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Knots in Archtiecture (this is a banal way to present a topic, but...)

Kentique

Hello Everybody!

Help me out- I know theres a lot, but any information on architecture that is related to a knot? this can be anything from looks like a knot to started-with a knot idea but turned into something else thing- baisically anything architecture(or design overall) thats related to a knot.

Danke Danke!

 
Mar 5, 06 4:48 pm
garpike

Try Nox.

The Soft Office seems a bitty knotty.

Mar 5, 06 4:53 pm  · 
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vado retro
Mar 5, 06 5:45 pm  · 
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garpike


Ironically, this is a photo of Knott's Berry Farms.

Mar 5, 06 5:48 pm  · 
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Mar 5, 06 5:53 pm  · 
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vado retro

abra shouldnt you be gettin ready to head down to the oscars???


Mar 5, 06 6:10 pm  · 
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Kentique

hee hee hee

Mar 5, 06 7:23 pm  · 
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No more speed, I'm almost there; gotta keep cool now, gotta take care.
Last car to pass, here I go and the line of cars drove down real slow.
-abra on his way to scars

Mar 5, 06 7:29 pm  · 
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MysteryMan

Now I know how I'll kill some more time over here, I'll practice my knots.

I'm getting my wife to bring my Boy Scout Handbook to Luanda! Thanks for this topic!

Mar 6, 06 12:43 am  · 
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you should have a look at ARM´s National Museum of Australia,
design is based on a knot
link

Mar 6, 06 4:12 am  · 
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ARM
Mar 6, 06 4:16 am  · 
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garpike

That math site is pretty cool.

I tried to make a knot once from an impossible 2d surface. Not that complex, but fun to design.





Mar 6, 06 9:02 pm  · 
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vado retro

in honor of this thread, i wore a necktie today. thankfully, i didnt hang myself...

Mar 6, 06 10:26 pm  · 
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garpike
May Contain Knots
Mar 6, 06 10:28 pm  · 
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manamana

*overheard at a review, circa 2004*

"Do you really want to ask someone to live in a knot?"

Mar 6, 06 10:46 pm  · 
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Janosh

Keisler's Endless House was originally published accompanied by a sequence of knots (maybe in Architectural Review?)

Knots are a recent interest of the Institute for Figuring:
www.theiff.org/

Go buy Ashley's Book of Knots.

Mar 6, 06 11:08 pm  · 
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fudu

Check out Kenneth Frampton's 'Studies in Tectonic Culture.' He discusses knots and textile use in ancient nomadic architecture in the first chapter I believe.

Mar 7, 06 12:48 am  · 
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switters

mark c. taylor has a book about Knots and nots in architecture. its called nots

Mar 7, 06 2:31 pm  · 
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dia

Nice site Janosh.

Follow up jamesams advice re: arm. Also related, is van Berkel & Bos' Mobius house.

Mar 7, 06 3:02 pm  · 
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PsyArch


The Knot Garden. It was one of the first formal garden types, started around the time of Henry VIII.


Mar 7, 06 3:13 pm  · 
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psycho-mullet

I think Preston Scott Kohen (that might be spelled wrong) had some kind of Torus Klein Knot house (I don't know where' you'd find it if it exists). Actually now that I think about it in the back of Neil Denari's book Gyroscopic Horizons there's some kind of Torus/Klein action.

Mar 8, 06 4:23 am  · 
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