mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 22 2007 | travel, design, architecture, spain, art
A review of the impact of the Guggenheim museum on the development of the city of Bilbao.
Quoted: A declining industrial city turned to Frank Gehry to deliver some titanium-clad salvation. It got what it wished for.
ShareViewed: 20 Times- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 30 2006 | architecture, design, google, office
Quoted: Google’s new headquarters balances its utopian desire for transparency with its very real need for privacy.
ShareViewed: 14 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 21 2006 | architecture, design
Quoted: Since February 2003 Josh Rubin's Cool Hunting has been a daily update on stuff from the intersection of design, culture and technology. Josh started the site as a way to catalog things that inspire him in his practice as a designer and strategist. Today Cool Hunting has grown beyond a personal reference tool-- designers, consumers and marketers from around the world visit every day to get their dose.
ShareViewed: 29 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2005 | architecture, books, Design
Brand (of Whole Earth fame) shows how buildings evolve over time. He shows how low-road architecture can fill a niche by allowing it's users to adapt their buildings to their changing needs. Brand was a big fan of Building 20 on the MIT campus for this reason. Now slated for demolition, this temporary building served a community of users for over 50 years.
Quoted: Amazon.com: How Buildings Learn : What Happens After They're Built: Books: Stewart Brand by Stewart Brand
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 28 2005 | architecture, books, Design
This book is a wonderful collection of design elements for architecture. Each pattern dissects a basic architectural element ranging from a metropolitan plan down to the design of the flow through an individual home. Each pattern is placed in the context of a problem or activity, and shows how that particular solution is realized via some architectural device.
For example, the pattern for Levels of Intimacy describes the problem that each house must accommodate different levels of familiarity and intimacy. We need spaces in our home to allow guests to enter and yet not be admitted to our most personal spaces. The design of a home must therefore allow for different levels of intimacy begining with the least intimate/more formal at the home entryway, and becoming more casual and intimate as you proceeded into family living, eating, and sleeping spaces.
This book also influenced software designers to produce analagous collections of design patterns for the software design field.
Quoted: Amazon.com: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series): Books: Christopher Alexander,Sara Ishikawa,Murray Silverstein by Christopher Alexander,Sara Ishikawa,Murray Silverstein
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