Archive for August, 2006
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Brazilian architect. He graduated in architecture in 1954 from Mackenzie University, São Paulo, one of a new generation of professionals from the newly created, autonomous architecture faculties that replaced the specialist courses in engineering schools. He entered private practice in São Paulo in 1955, and in 1957 he won a competition for the Paulistano Athletics […]
Guggenheim Foundation builds its largest museum in Abu Dhabi
The Guggenheim will open a Frank Gehry-designed art museum in Abu Dhabi, a cultural coup for a small Persian Gulf nation in the midst of a mammoth building boom, and an adventurous expansion by one of the world’s most famous foundations.
The New York-based Guggenheim Foundation, which attracts over 2.5 million visitors each year to its […]
Zaha Hadid’s Flying Ferocity
When Zaha Hadid’s new building for the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art opened in 2003, it was clear her long years in the wilderness, as an architect primarily famous for not getting her buildings built, were over.
Hadid, a drafter of rigorously utopian visions, whose drawings often look like a cross between something by Kandinsky and […]
Gehry down to the girders
Funny things happen when you point a camera at your friend — and we’re not talking America’s Funniest Home Videos. The dynamics of the relationship can shift abruptly, because the person standing behind the camera is in the position of confessor, while the person before the lens is forced into the awkward role of flawed […]
You Can Own An American Home
The recently opened “Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful” exhibition at Boise Art Museum (BAM) contains over 100 pieces–including furniture, fixtures, magazines, textiles, photos and rarely exhibited original drawings–organized around the theme of the “house beautiful” (Wright published a book by that title in 1897), or the idea that an interior’s style improved […]
The balloon goes up in Hyde Park
Architect Rem Koolhaas and designer Cecil Balmond tell Dominic Bradbury why they have created an ‘anti-building’ at the Serpentine Gallery
It seems extraordinary that Rem Koolhaas, one of the most radical and innovative architects of our age, has never built in Britain. Then again, that sort of thing usually gets said about one superstar architect or […]
Tate Modern Tate 2: Herzog and de Meuron go gothic
If Tate Modern, the contemporary art museum opened in 2000, is a bilaterally-split classical composition, then the design for Tate Modern 2 by the same architects, Herzog and de Meuron, erupts into joyous asymmetrical gothic. Freed from the formal geometry of Giles Gilbert Scott’s mid 20th century power station with its central tower, the Swiss […]
AutoCAD Tips and Tricks
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Architecture studio madness
If you know any architecture students… you know they go mad working on their projects.