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.

PRINT MATTERs 001

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

competition open to students

if you are interested please press this link

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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ROCA Gallery

Former year one students help Pernilla Orhstedt create this sumptous backdrop for a catwalk show at the ROCA Gallery during London Fashion Week. This piece and other artifacts are currently on show and it is well worth a trip as the gallery was designed by Zaha Hadid.

designed by Pernilla Ohrstedt

designed by Zaha Hadid Architects

volunteering to make built project

Is any body out there interested in making an exciting installation for fashion week/ design week. It is an installation for Antipodium's Catwalk  that will subsequently be exhibited at Roca Gallery for design week (the one by Zaha Hadid in imperial wharf)

The piece is quite ambitious, a refracting/ magnifying skin that forms the backdrop of the show and eventually turns into a part of the collection.  It is made up of many small pieces and we could really use from some students with nimble fingers.

We will mainly need help from the 3rd to the 10th and will be assembling in a workshop in Hackney Central.

Let me know if you can think of anyone who might be interested. 

Haus Rucker

Last chance to see this exhibition as it ends this Saturday the 01.09.12 at WORK

This was the end of year review by the Architectural Journal [AJ] for Greenwich University

el croquis - great offer and chance to start digital library

This publication started of as a student magazine. It features the works of many well known architects and the joy of the issues is that has drawings,models and photographs of built works. click here for link

from the Observer 18.03.12

Don't let children lose sight of the pleasure principle

As Plan B made clear at TEDx, stories should be an essential part of inspiring young people

• Frank Cottrell Boyce
• The Observer, Sunday 18 March 2012
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Read a story at the right age and it will never leave you, says novelist Neil Gaiman. Photograph: Jill Mead

Every writer who visits a school gets asked this question: where do ideas come from? The standard response is to quote Douglas Adams ("Ideas R Us in Swindon"), but I feel uncomfortable fobbing off children with one-liners.

A newly qualified teacher asked me to visit his class. I said: "OK, but I don't do workshops or worksheets or anything. I believe in reading for pleasure." Fine, he said, then he introduced me to his class thus: "We're going to use our listening skills (he touched his ears) to pick out Frank's wow words and his connectors." Great. Can't wait.

If you've been made to list the wow words and connectors in a story, it will never haunt you. At last week's TEDx/Observer ideas conference, at which I spoke, the talk by Ben Drew, aka Plan B, dedicated to inspiring kids, was terrific. If, when we give our children a story or a picture, we ask for some meaningless written exercise in return, we are making one of the most ancient forms of giving ("Listen, I'll tell you a story") as transactional as Ideas R Us.

I think pleasure is a form of attention. If you can take pleasure in something – an idea, an activity – then your brain will happily entertain it for years without aim or objective. It's therefore a particularly open form of thinking that allows you to surprise yourself and the rest of humanity. If you look at Darwin's account of the Beagle voyage, for instance, it's a completely carefree book. It's mostly an account of his adventures – watching volcanos erupt, being caught in an earthquake.

His days on Galapagos are some of the most important in the history of ideas, but the most vivid moment in this account is his description of repeatedly lobbing a marine lizard into the sea and watching it swim back. It's like a paragraph from Just William.

The thing about pleasure is that it can seem aimless until it's ready to deliver. Yet, thanks to the cult of testing, we are constantly chivvying our children to hand stuff in, to "feed back". We encourage them to be focused and driven. There's a time and a place for being focused and driven. The time is Saturday night. The place is X Factor.

The cult of testing has its roots in that great modern superstition: competition. Competition might sharpen the knife, but it will never invent the knife. The writer Neil Gaiman said: "Stories that you read when you're the right age never quite leave you... if they touch you, they will haunt the places in your mind that you rarely visit."

Clearly there's a place for testing but there also has to be a place for giving – for sharing – those things that are great and amazing without asking for anything back. We have no idea what their future holds. How can we – tethered to the present – possibly know what their aims and objectives should be?

• © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.

Bulletin for 20.03.12

Dear all doing ARCT 1049, please look at moodle for instructions for your submission. In any case all are to be there with their portfolio work and some thoughts on the audit at 1000 in the South Studio.

Bulletin

Dear all please look at your moodle mail re HART 1004.Thanks.

Hans Hollein jewellery shop

 images of the Schullin 1 jewellery shop from Hans Hollein

 also here in Wikipedia

Ernesto Neto

on Wikipedia
images from designboom

Daniel Libeskind in Las Vegas

from Yatzer

William Wegman

William Wegman is an artist .

Below is one of his videos starring Weimeraners

This is his blog

Bart Prince

Please take a look at the work of Bart Prince. The images are from Dornob .

A video of Bart Prince talking about the use of model making in the design process from Dwell magazine .

here is a link to his office .

Song Dong - Waste Not

on at the Barbican - thanks to Shona Illingworth for bringing this to our attention.