Iconic Architecture Poster Series by Andre Chiote

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Busan, Korea 2003 vs. 2011

Over eight years ago I particpated in the Busan International Student Design Seminar (BIADS), hosted by the city of Busan. Concurrently the city hosted the Busan International Architectural Competition (BIARC). BIADS received attendance by most of the architectural colleges in Busan, something like 8-10 colleges as I recall. Five other Texas Tech students, Dean Vernooy and Professor Michael Mussotter joined together to vist South Korea and the seminar/competition. The event was well received by all parties and well celebrated.Today, as I skimmed through Bustler and Archinect I see the following rendering by Columbia University students. The exact same location as the competition and seminar. Busan has been acquiring and hosting competition after competition to design and develop Gwangalli Bay. I'll be interested to see the eventual developments in Busan as the city continues to grow, the different demographics, the population change and locations of populous etc. Busan Wiki busan demographics

Top 25 Architecture firms of 2011

Via Architectural Record July Issue

work sketches

did this little sketch at the office and while it's workstations layouts . . . cubicles . . . i think it has some potential to develop into a sweet series of sketches. what you think?

PeopleFund On Inhabitat

Check out the inhabitat article: PeopleFund

I recall the beginning of this project: an evening conversation with trace paper over pizza at Frank and Angie's. This was the first project I was able to lead with our principal and see the project through all design phases, construction and documentation.

EDWARD TUFTE

Edward Tufte - the Leonardo of Information . . . APRIL 6th 2011



He comes to Austin just about every year and gives a full day lecture on his work and theories. There is a discounted rate if you purchase tickets in groups of 10 or more. If anyone is interested in going to this please respond in the comments section. I'd be willing to save up to bankroll the purchase if I can receive paypal payment and confirmation immediately after.

This should be a must go to for all architects or aspiring architects/designers.

Fetish Systems

New book by my friend, Raafat, from Beirut, Lebanon. Haven't read it yet but should be a good one based off his conversation and skills of sarcasm. get it [ here ]

But Does It Float: Blog

But Does It Float Found this nice blog a week or so ago . . . definitely some nice collections neatly organized . . .

Free Green: Who's Next Competition

Cool competition we found via Bustler.

Check out some of the great entries at Free Green

A couple of us at 4401 teamed up to enter hinge house

Color Selection Web Sites

Found these while searching for color schemes to map floor plans. They both have interactive color selection interfaces.

Kuler


















Color Blender

The Sketchbook Project

'It's like a concert tour but with sketchbook's" says the website tag line. Thanks to JKyle for sending this my way! What a cool idea for a tour. You can select a theme and the tour swings through Brooklyn, Atlanta, San Fran, Austin, Portland and Chicago. Books are cheap, you can get it scanned and lots of people can see your work and you can see theirs. You have to use their Blue/Red moleskine book but other than that it's pretty open ended as long as you do something in the book ...

Anyone else in? thesketchbookproject

LoRes Project

thanks to Chuck i found this cool project - if only i could just purchase a new 3D scanner and do cool junk like this on my days off .... thanks Rem K!

lores

Turner Exhibits

Ever wondered what you'd do instead of going to an architectural firm where you drafted a majority of the time? Well check out a firm that specializes in drawing, crafting, and machining all the cool brainstorms you wanted to put into your projects! Turner Exhibits is that firm. The slayers of dull and drab do-make cool and awesome things happen for designers and architects, notably the firms Anderson-Wise & Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen. The clever use of materials and custom 'kinetic-architecture' makes me jealous and leaves me drooling!

Hot Rod House - Tom Kundig (Architect)


Chicken Point - Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen (Architects)

PeopleFund Steel Erection

This weekend I witnessed the birthing of a project ... glorious! Since 2007 Winter I have been working at Lawrence Group Architects Austin on PeopleFund [see entry 10.25.09] and now the steel is being erected on site. Notice the top right structure appears to cantilever beyond the column grid - in the next week the diagonal bracing will tie back to the second grid of columns creating a suspended hung 'cantilever' (top). I'll keep posting as construction continues ...

Pearls

Noted 7.12.2006 Leuven, Belgium

Dr. Buelinckx and I discussed the principles of architecture. Simply, designing spaces fundamentally based on types of structures surrounding the actions of human beings.

Architects should choreograph human movement through spaces. 'Verbs' or actions of humans are most significant because humans are animate beings constantly interacting with one another and with inanimate objects within a space. Engineering tends to base its principles on 'nouns' and objects. It is the job of the architect to determine the type of action and design the space(s) accordingly and then also design the inanimate functional objects within that space. As long as humans are on this planet we are restricted by gravity to movement in the vertical stance and less so in horizontal directions. This means circulation is primarily, if not solely, movement upon a single plane. Design is simple and space becomes complex when one starts manipulating the plane. [MVRDV vs. Le Corbusier]

Hendrika Buelinckx & Jeremy Wahlberg

BlogIcon II

i really like the name 'blogicon' said as one word sounds fun. like chaka khan. or similar to the image below ;) my original idea was to generate more icons of the big from all of us and then rotate them as we come up with them. so that the image is always in flux since we are always defining what the big 4401 is to us. also the image was to kickoff some much needed interaction and postings on the blog :)

moleskine collection I

just went digging through some older moleskines i had laying around - the following are from 3 skines all of which went on a couple travels to europe with me - i'll post another series soon ...

_cliff dwellings
composed of planes, lines and points along cliffs these creations cantilever over canyon rims, cliff edges etc. the concept that they are temporary and can be anchored to the earth and cliff sides with structural components by drilling and hanging fastening.






















_kinetic iterations
fluid pieces of objects, materials, moving parts assemblages and fragment amalgamations compose these concepts of imagined architectures. scale is left to the imagination. i think of time pieces blown up in scale. these are quick vingnettes plan/elevations/sections of an object - i draw these quickly with pencil first, usually never picking up the point, (similar to the idea behind the singing line in japanese prints) ink the pencil, add dashed lines representing layering of parts and then fill in parts that are critical or unique.

where do these go now? they are really just snippets of a larger idea ... how would one take it to the next level?

KROB SUBMISSION THIS SATURDAY 5pm

_kinetic 01


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Hey gents,

KROB

Submit your work, little sketches, competition renderings etc. It's easy, takes 10 minutes and if you are AIA its $20, second entry is only $10. Either way - just do it.

worm

PeopleFund Center For Economic Opportunity

PeopleFund is a non profit organization "PeopleFund is a non-profit dedicated to creating economic opportunity." This weekend they held their Conference on Economic Opportunity - more can be found at their website.

This project is located in East Austin near the MLK rail stop. The developers of the site have planned to eventually incorporate mixed use occupancy as well as two other non profits, Austin Children's Museum and Sustainable Foods. I have been on this project from the schematic design phase, design development, construction documents and now into construction administration. Its a small 2 story facility, 10,000 SF, hope to attain LEED silver certification and it is to be completed by the end of summer 2010.

The rendering is from the SW corner looking NE, Clark Keitel from our St. Louis office does most of our watercolor renders for using as marketing for the client as well as showing clients an idea of the finished building. I'd like to model in sketchup and illustrate to give a different method of review for marketing. Give me ideas!!

Hope to keep the blog updated as we enter and continue through construction!

autodesk sketch book for i-phone

Not that we all have i-phones or whatever, but this app is really cool - and it's surprising that autodesk created it! It's user friendly and fun and has some cool functions: you can change brush size, type, layers, colors via color wheel or swatches and it all works on touch and an intuitive menu.

This is a perspective sketch i did in only few minutes with the mirror tool and a brush ... i can go in later and fill and add detail ... I hear there are apps on the market that can allow contractors in the field to take a picture and in real time architects back at the studio sketch over it to show the contractor what needs to change etc. SWEET!