This week, with the encroaching holiday craziness picking up steam, we're releasing a mini-version of Archinect Sessions to cap off the 2014 podcasting season. For this special XS session, Paul, Amelia, Donna and Ken make predictions for the world of architecture in 2015, and discuss our plans for the year's end. We'll return from the hiatus with a new episode airing on January 8th.
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Donna's tree set-up:
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Yes, that is my borrowed Alcoa tree in front of my ugly bay window that was put on my MidCentury Modern house in the 1980s. I'll replace it with a picture unit one of these days when I can afford a major house-wide window replacement!
Donna -- so did someone hack your phone ? That's okay -- I don't have a bay window or a tree, so you're winning !
Seriously, the aluminum tree gets big props (do we still say that ?) from MCMers and from the green movement too, I guess. Rock on !
You might want to put a warning on this post cause that tree almost gave me a seizure.
Plus, what's with the retrograde image of a Christmas tree!!! Sooo nostangic. But hey, at least you kept it real with aluminum. Kidding, of course.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that stuff!
Sorry, Thayer! I intentionally slowed it down so it would not be as seizure-inducing as this Jake and Dino Chapman piece of art, "What Christmas Looks Like When You're Dying"
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/15/jake-and-dinos-chapman-gif-what-christmas-looks-like-when-youre-dying
View with caution!
The amazing thing about that tree is it's so smartly and simply made. Wooden dowels with holes drilled in them, aluminum everything else. The "needles" aren't shiny plastic strips like contemporary trees, they're actual aluminum.
I like the chair on the left. I'd decorate it as a Christmas tree.
Non Sequitur, that's the original molded fiberglass Eames armchair my husband gave me as a congratulations gift when I became licensed. All architects should receive some fancy piece of furniture when they get licensed, IMO! Or, you know, a flask. Full of bourbon.
Merry Christmas. We had one of those trees growing up. I don't know how many times we used it. I do know that our teenage garage band used the color wheel during our version of Moonage Daydream and somehow the color discs melted. the music was that hot. 2015 predictions, more. not less of Vado Retro,
That's the best prediction I've heard so far! Cheers to 2015!
Very nice Donna.
I received a large bottle of single-malt scotch when I received my license. It did not last as long as an Eames chair would have.
my dad had one of those trees and lights. my siblings and i were not that respectful of mid-century memorabilia as children, and in my old age i kind of regret contributing to it's demise. oh well. time only works one way, and i have too much to do to be mired in regret.
re: Ken's prediction on climate change, perhaps he saw this news discussing "the Lima framework"?
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