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  • Obama's Columns

    The challenge for Mr. Obama is to appeal to as broad a cross-section of American voters as possible. And as much as it might disappoint those of us who are fans of progressive modern design, the vast majority of Americans find the 'crumpled tin foil and 2-by-4' aesthetic of Gehry and the 'aggressive angularity' of much of Libeskind's work, to use ...
    Posted to Architecture by Warren R on August 29, 2008

  • pre-fab architecture

    Although not for everyone pre-fab offers a viable solution to the housing crisis. We need only look 50 years into the future to accept it's necessity.
    Posted to Architecture by david wayne osedach on August 15, 2008

  • Re: Pre-Fab Homes

    I have long imagined that adapting ''metal buildings'' now used for barns would fit this niche very well. Add insulation, wiring and plumbing, and an internal facade like sheet rock (or perhaps better) would make it habitable. Perhaps even movable or sliding interior walls that would allow the building to adapt to changing needs such as kids ...
    Posted to Architecture by dabrack on August 13, 2008

  • Re: Dulles is a terrible airport

    At the time Dulles Airport was designed, in the late 50's, there was no apparent need for security checks. The airport of out in the boonies and considered too big for its time. Air travel was still considered exciting, rather than an every day event. Ramps had not been invented yet. (Perhaps they were inspired by the mobile lounges designed by ...
    Posted to Architecture by fauxmarble on June 13, 2008

  • I like this

    but I dont think so .... http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
    Posted to Moneybox by steveballmer on June 4, 2008

  • Re: symmetry = beauty?

    MaryAnn: I personally appreciate the tension between symmetry and assymetry -- e.g. a wild forest scene outside a Palladian window, Frank Lloyd Wright's geometric box of a house at Fallingwater protruding over an asymmetrical brook. Except, that Falling Water is a paradigm of asymmetry in architecture. I think you are confusing asymmetry with ...
    Posted to Architecture by Germanicus on May 22, 2008

  • Re: A/Symmetry

    excellent post.seems 2 me that mankind's preference 4 symmetry in architecture is probably a reflection of the biological mechanism that recognizes ''facial symmetry''. as i understand it, it evolved as a marker of health and physical attractiveness...
    Posted to Architecture by KittiFonian on May 21, 2008

  • Pritzker

    Architecture almost always starts with the vision of one person, or one person working with a small group. The design may originate as a scribble on a napkin, or perhaps spring from a computer screen, but someone initiates and guides the process. That's why a Jean Nouvel building looks like a Jean Nouvel building despite the collaboration of ...
    Posted to Architecture by brosenyc on April 1, 2008

  • Don't Mistaken Your Eggs For Just Eggs

    Don't Mistaken Your Eggs For Just Eggs: Why some critics can't understand the Avant-garde This contribution by Slate's architecture critic presented some of the newest projects under construction by Herzog and De Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas amongst others, in the increasingly high profile cities of Abu Dhabi and Beijing with a ...
    Posted to Architecture by push on February 3, 2008

  • function in architecture

    ''The real question about new buildings should never be 'Are they cutting edge?' but 'Are they good?''' Amen to that. About Abu Dhabi. It is obscure by choice. Its oil reserves are many times those of co-/under-emirate, flashier Dubai. Keep watching Abu Dhabi.
    Posted to Architecture by jvanke on January 30, 2008
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