sfmoma:

Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries. Featured here is the 12th page from a sketchbook he worked on in NYC from 1995-1998.

Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook (30 July 1995, NYC - 23 May 1998, NYC), 1995; Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods (2001.153 A-Y)

By far one of the most impressive things i have seen on the internet lately, maybe ever. Helps that I spent a fair amount of time in Tokyo recently, and there is a mist of nostalgia hanging around everything about the city 

Go check out the interactive website, i just wish longer recordings were possible.

from : CORE 77

“The 10 year celebration theme for Roppongi Hills is “LOVE TOKYO.” We will be starting a movement here from Roppongi Hills to transform Tokyo into a more attractive and exciting “world-class city.” We are opening a 10th anniversary website in which users can experience 3D projection mapping on a miniature model of the city of Tokyo at a 1:1000 scale. 
Participants can enjoy various motifs of the city: “Futuristic City,” “Rock City,” and a traditional Japanese “Beauty of Nature” motif by pressing the keys on a keyboard, as if playing the piano. Exploit the possibilities and make Tokyo more dynamic and exciting. 
Join us in a symphony with the entire city of Tokyo, and enjoy this completely new visual experience.


六本木ヒルズ10周年のテーマは「LOVE TOKYO」。
東京をもっと楽しく魅力的な”世界に誇る都市”にできるよう、ここ六本木ヒルズから、­たくさんのムーブメントを起こしていきます。
東京の街並みを再現した1：1000 サイズの都市模型。このミニチュアサイズの東京に、ユーザーが自由に3Dプロジェクシ­ョンマッピングを投影できる10周年記念WEBサイトがオープンしました。
未来都市。ロックシティ。日本古来の花鳥風月。参加者はPCのキーボードをタッチする­だけで、あたかもピアノを弾くように様々な都市のモチーフを演奏することができます。”

http://ryanpanos.tumblr.com/

Thesis presentation by Ryan at UBC. Congrats on finishing, and provoking a conversation, that impacts my own thesis topic

architectural-review:

Our next issue is a special on representation. This drawing by Smout Allen is a taste of what’s in store.

(via visicert)

everyone needs a little bit of inspiration and unexpectedness to make life seem special.. 

Should be thinking harder +/- 6000 words. #thesis #craft #research

Saucier + Perrotte chops up own project. Moves it from Waterloo to UBC. I should write headlines for architecture magazines. its amazing what climate does to a buildings appearance. 

zumthor:

Peter Zumthor 1986-2013:
Buildings and Projects

Release Date: July 2013 

My phone is a more competent graphic designer than i

this is what i was actually researching when i was led astray by my previous rant on architecture comments. short and sweet, but i find it refreshing/ interesting to see and older, established architecture firm working with pre-fab. it is still residential but its in manhattan, and it looks better than any trailer park ive ever seen/ liven in.  the video is a bit corporate and i dont doubt the developer was involved, however i am not so sure that is a negative. they dont speak about end-life or recycling the way Kieran Timberlake et. all have, nor thankfully is this an overly green-washed response. i would hope somewhere in this process though there is some sort of conversation going on in relation to lifecycle assessment. 

I’m not sure typical residential infill always requires in-depth architectural analysis. However, its comments like these that make it ever so clear why it becomes so easy to be cynical (sorry Ryan) about my beloved profession. Granted, archdaily (“slash” the internet in general) is hardly the best place to always find current, insightful, though-provoking commentary on architecture, but i would hope for better than this…

(minus the ever to insightful “cool” which by now we have all heard and im sure even used, though we know it is meaningless commentary)

aybige tek - really? how narrow a view of not only climates around the world, but architecture in general is this? also, i would not consider a “extension to the outdoors” in NYC always so welcome, have you smelled the city in the summer? 

norov - this could be read any numerous ways.

A; thinly veiled cynicism. *i wouldn’t be above it. 

B; assuming this came from someone other than a neighbour there is hardly any reference to context by the architect in the brief, its a town house in NY ok, maybe thats context. the architect may even have been attempting the opposite. “This project reinvents the typology of the urban townhouse on a typically narrow infill Manhattan plot.” explain yourself! 

C; a deeper read into context in terms of housing typology, proportioning, and material sensitivity. 

Sasha - oye! i suppose the simple answer could democracy? or simply imagination? artistic license? maybe its the architects view that in order to move architecture forward, one must break from the typical, instead of following what is already in place just because it is already there. investing themselves in researching a more appropriate way of doing things. while maybe a little inelegant i think the architect explains it well enough, as a response to the typical configuration of hiding private street front rooms behind curtains, the layering of the facade (stairs, bookshelves, screen) allow for light to still penetrate while opening up the interior of the loft to be understood.

finally, for reference the project is (simply) Urban Townhouse by GLUCK+ (formerly Peter Gluck and Partners) and the post is from the aforementioned archdaily. 

Options… #architecture #renderings #studiogeneric #work

#thesis #quotes #architecture #shop

I made this… #architecture #gvsu #work #shw

headandhaft:

“Work on two oak coffee tables, all the joinery is hand cut. Haunched mortice and tenons for the main frame. Mortice and tenons for the stretchers need to angle in towards the centre at 45 degrees so they had to be set through the legs at 45 degrees. its a faf, but the design is that all the four stretchers from each leg will meet in the middle in an asterix joint thing!…..”

Ah thesis

(via takeovertime)