Orhan Ayyüce
kicked off October with a paean/visit to Jay McCafferty and his Hollister Ranch Studio, designed by Coy Howard.
Plus, "To learn more about the JSI, its history, and its mission" Katherine Guimapang spoke with Woodbury University's Julius Shulman Distinguished Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the JSI, Barbara Bestor. Orhan took the opportunity to share a photo of "his highness showing me his first camera in architecture."
An team made up of the eponymous architectural practice of Asif Khan, Sir David Adjaye OBE, Mariam Kamara, and Theaster Gates was selected as the winning group in a competition to redesign Liverpool’s Canning Dock. randomised loves "the poster, am really looking forward to see what they come up with...might be tricky keeping a clear direction with four captains on board(!)"
Los Angeles' LGBTQ community got some much-needed senior housing thanks to a new project from the Ariadne Getty Foundation and KFA. citizen commented "Nice project, at least from photos. (Plans and sections would be nice, too.) KFA does some excellent work."
Urbanize LA revealed that the Eric Owen Moss Architects-designed (W)RAPPER office tower has topped out. archanonymus got in the last word "I've always loved the column-free exoskeleton structural concept, but the specifics of it here are horrendous...Does every exo-structure column-free building have to become an ultra-efficient cross-braced SOM box? No. But show some fucking discipline with the structural expression."
OMA's first office development in Japan is now complete. It reminds Will Galloway "of the now demolished Hanae Mori building by Tange in Omotesando (Tokyo). Or the Sogetsu Kaikan, also in Tokyo, by Tange (with the insanely cool interior by Osamu Noguchi)."
Grafton Architects won this year’s Stirling Prize for Town House, a multipurpose academic and arts space for Kingston University London). Gary Garvin approved
"the building is a series of openings and partial grids that revolve around the building in unpredictable ways. I like it. At night, the building becomes a kind of beacon for the surrounding area that lifts and promotes the activities and people inside." Yet also wondered "If it works as planned, it will come alive with people and activity...But will students hang out on the decks all seasons in London? Will that performance space be used?"
Niall Patrick Walsh noted that "While the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on the architect’s traditional workflows and responsibilities remain unclear" there are many examples of "architects embracing AI, machine learning, and software as platforms upon which to exercise their creative skills" and even, related openings on the Archinect job board at an LA-based "real estate generative design company".
For their part, when it comes to the question of "Will a robot take my job" midlander is optimistic "on the whole I think it's something to look forward to, if it can really automate things like code-check and optimizing the parts of design that can be optimized (which is a very limited range of spaces - less than many people developing these tools recognize!) much of the labor of young architects on things like toilet rooms layouts and information organization will be totally obviated...probably half of architects work in the future will be checking the AI and overseeing the appropriate selection of models and algorithms for a given project."
According to the October economic report released by the American Institute of Architects demand for architectural design services grew for the ninth consecutive month. The monthly Architecture Billings Index (ABI) remained at an elevated, positive score of 54.3, softening only slightly from September’s score of 56.6.
R.I.P., Brutalist icon and former RIBA president Owen Luder. We also lost New York architect Alan Lapidus, who once described Donald Trump as "the most honorable developer I’ve ever worked with."
Branch House in Montecito, CA by TOLO Architecture and Cork Trees House in Braga, Portugal by Trama Arquitetos are just two of the latest top images (in no particular order) from the Archinect Pinterest board Bathroom Spaces.
Back in October, Vlad Olvera Esteves was working on an ADU somewhere in Los Angeles.
Lance Collins hyped 'Not Now, But Right Now' an exhibition featuring "30+ SoCalNOMA members, Legacy Black architects in Los Angeles, projects from student members from local architecture schools" et al. The exhibition will be on display from December 2nd through the 17th with the gallery open to the public on Wednesday to Sundays.
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Arizona State University professor Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson is President Biden’s nominee for chair of the National Endowment for the Arts.
On September 11, 2021, the Board of Trustees of Woodbury University voted to consolidate the operations of the institution's San Diego campus into its main campus in Burbank.
Trapolin-Peer Architects of New Orleans will soon begin a renovation, restoration and expansion of Richardson Memorial Hall, the 113-year-old building that houses the Tulane School of Architecture.
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Wood Guy asked, "Porches, decks, windows, doors, courtyards--what's your favorite (or least favorite) connection between indoors and outdoors?" gwharton offered up a custom home project they "did a bunch of years ago, where we had an indoor pool and hot tub area the owner wanted to be able to open up completely to the outside in parts or in whole depending on the weather. So we put in two sets of sliding/folding doors which recess into pockets allow the three spaces (pool, spa, patio) to be recombined in multiple ways from in to out."
RJ87 has "always felt like the Scandinavian countries & the Japanese do the best job of transitioning. I've always loved when they eliminate (or at the very least heavily minimize) the perimeter frame around glass boundaries by slipping the pane past the plane it intersects."
Drew Hutcheson had a rant / suggestion for the profession / Capital A Architecture "Be like every other profession out there, FOR REAL. You're not that special or mysterious, no one cares...Y'alls shoestring budgets can either hire or they can't." Though some didn’t get Drew’s gripe, msparchitect countered with the transparency of "Big Law & Corporate Finance".
square. too gets "the complaint ‘compensation commensurate with experience’ is bullshit, just be clear and list a salary range. the ambiguity only helps one side." One possible solution is to move to Colorado, as SlammingMiruvor "As of January 1st of this year it's Colorado State Law that an employer must disclose pay ranges/rates and benefits in job listings. So far what I've seen they just mirror the AIA Compensation Survey results for the listed title, but it's a step in the right direction."
Finally, kapawpav was looking for recommendations on "books or writings on architecture that have stuck with you and changed the way you think? You can also include podcasts". Non Sequitur jumped in with a list of 6. archanonymous loves their "compilations of Michael Sorkin and Ada Louise Huxtable's criticism...In the same vein, the Lebbeus Woods blog is amazing." gwharton suggested "The Architecture of Happiness, by Alain de Botton. A magnificent book about the nuance of architectural impact on the human psyche by a non-architect. Brilliant and insightful."
Over at Failed Architecture, Joshua McWhirter analyzed various forms of pandemic era adaptive reuse arguing
"If the pandemic has offered glimpses of architecture emptied of human activity, it has also invited some to project new visions of how to adapt and reuse the built environment in radically different ways...Adaptive reuse, if grounded in the full social and material histories of existing sites and structures — and the social and political forces which have shaped them — could very well become a model of spatial practice that breaks these impasses. But there must also be an adaptive refusal to always fall back on the common architectural habit of building".
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