Tag Archives: architecture
This is how I’ll remember it
NOTIFBUTWHEN #2: January 2009
Good bye Mr McGoohan
Someone gave me The Prisoner TV series DVD box set long ago. Had no idea what to expect but was totally absorbed once I started watching. This was great TV. Obvious the care and thought that went into every aspect, from the dialog to the things hanging on the walls. Sadly #6 just passed away.
Metropolis Mag’s “Capturing Culture”
Short article in the latest Metropolis about Chronicle Books hiring a corporate anthropologist to help design new offices. It’s a quick read:
“[Her] thesis is that organizations have their own kind of invisible structure. In other words, what you see on the flowchart of a company isn’t necessarily how the work gets done,” Carabetta explains. Stephenson [...]
Vat Grown Home
Math and architecture go hand in hand. Scale, proportion and ratio turn into the shapes and spaces we inhabit. The orientation of your home to the sun, lots of math. The stretching & shrinking of the glass windows in your office building, loads of math. Even your stairs, the risers and treads calculated to best [...]
Design stills from Tati’s Playtime
Jacques Tati’s Playtime
is a wonderful movie; the setting, the color, the cinematography, the soundtrack, the fashion, everything, all wonderful. Sure there’s not much of a “traditional” plot, but this was the 60s, in Paris! Come on.
Googling around, you’ll find many articles & books
discussing (usually) the film’s architecture [...]
Visual Learning
Gong’s post on designcanchange.org reminded me of another project, Visualizing Density. It’s a book, it’s a website, it’s a non-profit. The website requires a registration to see everything. And what will you be seeing? From the book abstract:
[…] an illustrated manual on planning and designing for “good” density, and a catalog of more than 250 [...]
Is it even a meal?
I’ve watched Bourdain’s Decoding Ferran Adria a few times now; incredibly fascinating. What Adria is doing reminded me of a bit I once read from DeBono about vertical and lateral thinking:
Logic is the tool that is used to dig holes deeper and bigger, to make them altogether better holes. But if the hole is in [...]
Leopard, Interactive Cities and SRL
It’s been a slow hot summer and now it’s payback. Here’s your schedule for the week of August 7-13.
Interactive City Summit on the 7th & 8th.
ISEA2006 from the 7th until the 13th.
Survival Research Labs on the evening of the 11th.
WWDC06 from the 7th until the 11th.
Going to go? Let [...]
Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects