Lebbeus Woods

Below is an image of the Solohouse by Lebbeus Woods.

Here is his wikipedia entry.

Sadly he died Tuesday in his sleep and he will be sorely missed. He was an architect that was best known for his exqusite drawings and polemical thinking. Please take a look at the commentary by Geoff Manaugh from BLDGBLOG.

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On the 23.10.12 Simon Herron gave a talk on books and magazines.These are some of the books that were discussed.

01. Towards a new architecture by Le Corbusier
02. Leque an architectural enigma by Phillipe Duboy
03. The League of Nations, Architectural Competitions
04.Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
04. The Decorative Art of Today by Le Corbusier
05. Archigram Magazin 04
06. Architectural Design Magazine February 1967
07. Architectural Design Magazine September 1968
08. Architectural Design Magazine November 1970
09. Architectural Design Magazine March 1970
10. Architecture 2000 predictions and methods
11. This is Tomorrow exhibition catalogue 1956
12. Living Arts magazine
13. Archigram Magazin 09

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Xerox David Green

courtesy of the Archigram Archive

Archigram: Inflatable suit / Suitaloon

ALSO

check out the Archigram archive

http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/

Ben Nicholson Interview and other Links

Excerpt from interview. Ben Nicholson recounting his student days:

"Libeskind mentioned I should look at the drawings of Jean-Jacques LeQueu and all of the French Revolution-era architects. I got the book and realized this does look interesting! I started producing - producing work with an ecstatic addiction. I made this project that was sited at Trafalgar Square with these creatures and animals, which included a text about these buildings that were in the shape of creatures, such as the consumption bird, the palindromic urinator"

 Left: Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Section perpendiculaire d'un souterrain de la maison gothique
Right: Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Elevation of the tomb of Porsenna, king of Etruria, known as the Tuscan Labyrinth, 1792


I wanted to go to Paris to investigate these LeQueu drawings closer. Once again a girlfriend - I told her I want to see these drawings, and she said, "Well go and see them," and I say, "I don't have any money." She was traveling there the next day by airplane and said, "Why don't you come with me and go on your bicycle." I said, "Okay I'll race you." This is at 9 o'clock at night after a bottle of wine and literarily I ran downstairs got on my bicycle and I just started cycling to Paris. And this bicycle was an old five-speed or something. It wasn't even a ten-speed - it was a trash bike. I was fit at that time - I mean domestic fit, I didn't exercise or anything. I got on to the five o'clock ferry from Dover to Calais, got to the other side and just started cycling. When I was overcome with exhaustion I'd pull over to the side sleep in a ditch, eat a bar of chocolate, and get on the bike. [Laughs] Anyway, I arrived at 3 o' clock in the morning the next day, like 32 hours riding or something, solid cycling. In the middle of the ride - in the middle of the evening, a beautiful evening, the pedal freezes up, and I had no tools or anything. [Laughs] So I limped into this farmyard and this farmer - just as in America, they can fix anything. He took the pedal off and replaced it with a pedal from his daughter's tricycle. [Laughs] And I say, 'Thanks buddy I'm out of here!'"

here is link to whole interview:

http://archinect.com/features/article/14916/ben-nicholson-s-faith-based-initiative

His Labyrinth project where he draws every possible Labyrinth


image courtesy of 'Design boom'

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/4060/venice-architecture-biennale-08-ben-nicholson.html

What you can do with an A4 scanner

FULL BODY SCAN: Image and text courtesy of the 'New Aesthetic' Blog. 

“Sariwat” by Maitha Demithan, formed from hundreds of images captured by a flatbed A4 scanner, aka scanography. As seen in the exhibition Tessellation Make Up at Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul.

http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/page/2

Reyner Banham - Loves Los Angeles

Reyner Banham was an architectural critic and prolific writer on design click on the link from wikipedia.

  

Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky is a russian architect famous for his imaginary projects, sculptures and installations.He currently has an installation at the Calvet 22 Gallery in Shoreditch.

Here is a review of the current exhibition by Rowan Moore for The Guardian.

Another article in Metropolis.

Life-size model of the human body

White's Physiological Manikin, 1886

James T. White & Co.

This life-sized fold-out model of the human body was marketed for at least 20 years. The manikin's flaps correspond to lecture topics such as the circulatory system, the brain and nervous system, the skeleton and muscles, venereal disease and the physiology of reproduction (male and female), first aid, and the dangers of corseting (visible in the far right).

Another view of the same foldout from The Science Museum London.

Kaplan Krueger

This is work by Kaplan Krueger published in Pamphlet 14. A copy of which is available in the studio for perusal.

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