Category: representation
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Veg.itecture #22
I’m giving a presentation next week at work about Vegetated Architecture, and spent a good amount of time sifting through some interesting additions, as well as some old favorites from the archives. It is interesting when compiling this information to see how the evolution of the concept has occurred over the very brief amount of…
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Reading List: Inspired by Nature: Plants
This past weekend, I swung by my local mecca of all things printed word, and as always was both struck and disappointed with the selection of architectural titles. One they had in the newish ‘green building’ section at Powell’s was ‘Inspired by Nature – Plants: The Building Botany Connection’ by Bahamon, Perez, and Compello (published…
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Go: West 8 Young Man
I try to hide my distaste or love for things landscape+urbanist in the quest for some sort of neutrality (um, ok, not really). Without critical evaluation and dialogue – we lack the capacity to expand our thinking and examine our interventions in ways that are beneficial to us individually and collectively. Or in short, we…
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Veg.itecture #21
A few choice projects in the realm of Vegetated Architecture. Also, stay tuned for my review of the innaugural issue of GRHCs ‘Living Architecture Monitor’ of which they were kind enough to send me a copy. I perused it on the bus this evening, and it’s definitely one of the better resources out there (more…
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No More Suburbs
This has been covered all over the web – and well, it’s just a good story that needed to be told. Perennial provocateur Andrew Maynard, whom appeared on L+U with his Tattoo House, has now developed an intricately woven design for ‘Suburb Eating Robots’. While whimsical – there is a significant amount a truth and…
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Big + Cool: Balmori’s Mammoth Endeavor
A recent bit of information from the NY AIA awards, announcing one of the winning entries for 2008. The ‘World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum’ in Yakutsk, Siberia, which was a first-prize winner in a 2007 competition, is a project that definitely posed some challenges in site and program. The result ended up with an interesting…
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Materiality: Textured Verticality
It has been a bit since I’ve discussed the concept of texture and materials – and a quick peek through some saved up links made me realize there was a bevy of project images just waiting to emerge. I will attempt to focus this a bit by concentrating on vertical surface texture – spanning a…
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Parks: With Los Angeles Style
A couple of recent announcements in World Architecture News has definitely aimed the spotlight at Los Angeles for cutting edge parks and open space implementation. And this doesn’t even include the local media-saturated Orange County Great Park (subject of some upcoming coverage of our own here at L+U). The first project is by one of…
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Veg.itecture #18
A significant number of Vegetated Architecture examples with facade and rooftop greening strategies. I hope no one suffers from sensory overload with this weekends dual Veg.itecture posts, so without further ado, the projects:I spotted this project by Veg.itect Jean Nouvel via Dezain for the “Building C1” in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and it was a pretty interesting…
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Veg.itecture #17
There seems to be a significant backlog of Vegetated Architecture examples I will catch up on in the upcoming week. For this version, we will focus on a typology that we featured previously, some abstracted and representational vegetation forms in buildings and artwork. These span incorporation into building structure and form – as well as…