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Steel skin can hide volumes about an architect’s structure

spencer — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:09:34 +0000

Frank O. Gehry, there is no other practicing architect who has as much name recognition amongst laymen and who can cause such distress amongst architects. With his two recent projects (the Princeton Lewis Science Library and an addition to the Art Gallery of Ontario) open to the public there has been much talk about the [...]

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Steel skin can hide volumes about an architect’s structure

Adaptively reused Circuit Cities, here we come!

spencer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:32:16 +0000

With the recent closing of many of the area’s Circuit City stores and the bleak financial forecast, this Sunday’s Washington Post article about what to do with big box stores after they close down, seemed to be fortuitously timed to impact the local planning discourse. For this article, the Post assembled a collection of local [...]

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Adaptively reused Circuit Cities, here we come!

Kandinsky, Lissitzky and Goncharova, OH MY!

spencer — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:58:01 +0000

This past Sunday, the Washington Post ran an article about an exhibit of Russian porcelain figurines. From the author’s description I can imagine that when approached with the right mindset, this would be a very interesting exhibit, especially if there was a historiographical entry for each piece explaining the popular and political culture from its [...]

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Kandinsky, Lissitzky and Goncharova, OH MY!

Flat packed boxes made of ticky tack all look the same

spencer — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:43:01 +0000

[Image via Peter Morgan published in accordance with creative commons attribution license.] This Sunday the Washington Post ran two different architecture/design articles, one about the MoMA prefab housing exhibit – “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling” and the other about IKEA’s new catalog and its pastiche of Modern and Classic styles. Both articles dwell on [...]

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Flat packed boxes made of ticky tack all look the same

Better Red than … an intern-architect?

spencer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:44:24 +0000

The Washington Post ran an article by Philip Kennicott in this Sunday’s Style & Arts section about the massive building boom and its affect on the culture of architecture in china. The article goes into depth about how the western concept of permanency and a national architectural identity is in direct contrast to the Chinese [...]

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Better Red than … an intern-architect?

Article: This Diamond Isn’t a Gem

spencer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:30:20 +0000

The Washington PostÂ ran an article critiquing the National’s Stadium on the Anacostia Waterfront. (Click here for the article). Â The author’s main thesis is that while the new stadium functions much better than RFK, it is lacking in charm and thoughtful design. Â This can be illustrated in the two quotes below: The old and much-malignedÂ RFK Stadium, [...]

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Article: This Diamond Isn’t a Gem

Article: Jean Nouvel Wins Architecture’s Top Prize

spencer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:23:55 +0000

According to the Washington Post (click here for the article) Jean Nouvel has been awarded the Pritzker Prize. A more fully illustrated blog post can be found at Gizmodo (click here for the post). This intrigues me because Jean Nouvel is one of the contemporary architects whose buildings were used quite often as precedent studies [...]

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Article: Jean Nouvel Wins Architecture’s Top Prize

Article: Architecture and the Ability to Draw People In

spencer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:55:27 +0000

The Washington Post has an article (click here for the article) in this Sunday’s “Style” section about two different urban landscape projects in DC. This article is an intersting analysis of two urban landscapes on the boards for DC. The author examines these landscapes in two dimensions: first to see if they fit with the [...]

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Article: Architecture and the Ability to Draw People In