Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
A friend comes to pick up her child from a play-date with our son and she announces excitedly that we are in Dwell. I smile and I say I know! Isn’t it great, we’ve been on Dwell a couple times, which one did you see! And she goes, no, you are in the “100 Houses [...]
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360º West of Farley
We love, love, the article about the Farley studio that just came out on 360º West magazine. Both. MJ and I, think it may be one of best articles on one of our projects. Right up there with the one in Dwell. The photography, the writing, the layout, and the editing simply rock. Kudos to [...]
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The American Institute of Austin, Austin chapter is posting some of the award videos they make every year. I’ll post our wins as they become available. This project of ours was the honor award in 2008. Here’s why, according to the judges. more about “PIlates Studio: Honor award, the Judg…“, posted with vodpod
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There is tacit wisdom of architecture accumulated in history and tradition. But in today’s panicked rush for the new, we rarely stop to listen to this wisdom. Architecture needs slowness to re-connect itself with this source of silent knowledge. Architecture requires slowness in order to develop a cumulative tradition again, to accumulate a sense of [...]
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Duval Studio
The program was to provide workspace for a multi-disciplinary creative studio. The location was in the last remaining intact interior of a small completely masonry (interior and exterior) strip center designed and built in the late forties. New additions are of wood and steel to contrast the existing raw masonry. Everything new is installed so [...]
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my last post was: “Seven green new year resolutions” Other posts: What’s Missing Architect Maya Lin’s latest memorial includes film “Unchopping a Tree.” Seven day countdown on kickstarter for The Windowfarms Project posted by Viviane
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We’re in Dwell again!
Our slideshow is in the front page of Dwell. On the print version, we are in the “Houses we Love” section. Coolness. I love, love Dwell… and they are awesome to deal with, on top of it.
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FIlm and Architecture anyone?
We, us, MJ Neal, AIA and Viviane Vives, taught a graduate advanced design studio at the University of Texas, Arlington. This video explores how the use of film as a research tool in architecture informed the students’ projects and changed them. The students achieved a completely different relationship to the site by the use of [...]
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First Wolfe Den Night Shots
more about “untitled“, posted with vodpod
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Macho Minimalism
The Wolfe Den is in it’s final stages. Little details are being completed like the front door handle and the landscaping is being installed. Becca of Rain Lilly Design has dubbed the front stone entry design “macho minimalism”. I really like that! I’m going to steal it;) Enjoy, I am. more about “untitled“, posted with [...]
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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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Harvard, the Street not the…
some teasers of one our duplexes in east austin… more about "untitled", posted with vodpod
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