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Bernard Tschumi, Exploded Folie, c. 1983 (via aqqindex)
In New York, to be a young architect is to be 50 years old. In Mexico City, I was seeing a lot of work done literally by people in their mid-20s, barely out of school. We in New York were amazed at the incredible freedom Los Angeles architects had. Because of the climate, things could be much lighter and building codes were less constraining, which gives more freedom to experiment.
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Bernard Tschumi, Bridge City, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1988 (via verbs)
Source: tschumi.com
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Bernard Tschumi Architects, Alésia Museum and Archaeological Park, Alésia, France, 2003-12 (via ombu)
Compare with David Adjaye's Moscow School of Management for siting and formal concepts.
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Ettore Sottsass, Micro-Environment: The New Domestic Landscape, 1972 (via archiveofaffinities)
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Bernard Tschumi, Advertisements for Architecture: Ropes and Rules, 1978 (via betonbabe)
The Manhattan Transcripts differ from most architectural drawings insofar as they are neither real projects nor mere fantasies. Developed in the late '70s, they proposed to transcribe an architectural interpretation of reality. To this aim, they employed a particular structure involving photographs that either direct or "witness" events (some would call them "functions," others "programs"). At the same time, plans, sections, and diagrams outline spaces and indicate the movements of the different protagonists intruding into the architectural "stage set." The Transcripts' explicit purpose was to transcribe things normally removed from conventional architectural representation, namely the complex relationship between spaces and their use, between the set and the script, between "type" and "program," between objects and events. Their implicit purpose had to do with the 20th-century city.
Bernard Tschumi, The Manhattan Transcripts, 1976-81
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Alva Sondakh, "Architecture Doodles," 2011-2 (via drawingarch)
Makes me wonder if Sondakh has a theory for these "doodles" in a similar manner to that of Bernard Tschumi with his Manhattan Transcripts.
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Marco Evaristti, Ice Cube Project, Ilullissat, Greenland, 2012 (via msnbc)
'An artist with 780 gallons of red paint, three fire hoses and a 20-member crew at his disposal went to Greenland in search of a blank canvas large enough to accommodate his creative impulse. The result is a blood-red iceberg now sitting off the country’s western coast.'
Source: MSNBC