February 2010 Blog Posts (14)

Paraty Beach House Brasil

Studio MK27’s have completed this concrete beach house in Paraty, Brazil. Paraty House’s two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.…

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Added by Minimalist Design on February 26, 2010 at 12:23pm — No Comments

100226 Newsletter

NutshellMail

Many of us don’t have time to hang out online all day but need a simple way to stay connected to our online social lives, that's where NutshellMail comes handy. With this New application, now enabled for our… Continue

Added by MyarchN Team on February 26, 2010 at 12:04pm — No Comments

virtual design demonstration

http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/Second_Life_Case_NMC_EN.pdf

Second life illustrations or virtual designs might have a place in the field of Architecture. maybe it is already used, I just am not that familiar with it. It's been around for almost twenty years so I guess most everyone but me has seen it before. I just thought I would mention it, it is neat. My son is a…

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Added by Dr Robert E McGinnis on February 23, 2010 at 9:21pm — 2 Comments

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Added by Edi Gardner on February 23, 2010 at 12:55pm — 1 Comment

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York

February 12 - April 28, 2010

Since its opening in 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two… Continue

Added by Edi Gardner on February 23, 2010 at 12:51pm — No Comments

Laser Scans as Time Machines

(1865 photo by A.D. White from Cornell University public archive)

Some 15 years ago or so, an acquaintance spent 5 years of his life climbing up, sliding down, scraping his knees and scuttling over every visible inch of the Great Sphinx. He was painstakingly mapping the monument.…

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Added by Elizabeth on February 19, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Bronx Education Network

Project: United High Bridge by Zachary Aders, arquiteto São Paulo and Iris Wijn, urban designer, Amsterdam.

This entry won a Jury Selection in the 2009 AIA Emerging New York Architects competition. Our entry focused not on the High Bridge itself, but on the surrounding Bronx neighborhood, and how it functions as a social network. Residents have been… Continue

Added by Zachary Aders on February 18, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Clothing and Being

The passing of designer and l’enfant terrible, Alexander McQueen, recalls the interrelationship between fashion and architecture. To some, architecture reflects society and culture; to others, architecture is culture, architecture creates and reproduces society. To a degree, I feel that way about fashion—what we wear is not… Continue

Added by Elizabeth on February 11, 2010 at 11:44pm — 30 Comments

A Sampling of Pleasures at MyarchN….

I am delighted, amazed and invigorated by the creative people who gather here on this friendly network about architecture and related arts. Setting aside the growing socio-economic network patterns (and who knows where they will lead?) this trans-spatial “space” is also great fun.

There are so many gifted artists and architects on this site that I can only select a few at random who have enriched my life in one way or another. If you already know their work, it’s… Continue

Added by Elizabeth on February 11, 2010 at 5:09pm — 3 Comments

Bamboo

http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/bamboo.htm

Bamboo is widely available and should be considered more than it is.

Added by Dr Robert E McGinnis on February 11, 2010 at 12:06pm — 1 Comment

Regarding Peter Zumthor's Sain Benedict Chapel (Photos by Douglas Lima)

Regarding Peter Zumthor's Saint Benedict Chapel: I really can't relate to this. From outside it looks like a fodder silo of a farmhouse. No window except under the roof! The floor is about 6 meters in the air hanging within the tower, elevator feeling, prisoner atmosphere! Entrance glued on the side, not the least logics in regard to the access-place scheme so important for sacred layouts*. The whole concept shows the architectonically miserable "whatever crazy design: main thing it makes us… Continue

Added by Nold Egenter on February 6, 2010 at 7:21pm — 3 Comments

OLD DUTCH FRONTS, HOUSES, SHOPS, GRAND HOUSES, PALACES

In the 13 th century some of the firsts houses were build with bricks.

By the development of cities in the 11 th-12 th- and 13 th century, more and more houses were build out of bricks.

This has to do with the cities and theyre inhabitants became more riche, and off course wooden houses were practicaly defenceless against fire.

It happened that citycentres were total loss of fire outburst.

As I mentioned in the blog about Dutch villages, the Dutch conquered the…

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Added by Joop Koning on February 5, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Gustavo Manrique †

To the Myarchn Community:

With great sorrow I have to notify about Gustavo Manrique's passing on 7 October 2009. I learned about it through an E-Mail I received today from a common friend.

Gustavo was indeed a great friend, whom I got to know as a work companion in the Monuments Office in Mexico City. I admired his drawing style, his engravings, his sense of humor and his qualities as a human being. I was still able to have met him in February last year on occasion of the… Continue

Added by Michael Drewes on February 2, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

The Fascination of Defenestration

When I was a little girl reading about the famous wave of defenestration in mediaeval Prague (under the influence of church reformer John Wycliffe) I was much struck by this very odd method of murder. I later found out that it was not nearly as rare as I had imagined—it’s been a repetitive expression of political dissent through history. But for a long time, I had looked at windows quite differently.

While not all of the windows below are suitable for defenestration, they were… Continue

Added by Elizabeth on February 1, 2010 at 1:06am — 3 Comments