Skin + Bones: An Interview with Brooke Hodge Shigeru Ban, Curtain Wall House, 1995. Shigeru Ban Architects, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan Photo © Hiroyuki Hirai Unfortunately, the groundbreaking exhibition “Skin and Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is now over. Thus, this post is dedicated to those who were not lucky enough (like me) to have had the opportunity to experience the visual discourse between fashion and architecture as developed by MOCA’s Curator of Architecture & Design, Brooke Hodge. Brooke graciously took a moment to talk to Fashion Projects about the relationship between these two disciplines and her inspirations in developing the exhibition. After reading this brief interview, head to FIT on April 18th to hear a panel discussion featuring Brooke Hodge, Patricia Mears (Deputy Director of the Museum at FIT and contributor to the Skin and Bones catalog) and others discuss fashion and architecture.
Time to Watch: Wireless OLED Color-Changing Wall Clock Time to Watch: Wireless OLED Color-Changing Wall Clock: [ Filed under More or in the Gadgets & Tech category ] Black, then white, then back to black again, this large light-sensitive wall clock shifts colors as day turns to dusk then dawn again- the Organic Light-Emitting Diodes display dark-colored numerals during daylight hours and light numbers into the night. Visually, it is almost like a vertical-hung, room-illuminating, wall-surfacel version of the vintage LED wrist watch. Welcome to DeZona! LE CORBUSIER: THE PICASSO OF PLANNING Le Corbusier was perhaps the greatest architect of the 20th century. He thought he could reshape mankind by creating a new form of city, yet he seldom practised what he preached, writes Jonathan Meades ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Winter 2008 Le Corbusier excelled in the visual and the plastic. He was a painter, sculptor, furniture designer and, above all, an architect of the highest order, perhaps the greatest of the 20th century, a colossus who in his prodigiously fecund invention and protean versatility was the peer of his friend Pablo Picasso. And there we might leave it.
myninjaplease -> FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S WAR ON THE BOX Frank Lloyd Wright once defied "anyone to name a single aspect of the best contemporary architecture that wasn’t done first by" him. He had a point, writes Emily Bobrow ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE When Frank Lloyd Wright was in his 80s, he had more architectural projects in the works than ever. He cut a vital, distinguished figure, with his silver mane, natty dress and a cane he often twirled. Often seen smoking and wearing a modified cowboy hat, he was arrogant, mischievous and also a genius. The Stylistic Evolution of the American Front Porch The physical development of the American front porch may be seen through the development of housing styles in our American architectural history. From the Georgian houses with minimal, if any, front porches to the Stick Style houses with their integral front porches, the front porch served different roles in the waves of styles that architecturally swept the country. By examining these roles that front porches played in a general survey of American housing styles, the evolution of the front porch in American architecture may be properly viewed.
PLAIN MODERN THE ARCHITECTURE OF BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS - (QUANTRILL) Princeton Architectural Press June 1, 2005 It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents the best of contemporary design thinking while retaining a distinctive regional sensibility. The Nova-Scotian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons fits neatly into this distinguished list, which includes Marlon Blackwell in the Ozarks, Rick Joy in the Southwest, and Miller/Hull in the Northwest. Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic.
L’espace est un luxe « souris de compactus L’espace est un luxe 16sept09 2009, jusqu’ici, a été une année riche en évènements au Musée suisse de l’appareil photographique, qui a célébré ses 30 ans en plus d’ouvrir deux étages de sa nouvelle exposition permanente (Aux origines de la photographie / Laterna Magica) et d’organiser un colloque d’un soir avec le soutien de Memoriav. 7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World Record-Setting Cities: 7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World Article by Urbanist, filed under 7 Wonders Series in the Travel category. You might find an urban wonder right around the corner – from the narrowest and most windy streets of the world (respectively) to the biggest building moving project and the most profound rich/poor divide on the planet. Someone has even put the world’s largest urban bat colony on the map. Here are seven profoundly strange recording-setting wonders of the modern world.
Why Lord Foster wants us to travel more In keeping with his profession Lord Foster is a remarkably footloose architect. The Pritzker laureate is a keen cyclist, an amateur pilot, travels a huge amount and recently designed an expo pavilion that could be taken apart and reassembled, thousands of miles away. So, perhaps it shouldn't surprise us to learn that the architect has just launched the 2014 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship. This prize of £6000 will go the student who suggests the best programme of international research on a topic related to the survival of our towns and cities.
Capturing Hong Kong’s Dizzying Vertical Density Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze is a French photographer who captures the dizzying heights and uncommon densities of Hong Kong. Inspired by “the geometry of the urban environment and the vivid lives it shelters,” Jacquet-Lagrèze has not only captured the verticality of Hong Kong’s built environment, but also compiled a new book, Vertical Horizon, “a photographic journey between the buildings of a relentlessly growing city.” See more of Jacquet-Lagrèze‘s images, and read an excerpt from Vertical Horizon, after the break. Zaha Hadid's sweeping design for Bee'ah's headquarters rises from the desert As sustainable waste management becomes an increasingly important issue on the global agenda, it’s of no surprise that the architecture that surrounds it is also receiving more attention. In Copenhagen construction steams ahead on BIG’s ambitious Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant, while over in the United Arab Emirates a new waste management project is in the works. Following an international competition in 2013, UAE environmental and waste management company Bee’ah, has enlisted the architectural might of Zaha Hadid to design an awe-inspiring 7,000 sq m headquarters in Sharjah that will help to realise the company’s admirable environmental goals.
Foster's Crossrail Place roof garden to open at Canary Wharf Tropical roof gardens and a leisure complex designed by Foster + Partners to sit above a new Crossrail station at Canary Wharf in London will open to the public tomorrow. The seven-storey structure is the first new building for Crossrail – London's new east-west rail link – to open, although trains will not run from the station for at least three years. Located in the heart of London's Canary Wharf financial hub on the North Dock, the station will be one of 40 that will serve the capital's new rail network, scheduled to open in 2018.