Ópera de Sidney - Sydney Opera House - Australia - Portal y Comunidades INCIARCO. Frank Lloyd Wright | The Re-Model. Photo by David Heald, © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New YorkModel of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Herbert Jacobs House #1, Madison, Wisc., 1936-37; developed by Situ Studio, Brooklyn. In “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward,” an exhibition currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum, the models of Wright’s designs are attracting as much attention as the exhibition itself.
Perhaps the most notable model is that of Wright’s Herbert Jacobs House #1 of 1936-37, the first of the architect’s pioneering open-plan, energy-efficient Usonian houses. The basswood model takes the house’s components — from its window frames to its innovative copper-piped radiant-heating system — and explodes them, so that they seem to hang in midair. This and five other models in the exhibition were designed and made by Situ Studio, a four-year-old Brooklyn multidisciplinary firm known for its cutting-edge approach to digital design and fabrication technologies.
Photograph by David Heald © The Solomon R. Sydney Opera House – original model « Syd Fish. Photo Journal: Long-Lost Model of Sydney Opera House Found and Rebuilt It was like a crystal palace … and it took on that sort of legend. A long-lost acrylic architectural model of the Sydney Opera House has been found and reconstructed, after languishing in storage crates for three decades.
The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald reported on the model’s re-assembly earlier this month. The world-famous icon was designed by Danish architect Jrn Utzon in the late 1950s. Construction began in 1959 and was completed in 1973, though Utzon resigned in 1966 after clashing with government officials over the cost and feasibility of the project. Following Utzon’s departure, model builder Bill Lambert (who died in 1988) was commissioned by the New South Wales state Department of Public Works to build a three-dimensional model of the building based on approximately 8,000 detailed architectural drawings. www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5108.html Like this: Like Loading... MAQUETAS: MORPHOSIS ARCHITECTS. Clásicos 1973/1993. California. USA « propuestas in_consultas. “Ganadores de numerosos premios y tema de exposiciones desde Tokio a Berlín, Los Ángeles a Nueva York, los arquitectos Thom Mayne y Michael Rotondi, de Morphosis, son líderes en el movimiento de vanguardia de la nueva arquitectura de California.
A través de su asociación SciArc (Southern California Institute for Architecture), del cual Mayne ha sido uno de los fundadores y Rotondi su actual director, ellos se han constituido en una fuerza conductora para la joven generación de arquitectos. Las obras de Morphosis han abarcado un amplio espectro de tipología edilicia, incluyendo casas unifamiliares y múltiples unidades habitacionales, servicios médicos y oficinas, restaurantes y locales de venta minorista. En todos los proyectos, la marca de calidad de su trabajo es siempre clara, frágil frescura para expresar su casi misteriosa destreza para convertir los materiales más comunes en superficies y detalles de sorprendente poder y gracia.
Texto de la contraportada del Libro Morphosis.