Maquettes in Architecture: The Forgotten Joys of Model-Making
Dec 22, 2020 · The instant physical exploration of ideas—with quick cutting and gluing of cardboard, paper, foamcore, and wood, spiced with plasticine clay, paint, or bits of clear plastic and metal—provided a primal joy that no screen can ever capture. Like a sculptor’s maquette, an architect’s model is simultaneously a search for and a test of ideas.
How the Wood-Frame House Became America’s Most Familiar …
Jun 6, 2022 · Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in deference to its street address—Wrightwood 659. The gallery is currently staging a resourceful exhibition on wood-frame construction, the method by which more than 90% of U.S. houses are built.
In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings - Common Edge
Mar 1, 2022 · Although it was originally published in 2019, this essay by Randy Nishimura, lightly updated, serves as a rebuttal of sorts to Duo Dickinson’s recent Common Edge piece,“ The Architectural Pandemic of the ‘Stick Frame Over Podium’ Building.”Dickinson likens the building type to a plague; Nishimura offers a contrarian’s perspective. A recent spate of …
How Christopher Alexander Changed Architecture—and Much More
03.22.2022. By Duo Dickinson. Christopher Alexander, perhaps the single most effective polymath architect of his generation, has died at the age of 85. Through teaching, writing, building, inspiring technology, planning, and even delving into theology as well as pedagogy and aesthetic theory, Alexander created, over six decades of relentless ...
The Legacy of Christopher Alexander: Form Language, Pattern …
Jun 4, 2018 · A Form language consists of a set of definitions and vocabulary of building and design components that can be combined coherently. These comprise specific geometries, shape and size of pieces, particular materials, etc. To most people, this is what characterizes architectural “style.”. Evolved form languages always adapt to locality ...
Hidden Figures: The Historic Contributions of Black Architects
Oct 5, 2020 · Designer Paul Wellington, based in Milwaukee, is the author of Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community, a book that documents more than 40 works of architecture around the country by Black architects that have had a direct impact on communities or color.He’s now working on a new book that will focus on Black women architects in a field dominated by white males.
Opinion - Common Edge
Sep 10, 2024 · Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time. 05.30.2024. By Duo Dickinson. The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence. More. Opinion.
architecture – Page 24 – Common Edge
Jul 17, 2018 · Forty years after making his first trip, the author revels in the landscape and despairs about what we’ve built on it. More
Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem
Aug 27, 2020 · The most arresting image, among many, in the documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, directed by Alison Ellwood, is a black-and-white photograph of Eric Clapton visiting Los Angeles for the first time on tour with Cream. He sits a few feet from Joni Mitche ll, who is playing guitar, with a visibly stoned David Crosby in the …
My Love/Hate Relationship With New York City – Common Edge
Oct 12, 2021 · My Love/Hate Relationship With New York City. 10.12.2021. By Martin C. Pedersen. When my wife and I moved back to New York after a decade in New Orleans, she made me promise that I wouldn’t spend the first few months complaining about how much things had changed in our absence. Truth be told, that’s not entirely accurate: I could complain ...