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Meanwhile eric chavkin suggested that "This skate board house has more to do with physio-culture like some experimental soviet projects ie the slanted floors of 'the house of dreams', an architectural experiment to study effects on dreaming. I like the anti-gravity aspects and it reminds me of the space station interior in Kubrick 2001 Space Odyssey it expresses the anti-gravity ideal of early modernism.
In a feature entitled Architecture and Design Graduates – How to Secure Your First Position, James Long/Ellicott Long provides "some useful guidance on how to maximise your chances of success in securing that initial role and draws on examples" that he has experienced both in the UK... View full entry
Lian Chikako Chang thinks that "It's worth it for the image of the jumping Ai Weiwei alone!" and must really mean it since she posted twice. However, jcr considers the image from the zine's front "cover is the epitome of bad taste. You are disgusting."
We're excited to announce the release of the first issue in the Archinect Zine! This is a collaboration between Archinect and our friend Christian Chaudhari's publishing initiative Friction House and features "The most absurd bits of Chinese culture, art news and dissident activism directly... View full entry
starrchitect relates a story about an acquaintance who "spent three years working in Petey's office, but when the interviewer looked at her resume, he discounted the three years as not being real office experience." Hawkin like others thinks the story doesn't add up writing "I think this post is fake/trolling." However elinor thinks "i believe it. architecture is rife with factions, and so many architects will use any excuse they can get to put down another."
For Archinect's latest Working out of the Box feature we interview Igor Siddiqui, Architect-turned-Product Designer. Describing his current practice he writes "At this moment, in both practice and teaching, my work primarily considers the contemporary interior as a framework for encounters... View full entry
Brazilian real estate developer Gafisa decided to ask people directly, what they want in their new apartments? Launched last week, the Edifício Colaborativo (Collaborative Building) initiative transformed the company’s fan page on Facebook in a crowdsourcing platform, intended to harvest innovative ideas for a new building. As Fred Scharmen
said "Can't follow the portugese, but those are some awesome images!"
Archinect featured two new Op-Eds this week. The first entitled The Neglected Public Bathroom is by Adrian Coleman a graduate architecture student at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning. Directed by Professors Galia Solomonoff, Liam Gillick, and Nathan... View full entry
Bryan explores the differences between the entries by MASS Design Group and Formlessfinder "The good news is that underpinning these two manifestations of architectural ambition is a singular hopefulness. The differences arise when these teams attempt to connect their own aspirations for an architecture capable of making an impact with more specific thoughts about where that impact is most likely to happen, why it needs to happen, and how it might be best accomplished."
Bryan Boyer catches up with Formlessfinder, winner of the Peoples' Choice Award, to talk about the how and the why of innovative architecture. He writes "Archinect is excited to begin this experiment in extending the contribution of the PS1 YAP competition: more ideas, more discourse, more... View full entry
Inhabitat was on the scene to bring us exclusive photos of the new High Line Park extension, Section 2. However the article caused one of Archinect's resident landscape architects, Barry Lehrman to note "I'm getting tired of all the folks (cough.. architects... cough) who only credit DS+R for the Highline - DS+R maybe, just maybe deserved 20% of the credit for the design, with Field Operations responsible for at least 80% of what you see..."
We featured the Slipstream Pavilion located at Pennsylvania State University, designed by PSU DigiFAB. The pavillion is an exploration of spatial turbulence and is inspired by the drawings of Lebbeus Woods and Leonardo Da Vinci. Member esfk offers the following critique of the project "turbulence... View full entry
On an old thread about saving a series of Walter Gropius buildings from the chopping block in Chicago, trendzetter notifies us that Northwestern University is gearing up to tear down the old Prentice Women's Hospital, designed by Bertrand Goldberg.
News Orhan Ayyüce presented ARCHITECTURE JURY, A Factual and Fictional Manual. In it Orhan subjectively stereotypes "the people who sit in front of the presentations and say 'wise' things about student projects. I hope this will help spectators and students to put a person... View full entry
Fred Scharmen in a new Op-Ed entitled "Sticks and Stones; Ai Weiwei and the Uses of Architecture", offers his opinion about whether or not media should "protest the treatment of Ai Weiwei by ceasing promotion of all new architectural work in China? Should architects refuse to take on new work in China? Should we continue to support the work of architects and artists in China, but only with a disclaimer?"
Ann Lui in a new feature writes "LEED turns a blind eye to worker safety" and argues that if LEED is all about building better communities, in the future it should also account for the "Sustainability of Workers' Rights".Fred Scharmen in a new Op-Ed entitled "Sticks and Stones; Ai Weiwei and the... View full entry
Meanwhile, Steven. "would like to learn more about applied math in architecture. Although I am not much a fan of it, how does parametric design work? " Jump's answer is "statics. thats it for math, and not much of it. simultaneous equations is about as hard as it gets.from what i see at my uni if you are into parametric stuff it is more about programming, though you can get pretty far just with grasshopper and rhino. "
In the latest edition to the In Focus series of features we talk to German photo artist Josef Schulz. We asked him How do you feel about seeing your photographs on blogs and websites?" He answered I am okay with my work appearing in blogs, as long as they are rather non-commercial and... View full entry
News This summer the designers of the Union Street Urban Orchard will return to 100 Union Street, Southwark to transform a derelict site into the Urban Physic Garden, a pop-up community built garden celebrating medicinal plants which will host an on-site cafe and summer festival of events... View full entry
News In our latest In Focus we talk to English photographer Tim Pike. To our question What is your goal when capturing buildings in photographs? Tom responded "That would vary. If it is entirely at my discretion, I tend to want to almost 'deconstruct' the building to an essence that is summed up... View full entry
News Orhan Ayyüce visited the semi private Central Park at Playa Vista by Michael Maltzan Architects. In the latest Working out of the Box: we interview Logan Amont who at one point worked in Ahmedabad as an assistant to Balkrishna Doshi, but now works with a master gardener named... View full entry
NewsPlease join Archinect for drinks and socializing next Friday, April 29th, in New York City, at the Samsung Experience space in the Time Warner Building, for a celebration of the launch of Archinect v3.0, and a very special announcement of an exciting new alliance formed byArchinect, Designer... View full entry
News Archinect 3.0 launches. Thanks to all the hard work by Paul, Alex and Theo! Report bugs, and discuss new version here. Coinciding with the 3.0 launch was a raft of new features. These included: 5 (student) Projects: by Alexander Maymind 5 (student) Projects is a group of projects... View full entry
News Sky1, reports back from day two of the University of Toronto's Out of Water conference. The conference prompted sky1 to write It seems the gap between academia and real-world development even today in the world of integrated design, is unbridgeable. While some extremely intelligent people... View full entry
