Archive for the 'Architecture' Category
An open letter to architects published by Pidgin, the official publication of the Princeton School of Architecture:
“…Do not get me wrong, architects. I like you as a person. I think you are nice, smell good most of the time, and I like your glasses. You have crazy hair, and if you are lucky, most of [...]
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It’s funny because it’s true. Excerpts:
The alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
You’re not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially during Structures lectures
You know what Superglue tastes like.
You celebrate space and observe your birthday
Coffee and Red Bull are tools, not treats.
You’ve slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
You fight with inanimate objects. [...]
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For those of you who are, or even just interested in, the field of design. Some excerpts:
“Stop Making CrapAnd that means that we have to stop making crap. It’s really as simple as that. We are suffocating, drowning, and poisoning ourselves with the stuff we produce, abrading, out-gassing, and seeping into our air, our water, [...]
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For the geek-architect in you…
…which is different from the architect-geek in you, the same way a vent stack is different from a stack vent (which is actually something the architect-geek in you might say).
If you’ve always wondered what the design was of those houses you see in those movies and TV shows that you watch, Mark Bennett is an artist whose work is basically [...]
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IAC HQ by Frank Gehry
The new InterActiveCorp (IAC) Headquarters is Frank Gehry’s first building in New York City. And, well, it’s definitely a Gehry.
A Daily Dose of Architecture has this to say about the IAC HQ,
The bottom, on the other hand, doesn’t fail due to forms or curves but from the way it meets the ground. Schools of architecture [...]
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