Category: representation
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Reading List: (AD) Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site
This fusion of magazine sized pamphlet/paperback book from Architecutural Design is entitled ‘Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site’ (Wiley, May 2007), and is a really quality investigation into some of the very themes in which I hold dear. I loaned this out and had not had an opportunity to delve into it until now and I was pleased…
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Eco-Planning: Squared
Some interesting new ecologically planning community examples via the wire(s), pushing the boundaries of what is possible on a large-scale, as well as looking at new opportunities for redevelopment of polluted or marginal lands. Overall these offer some interesting precedents to round out the previous examples on L+U. A trio of recent examples by (one…
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Veg.itecture @ 16
I may have finally tapped out the well in creative titles for Vegetated Architecture. A few times warrant some more significant coverage of one project, but for the most part the groups are a someone random assortment of projects that are given a little thread of narrative to tie them loosely together. There have been…
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Veg.itecture: Photo Gallery 2
After spending a solid 12 hour day up and back to Seattle, I’m ready for a quick and easy post. Following up on my recent combing through of the backlog of Inhabitat links, which unearthed a bevy of great stuff related to Vegetated Architecture and more, with more to come. This reminded me that a…
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Representing: Greening Buildings
The methods of representing vegetation on buildings is of vital importance to the acceptance and further expansion of the concept. I’d dare posit that it’s also a strategy to create excitement as well as enough realism where this doesn’t lead to disappointment when the project is build. In this vein, some representation of projects –…
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Past Forward: Mannahatta
I may have mentioned my love of historic urban maps. If not, then I will plead guilty here, and offer up Strange Maps as a vital modern contribution to our historical heritage, and let slip fact that I’ve read most of the written works of Mark Monmonier. As objects, maps are fascinating artifacts. Even more…
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Materiality: Textural Classes
Like color, the use of texture is an adaptable design strategy to transform a material and expand its range of visual and functional characteristics. There are a number of ways to take existing material and provide an added dimension through manipulation of texture through patterning, perforating, and articulating. Digging back through the archives, I discovered…
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Green Ribbon Design: Heping Park
Here is really compelling project by Perkins+Will for the Heping Park in Tianjin, China, provides elevated ribbons of vegetation defining the roof zones. :: image via Perkins+Will Covered in World Architecture Network, the project description is punctuated by 3 large towers, as well as parking and green spaces creating a vegetated canopy that is engaging…
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Color Theory
These images on MoCo Loco’s Art MoCo featuring the work of artist Denny McCoy’s simple yet somehow deep paintings of colored bands, jogged my memory of a couple of recent color-related resources that floated by recently. Part photoshop swatch, part Timbuk2 messenger bag – it’s not the composition, but the complement of shades and tones…
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One Single Tree
The story of the 150 year old Chestnut tree outside of Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam, and the heroic efforts to save it, makes one think of our careless disregard for trees and the benefits they bring to us. (Read more about this at Treehugger) It is inevitable that a tree will succumb to nature…