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INEVITABLE ARCHITECTURE | LEBBEUS WOODS

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How important is it—if at all—for architects to consider the ultimate decay of the buildings they design? There is, of course, another, less common and more difficult way, and that is to embrace or at least accept decay from the start. The following photographs are by Cristopher Payne. From his series North Brother Island:. You’re currently reading “INEVITABLE ARCHITECTURE,” an entry on LEBBEUS WOODS. July 9, 2012 / 9:38 pm. Jump to comment form. 8220;The reality and reliability of the human world rests ...

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GOODBYE [sort of] | LEBBEUS WOODS

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The days of regular posting on the LW blog are over. From time to time, I will post an article on the blog. I certainly don’t expect readers to check into the blog regularly, as they have been able to do over the past four years. Readers who subscribe to the blog will get these occasional postings. I must say that it has been a privilege to have communicated with so many bright and energetic readers. It has been a unique experience in my life that I will always value highly. August 11, 2012 / 10:58 pm.

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ARCHITECTURE AND BEAUTY | LEBBEUS WOODS

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The well-written and unpretentious essays peer into the thoughts, aspirations, and, occasionally, even methods of the architects, often with carefully selected quotations from the interviews. The following are a few examples, with sample illustrations. The full line-up: Will Alsop, Peter Cook, Odile Decq, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank O. Gehry, Mark Goulthorpe, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Kol/Mac, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gaetano Pesce, Wolf D. Prix, Lebbeus Woods. I had the pleas...

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MANUEL DELANDA: Emergence | LEBBEUS WOODS

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Will be published by Continuum, London, in January 2011. LW]. Emergent effects could not be explained. That have been elucidated in the decades since the original emergentists first wrote. Thus, what is different today from the early twentieth century views is the. Status of emergence: it does not have to be accepted as a brute fact but can be explained without fearing that it will be explained away. What has remained the same is the. What kinds of concrete emergent wholes can we legitimately believe in?

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KIESLER’S DOUBLE VISION | LEBBEUS WOODS

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KIESLER’S DOUBLE VISION. Frederick Kiesler’s texts:. Kiesler’s conceptual and design sketches:. Kiesler’s plan for installation of the Vision Machine in a gallery or museum or, perhaps, a new type of building:. You’re currently reading “KIESLER’S DOUBLE VISION,” an entry on LEBBEUS WOODS. December 22, 2009 / 8:11 pm. Jump to comment form. Forgive me i’ve been drinking Chimay and some of those new Coastal Wheats by Samual A.😉. Take a human head, put it under a “spot light” ray trace light, fo...In 3DMAX ...

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KNOTS: the architecture of problems | LEBBEUS WOODS

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KNOTS: the architecture of problems. The following is a summary of a lecture given by LW in the KNOTS Advanced Concepts seninar. At The Cooper Union School of Architecture; Anthony Vidler, Dean; LW, seminar leader; and students: ARCH 205. Undergraduate): Pamela Cabrera, Ezegbebe Eribo, Andres Larrauri, Standish Lee, Louis Lipson, Emily Martinez, Harry Marzyn, Natalie Savva, David Varon, Galen Wolfe-Pauly; ARCH 485. We should always keep in mind that the goal of our work in this seminar is. The most obvio...

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REAL PAPER ARCHITECTURE | LEBBEUS WOODS

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8212;- REBEL FORCES ENTER TRIPOLI. Qaddafi’s brutal reign may be nearing its end. http:/ www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/world/africa/22libya.html? For previous posts on this blog, see https:/ lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/solidarity-updated-226/. First: in that pre-computer era, all measurements of the actual architecture had to be made by hand—a formidable task in itself. It is also worth mentioning that the book’s pattern pages have the visual allure of abstract paintings, enhanced by the knowledge...

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Space-age Aerogel Insulation Now Cheaper and Available in Sheets | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

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Create an Inhabitat account. Sign up for weekly newsletter. I agree to receive emails from the site. I can withdraw my consent at any time by unsubscribing. Do you live in Canada? Space-age Aerogel Insulation Now Cheaper and Available in Sheets. May not be sexy, but it is important. Over the past years we’ve seen leaps and bounds towards creating cheaper, thinner, more breathable materials with higher R-values. Aspen Aerogel offers a roll of the material in 0.2 or 0.4 in thicknesses and 57 inches...Aerog...

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LIBESKIND’S MACHINES | LEBBEUS WOODS

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Elaborately constructed and enigmatic in purpose, Libeskind’s machines are striking and sumptuous manifestations of ideas that were, at the time he made them, of obsessive interest to academics, critics and avant-gardists in architecture and out. Principal among these was the idea that architecture must be read, that is, understood, in the same way as a written text. Appended here are two of Libeskind’s. You’re currently reading “LIBESKIND’S MACHINES,” an entry on LEBBEUS WOODS. Jump to comment form.