance to the digital oppotunity.
GREEN - develobing new but less energy comsuming materials by cutting the number of production lines. Various types of sheet material being worked in a low energy comsuming yet simple direct-link production focusing on one-off that now will be an option while production focus on the digital develobment.
STYLE - Style will follow fabrication. When a more flexible manufactoring are avaible a new architecture will grow, with even further develobment away from the old manufactoring and the multible assembly lines are replaced with more clever manufactoring and working ,both production and comsuming will profit , the one-off aproach will spark a need for more advanced technikes and new jobs will show.
post-blob? what is the next big thing?
have the theorists moved on? to what?
what is kipnis talking about now?
i thought theory was dead and the next big thing is digital fabrication.
Good buildings?
buildings that don't leak.
Cargo Containers.
Oh wait, that was ten years ago. Damn.
virtual buildings
quonset huts
Sustainable development
architecture is dead. the next big thing is ascetic monasticism and autoflagellation.
Bringing Buildings from Virtuality to Reality through a STARGATE!!!
, ten years ago??? man containers are a hippie 60´s thing (if not previous)!!!...
"e", didnt Corbu said that a roof that dont leak is because the lack of creativity by the architect??? ;-)
SPACEMAN, dont "development" and "sustainability" seem oposite terms by nature??? seems any technological development involves the consumption of somekind of natural resource...i dunno something about "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" just make my face tweak...
virtual reality - buildings with surfaces as projection screens.
Like in the book Farenheit 451 where the people are dumb and TV is a room in your house and it is on all four walls and you just sort of sit in there all day and "interact" with it.
MAD, re: development vs. sustainability. they seem like necessary opposites, but check out mcdonough/braungart's book "cradle to cradle" for a vision of how this doesn't have to be so. a pipe dream, given our political and economic climate, but an intriguing vision nonetheless.
1. We have to come up with something that is architectural but not buildable.
2. We need to build a good blob.
to leak: when architects can not design/detail their buildings properly thus leading to water seeping into every crevasse and valley. ie. frank gehry et al.
from ICON mag (UK)
Architect and designer Oliver Heath of Blustin Heath Design says: "There is a real sense that trends are happening so quickly nowadays that it's difficult for manufacturers and retailers to keep up." Heath advises Dulux on its paint colours and consults for trendspotter CLK Brand Futures on emerging interior design trends. Consumer tastes are becoming more fragmented and eclectic, meaning that the concept of the "next big thing" is increasingly outdated. "People are becoming more aesthetically independent," he says. "They're looking for their own styles."
"....... arguing that many architects aren't interested in what building users want and instead are more interested in imposing their own future scenarios on people. Take Marks Barfield Architects' proposal for solving the housing crisis with a high-rise residential system called the SkyHouse, launched with much fanfare earlier this year. The architects first developed their ideas for the buildings, and then asked market researchers to identify who might want to live there. This is the wrong way to go about doing things, Raymond argues: "They were assuming their design was right and just needed tweaking," he says. "There is an arrogance [among architects] that we found quite surprising." Instead, Raymond urges architects to "actually live with, work with and track the community they are building for so they can get a realistic idea of usage, as in how, who, and most importantly why".
Marks Barfield might reply by citing their London Eye - a structure that, critics argued, wasn't needed, couldn't be built and would ruin the skyline. Yet this unlikely structure has started a trend and cities around the world - including Singapore, Shanghai and Las Vegas - are now racing to build their own giant Ferris wheels. Or did the trendspotters see that one coming too?"
On the same topic I am currently reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson - facinating glimpse into the near future - good story as well.
bots - right on. if architects in the u.s. give the people what they want (the results of preliminary market research), we'll all be drawing plans for faux-tudor builder houses. key is showing people what they don't know they want.
it seems that , this is what the fetish-object (e.g. ipod, crossfire, razr) designers are doing as well, despite what mr. heath says.
the carebears r dope
built blobs
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -Oscar Wilde
Touche', Mr. Wilde.
..wait, blobs are cool? I gotta start designing me some of them.
people really need to let go of blobs....I know a lot have them in their portfolios...sorry ;-)
REAL fabrication - prefab particularly, not custum CNC'd ribs with shiny metal around them, but real solutions that save money and provide better quality
GREEN - more passive/active solar, better understanding of products, more demand
STYLE - it will move more towards a stylized modernism, but with more tactile/warm qualities
well if we don't do sustainable design,
lets do caves:)
It was FLW that said that if a roof doesn't leak he wasn't trying hard enough to do something new. It was said as he was telling the president of the Johnson Wax Company to put a trashcan on his desk to catch the water leaking from Wright's "lilly pad" and skylight roof.
Hi
trace you mention "Real-Green-Style" please let me add my resoning;
REAL fabrication - innovation and new jobs, CNC as any other manufactoring bringing the CAD into production as any other design tool as an easyer entrance to the digital oppotunity.
GREEN - develobing new but less energy comsuming materials by cutting the number of production lines. Various types of sheet material being worked in a low energy comsuming yet simple direct-link production focusing on one-off that now will be an option while production focus on the digital develobment.
STYLE - Style will follow fabrication. When a more flexible manufactoring are avaible a new architecture will grow, with even further develobment away from the old manufactoring and the multible assembly lines are replaced with more clever manufactoring and working ,both production and comsuming will profit , the one-off aproach will spark a need for more advanced technikes and new jobs will show.
isn't anybody here interested in form? just wondering...
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