Architecture

[David G]

I found this one interesting. Quirky and creative. Doubly so because I met this architect once while living in Texas.

Feel free to add others --

https://magazine.texasarchitects.org.../08/the-perch/

[webishop14]

I hope that's not his idea of a "mother-in-law" cabin.

[Joe (SoCal)]

Im a big Frank Gehry fan



When Frank Gehry and his wife bought an existing house in Santa Monica, California, the neighbors did not have the slightest idea that the corner residence would soon be transformed into a symbol of deconstructivism. Gehry, however, knew something had to be done to the house before he moved in. His solution was a bold one in the 1970's that involved the "balance of fragment and whole, raw and refined, new and old" and would strike up controversy.

[mike9199]

That looks very unusual We just started to build our house now and I definitely don't mind checking some interesting ideas.
Also have a question to members with their own homes: when do you get warranty for your home, when it is already build or before it?Cin
I am going to contact Cinch Home Services customer service https://cinch-home-services.pissedco...r-service.html but curious if it is not too early if the home will be finished not before 2024

[Joe (SoCal)]

That looks very unusual

If your talking about Frank Gehry this was the beginning of his ascetic

This is what it became:



Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California



Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain

[David G]

I hope that's not his idea of a "mother-in-law" cabin.

Combo spare room, studio, and place to hole up while total re-do of the cottage below happens. More here --

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/11/07/ni...sion-bungalow/

[John Meachen]

I liked this when I saw it.

[CWSmith]

These things all seem rather indulgent. I am much more impressed with the tiny home communities, especially those designed to get people off the street and into private housing. There is a lot of discipline that goes into those designs and a lot of good accomplished.

[David G]

These things all seem rather indulgent. I am much more impressed with the tiny home communities, especially those designed to get people off the street and into private housing. There is a lot of discipline that goes into those designs and a lot of good accomplished.

Horses for courses.

[David G]

I've posted this one before, but still love it as a 'tiny house' or guest cottage --

https://studiohamlet.com/wp-content/...uest_house.pdf

[RFNK]

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...r-architecture

[Paul Pless]

'rural studio' not profit architecture firm, alabama









communal greenhouse

[Dave Hadfield]

Weird shapes for weirdness' sake are a useless affectation. They're just an architectural tattoo.

On the other hand, if the weird shape captures the sun for light, the shade for coolness, shelters from the wind, sheds the snow, and generates low maintenance, it's perfect.

[David G]

Weird shapes for weirdness' sake are a useless affectation. They're just an architectural tattoo.

On the other hand, if the weird shape captures the sun for light, the shade for coolness, shelters from the wind, sheds the snow, and generates low maintenance, it's perfect.

One of my all-time fave architects is Antoni Gaudi... you should speak to him.





Maybe you prefer Marcel Breuer?

[Dave Hadfield]

You make my point.

[Breakaway]

Horses for courses.

Unless it's a pickup truck. Then, we must decry them!



Interesting thread, David. I'm not an erudite fan of architecture, but I am aware of how a space affects me and makes me feel.

Kevin

[Canoeyawl]

Is that a Doberman Pissoff?

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[Joe (SoCal)]

One of my all-time fave architects is Antoni Gaudi... you should speak to him.





Maybe you prefer Marcel Breuer?

I’ve been The La Familia and I absolutely love Antoni Gaudi.

I aloe love the brutalist architecture of Marcel Breuer and Louis Kahn

[David G]

I’ve been The La Familia and I absolutely love Antoni Gaudi.

I aloe love the brutalist architecture of Marcel Breuer and Louis Kahn

I have no love nor use for the brutalist movement. Misguided approach from wounded souls who lost sight of humanity. Rather the antithesis of another favorite - Christopher Alexander. Architecture is NOT 'a machine for living'.

[Ian McColgin]

For a season Gehry's sloop was moored by us in Hyannis Port. Very interesting. He did the aesthetic design and had a real NA do the working parts. Trescool.

[Nicholas Carey]

I think Gehry is a lousy architect, who is entranced by curvy sheet metal. And his ego. As buildings for actual human beings to occupy, pretty suboptimal, but as advertising for Gehry the brand, great.

He designed Paul Allen's Jimmy Hendrix Museum, now the Museum of Popular Culture (MoPop) at Seattle Center, the site of the early 1960s Seattle World's Fair. It is a bastion of Mid-Century Modern architecture. Several buildings by the guy who designed the World Trade Center in Manhattan.

MoPop is supposed to resemble an electric guitar. It does not, unless you count the superfluous "guitar strings and bridge" on top. Looking at it from the water on Lake Union, you realize that it's nothing more than a lump of iridescent titanium sheet blocking the view of the nicer buildings behind it.

Read an interview with him a year or so after MoPoP opened, where he basically said that it was intended to fly the finger at Seattle Center. He dislikes MCM architecture and didn't like the site, so eff you, and eff Seattle.

[David G]

Here in Portland, we are saddled with the Beyond Lame 'Portland Building' by Michael Graves... who had a moment back in the 80's. Ugly building, crappy engineering, abysmal to inhabit. Has cost many millions to retrofit to make it marginally useable. OTOH, he inexplicably included a copper sculpture - Portlandia - which is a marvel and a thing of beauty. Positioned, of course, in a way to make is quite difficult to fully appreciate <sigh>

[Breakaway]

Here in Portland, we are saddled with the Beyond Lame 'Portland Building' by Michael Graves... who had a moment back in the 80's. Ugly building, crappy engineering, abysmal to inhabit. Has cost many millions to retrofit to make it marginally useable. OTOH, he inexplicably included a copper sculpture - Portlandia - which is a marvel and a thing of beauty. Positioned, of course, in a way to make is quite difficult to fully appreciate

Maybe he wants us to see the whole? That is, mans unnatural, ego-driven ugliness and dysfunction hemming in nature, which becomes harder to appreciate all the time. Ha! A developers rant against development. Genius, wrapped in inexplicability.

No?


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[David G]

Maybe he wants us to see the whole? That is, mans unnatural, ego-driven ugliness and dysfunction hemming in nature, which becomes harder to appreciate all the time. Ha! A developers rant against development. Genius, wrapped in inexplicability.

No?
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Sure. Maybe. Who can say.

Or maybe he had one brainstorm that turned out well... because he engaged with a sculptor whose talent and genius exceeded his own. Thereby saving the project from total failure...

[David G]

Another tiny house... or guest cabin/studio --

https://www.finehomebuilding.com/mem.../021S48042.pdf

[JimD]

Royal Hawaiin Hotel, Waikiki, HI, built, or at least started, in 1927

[Jim Bow]

Seattle Central Library. Rem-Koolhas architects. Very striking and imposing structure, terribly un-friendly interior. Ramps and elevators. No stairs, until they removed the “Emergency Only” off the fire doors. There’s an escalator that climbs multiple floors before you can get off.
I haven’t been inside for at least 10 years, but at that time it seemed dirty, paint scratched, exhibits broken.
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[Jim Bow]

Nicholas Carey: if I may: Frank Gehry is to Architecture as Dale Chihuly is to Art as Kenny G is to Jazz.

[Joe (SoCal)]

Nicholas Carey: if I may: Frank Gehry is to Architecture as Dale Chihuly is to Art as Kenny G is to Jazz.

BULL****

He’s one of the most influential architects since McMeed Meed White

[Nicholas Carey]

Nicholas Carey: if I may: Frank Gehry is to Architecture as Dale Chihuly is to Art as Kenny G is to Jazz.

I don't think much of Chilhuly, either

[Joe (SoCal)]

What does anyone think of Frank Israel?

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Or Charles and Ray Eames case study house?

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[Nicholas Carey]

What does anyone think of Frank Israel?

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Or Charles and Ray Eames case study house?

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First house is nice.

I like Eames, and some mid-century modern stuff.

But there's quite a bit of MCM that might be beautiful, like Phillip Johnson's Glass House



But aren't actually intended for anybody to live in. In Glass House, where do you put your books? Or your clothes, for that matter?

Maybe Marie Kondo would be happy there, but I think even she might have too much stuff for that house.

[L.W. Baxter]

the best architecture harmonizes with the surroundings, natural or manmade.

i have little patience for anything that sticks out like it doesn't belong.

[David G]

Göbekli Tepe A Turkish temple from about 9,000 BC --

https://themindcircle.com/gobekli-te...VJVOR2qqmvY6Ug

[C. Ross]

This thread needs some Duncan.

He hasn’t been round these parts in a long while.