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Creative Process Sneak a Peak
I was opening files and this Skype chat between MJ and I came up. We were in the same city, yes, but in different houses, late at night (noooo we didn’t have a fight… it’s a loooong story… to be told another time) We had a deadline on an article we had been asked to write [...]
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Sunday Morsel 5
“Nostalgia means living permanently in a form of denial, and what is particularly sinister about it is that it is driving the left as much as the right, intellectuals as much as the general population.” Rem Koolhaas – Rem Koolhaas Hans Ulrich Obrist The Conversation Series
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One Step at a Time…
The Wolfe Den stair progresses. The middle partition that ties into the rift cut white oak guardrail is in. And a preview of the Ipe treads. Kilean made it by with me today to check it out and generally reek havoc with everyone… more about “untitled“ Some nice progress! Here’s three weeks ago.
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Sunday Morsel 4
a poem by Lebbeus Woods War and Architecture Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family, [...]
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Tags: architecture, arhitektura, contemporary architecture, lebbeus woods, pamphlet architecture, poetry, rat i arhitektura, Sarajevo, war and architecture
Asphalt to Collect Solar Energy
Is anyone else as excited about this as I am?
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Harvard, the Street not the…
some teasers of one our duplexes in east austin… more about "untitled", posted with vodpod
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32nd Street Remodel
Some spanking new sketches by MJ for a remodel of an Arts and Crafs cottage in the University area. more about “32nd Street Remodel“, posted with vodpod
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Tile, Tub, Trellis (TTT’s)
more about “untitled“, posted with vodpod A few images from the last site visit. Alex chats as John and Mike of Living Art Austin lean on the rift cut white oak guardrail just freshly installed. Dennis has the spoon tub installed and the shower running.
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Sunday Morsel 3
“There are no twelve-year-old geniuses in architecture,” remarked Le Corbusier. Architecture is a field for irrepressible optimism and demands a tenacious staying power. from Mexican Architecture, the work of Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon by Paul Heyer
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Dancing About the Mulberry Trees
in 2003 we were asked to submit ideas for an Art Forum and Community Center in Annaka, Japan… Our design was centered about the Mulberry trees we were gonna plant, hundreds of them. See if you can spot the kids with balloons and the dog (in the sketches.) MJ and I have gone into macrobiotics [...]
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The House that Will Never be.
(Yet another one) For all those people that think the project on south 5 st, in Bouldin, is ours, no it isn’t! This is the house we had designed and permitted for South 5 St and that was never built.This was actually the second design for this extremely difficult lot. We posted the first design [...]
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Twin Peaks Explained
more about “Twin Peaks Explained“, posted with vodpod There seems to be a few questions about Twin Peaks on Apartment Therapy. I guess we can answer them here… Yes, the central piece seems to float off the walls. It’s structure is attached to the wall by brackets. Since the houses are not big, it allows [...]
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It must be Twin Peaks month:-) Good Life Magazine and now Apartment Therapy A house tour by Adrienne Breaux. Fantastic article and she took a bunch of pictures, there’s a pretty comprehensive slideshow. Wow, it’s SO great to see a good picture of that table. MJ can design furniture like nobody’s business. I keep wishing [...]
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