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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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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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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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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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Zumthor is the man
That would be “the man” as in the good, iconoclastic, sort of James Brown way not the governmental, controlling, fascist (I won’t mention any names) sort of way. so check it: Zumthor goes to the essence of things
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Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) The thing I love most about Ettore Sottsass is his beautiful, poignant, often ironic writing. The following was in The Reader (a compilation of architecture writings from news papers around the world) put out by Abitare. The writing was originally published in Terrazzo, n. 12 HOUSES HAVE AN INTERIOR Those who build a house [...]
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one word
Authenticity! Something that should be on every architects mind. Think about it!
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sunday morsel
O.K., It’s the weekend and beautiful outside and I’m inside, working, what the f…heck. So I thought I would share a tasty morsel from Mr. Alto that seemed appropriate on a Sunday afternoon… “Though solving the problem of architecture involves a crucial process of humanization, architecture is faced with the old problem of monumentalism and form just as it always was. All attempts to eliminate [...]
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Becoming
“Human beings can be divided into two tendencies. The large majority remain locked in the past. They produce nothing but imitation and degradation of what they imitate. The others, a minority, are fully involved in an effort to understand the present-to prepare for tomorrow and reveal it.” Andre’ Wogenscky from Le Corbusier’s Hands
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We’ve had some beautiful days of light this last week even if or possibly because of the high cedar pollen count. Some of us are suffering mightily! I managed to drag myself to the job site and snap a few shots in between sneezing and snorting and just generally trying to breath. I’ve read that [...]
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Dun Laoghaire Raises its Head…
…and we raised a Lagavulin or three…maybe that’s why we didn’t get into the final selection, we were drinking Scotch instead of Irish wiskey. You might recall the Dun Laoghaire Library competition. Well, here are a couple of images of it that one of my cohorts on the project , Jett Butler, Foda Studio, whipped [...]
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