It’s concrete guys, so smooth that you’d think it was plastic… fabricated by John Newbold.
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Good News!
In between pretty boys and girls and brainy architecture geniuses, let’s celebrate my first MONTH WITHOUT SMOKING in 25 years! (except for a very short six months in 1992.)
I’ve QUIT SMOKING!!! I’m PSYCHED!!!
Remember the Boston trip? Well I was in my third day, when we left, no really.
The simplest, silliest little book help me do it. I feel like an infomercial and such, but I highly recommend it if you are trying to quit. Don’t judge it, just do what the man says and you will stop smoking. Sometimes the hardest things can suddenly become simple if you reach the right frame of mind, I guess… I’m still pinching myself… The guy, Allan Carr basically tells the truth about smoking and about the health industry myths, I wish someone had bought me this book YEARS ago… YEEEEES!!!!
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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
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 will also be building an inner void.
People, I mean the infinte, diverse, ancient and new people, fill the empty spaces of their houses, and their workshops, with whatever they think may somehow count as protection, precisely, against the unknown.
There are also the protections of so-called “culture”, the protections of rooms full of books or maybe full of “works of art”. “Culture is the most detached, the subtlest protection, the protection that seems to exist beyond the protection itself; “culture” is imagined as a total way out, as the place nearest the truth, as the place that protects more than all the other places, as the place that rubs out all daily sins, as the place farthest from the storms and the becalmed seas, farthest from the unkown, from frailty, farthest from the dreams of guilt, from syphilis and impotence, as the place ever blessed by sperm, as the final place never disclosed by moans.
Ettore Sottssas
Kiaron
No, this is not becoming a photography blog, but what can I say, I’m in a shooting mood. And we can all use a break from architecture once in a while.
Kiaron works at the grocery store and I’ve been wanting to photograph him for a while, then he shows up with a black eye (from trying to break up a fight he says.) So I ask him if he wants to do a short photo session and he goes, yes, my friends tell all the time me I should do that. So we shot yesterday. He calls me before hand hoping he doesn’t have to smile much because he’s sad. I say that’s even better. In 15 minutes we are in another world. Short session, but we decide to milk the black-eye, street-kid thing I mean, what else…
For what I can see, he’s actually pretty angelic and way sweet, but like I told him, the camera doesn’t know that…
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More Wolfe Den and the Kitchen Peek
Is it just me or is this starting to feel like a final stretch?
Check the first pics of the bulthaup kitchen outfit.
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Fashion Teens
This is what I do in my spare time.
What an amazing opportunity:
Veronica, Roma, and Natalie have been getting together for fashion shoots for four years now, they are now fifteen, so do the math. They were joined by EvanA and Aralynne. Veronica is an amazing photographer herself and she chose the setting and orchestrated the get-ups and the do’s. She’s also a beautiful model (she’s the one in the “Kill your TV” t-shirt, a like minded soul!) They all are. Just incredibly talented.
I had such a good time that I’m considering getting back into photography, beyond architectural photography that is. I hope you enjoy these as much as I have shooting them and getting them ready for show. We had so many good pictures that it was quite the task.
Lauren Bard deserves also special credit. She was generous enough to let me participate, as were the girls… Lauren helped me with reflectors and what-not and managed some great shots of her own, on top of it.
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Point Zero
Dr. Ami Ran chats with Tzadik and Elie Eliakim
I’ve excerpted the following from a conversation with the architects in Architecture of Israel Quarterly #60
(The bold and italics are added by me. Enjoy.)
Tzadik and Elie Eliakim – If youre hinting that the building stands out for its modesty, we accept that as a compliment. Today architects are making every effort to convey uniqueness in order to position their individual world-views at the core of their creations. However, when dealing with a structure that must meet particular needs, one must simply deposit ones ego. Though were as up-to-date as we would like to be, we make every effort to avoid producing a “branded” architecture. In order to do so, we are committed to starting every project from point zero, without recycling ready-made solutions, especially such that might vanish once the “attractive” buildings are out of fashion.
Dr. Ami Ran – Im still having trouble grasping how this illustrates a process that begins at point zero? Do you avoid conveying accumulated knowledge from project to project?
Tzadik and Elie Eliakim – Were referring to our personal interpretation of Adolph Loos concept of architecture reduced to zero. According to him, the encounter between the programme and the context is abstract and has no tangible form. That is, ideas have no specific physical configuration.
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