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Lebbeus Woods-Fantastic drawings! http://www.coldbac.../lebbeuswoods.html
google his name for more stuff.
Louis I Kahn- go rent the movie "My Architect", an interesting story with some really nice shots of some of his buildings.
Anybody else have any recommendations?
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An attempt to create an alternative to urban sprawl:
http://www.arcosan.../project/main.html
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you might appreciate the paintings of this artist. From what i've read he started going exploring abandoned places, taking pictures, and once home painted. Really beautiful!
http://www.andreachiesi.com/
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Posted by shelise
you might appreciate the paintings of this artist. From what i've read he started going exploring abandoned places, taking pictures, and once home painted. Really beautiful!
http://www.andreachiesi.com/
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Wow, that is some really nice stuff. did you go see any of his showings in person?
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Posted by xrahy
Wow, that is some really nice stuff. did you go see any of his showings in person?
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no, not yet, but i'm willing to, i'm waiting for him to have an art show in Milan. I wish i had the money to buy one of his paintings!
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Superstudio
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=51
Archigram
http://www.archigram.net/projects_pages/walking_city.html
Tatlin/Soviet Constructivist Architecture
http://www.kmtspace.com/kmt/tatlin-arch.htm
Pottsdam Einstein Tower (Eric Mendelsohn)
http://www.aidan.co.uk/photo5004.htm
The Cosmopolis of the Future (Harry M. Petit)
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/large/1135.HTM
Italian Futurist Architecture (Saint'Elia et al)
http://www.rebel.net/~futurist/arch_c1.htm
And now... stuff that's actually getting built/been built:
CCTV Headquarter,s China OMA/Rem Koolhaas
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/
Selfridge's Department Store, Manchester England Future Systems Architecture
http://www.visualstore.com/index.php/channel/10/id/7114
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Great links oh-ten, thanks. I especially like the Einstein Tower.
The http://www.kmtspac...mt/tatlin-arch.htm reminds me of the new Marine Corps Museum at Quantico--
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glad you liked them... I'll come up with more as they come to me
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i'm in love with this figure:
the name in italian is Tetraelica. This one in the picture has been designed by Arata Isozaki and it's made in titanium.
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I know I wil be in the minority probably but I think to many of our big time architect place way to much emphasis on "form" over function. Their way to concerned with creating another monument unto themselves that function becomes an after thoughy. Do the buildings work for the intended purpose?,. probably yes, could something have been designed that would have functioned at way less cost, use of way less resources, perhaps even been better for the environment, MANY times most definitely. I'm not professing everything has to be a plain box, but look at many of the older buildings, they had little wasted spaces, were constructable at a reasonable cost and the beauty was created in the details, not wierd odd shapes and soaring wasted spaces of open atriums etc...Just my two cents!
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Posted by Arch-Image
I know I wil be in the minority probably but I think to many of our big time architect place way to much emphasis on "form" over function. Their way to concerned with creating another monument unto themselves that function becomes an after thoughy. Do the buildings work for the intended purpose?,. probably yes, could something have been designed that would have functioned at way less cost, use of way less resources, perhaps even been better for the environment, MANY times most definitely. I'm not professing everything has to be a plain box, but look at many of the older buildings, they had little wasted spaces, were constructable at a reasonable cost and the beauty was created in the details, not wierd odd shapes and soaring wasted spaces of open atriums etc...Just my two cents!
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I believe you can do both, a building need not be a box to be interesting and functional. While i am a big fan of form (what can i say, more photogenic), Function is key to a buildings long term success. Places like the Guggenheims in New York and Bilbao (two generations of architectural extravagance) didn't work inside, the forms that were/are radical for their time would be irrelevant.
While there is a place for Libinskind or Gehry frilly designs, there is also a need and a demand for more normal buildings, that are not unattractive, but that remember function is their first purpose.
Two examples of this that i can think of in buildings that will never win awards for design, but are solid in both form and function are located at the same corner no less are the new Canada Life Tower at 180 Queen St W in Toronto (Far Left in the rendering, i can't find a picture picture, but the actual complete building is virtually identical to the rendering)
and, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Opera House kitty corner across Queen and University (again all i could find was a rendering)
Its definitely not the most stunning exterior architecture, but it is meant to function for opera and Ballet, and hopefully it does that (not likely to be there anytime soon to find out).
"the ghosts of old buildings are haunting parking lots
in the city of good neighbors that history forgot"
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