a short tale of revolution

        

In 1974 a group of students from AA school founded the "Architects Revolutionary Council" (ARC) calling for a destruction of the RIBA (regarded as responsible for the malaise of architecture and cities), and the establishment of "an international movement towards community architecture".  The ARC's philosophy was based around the belief that should immediately cease working "only for a rich powerful minority or the bureaucratic dictatorship of Central and Local Governments and offer their skills and services for the local community". 

sweet things in the courtyard

[all pictures taken in private residential courtyards in Hamburg and Lubeck]

Master of collapse

Minoru Yamasaki_World Trade Center, New York 1970-71 [collapsed on 11 Sep 2001 under terrorist attack]

Minoru Yamasaki_Pruitt-Igoe housing project, St. Louis 1954 [demolished for its unacceptable conditions in 1972]

http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/

merry xmas!!!

christmas tree by UGO architecture + design 

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

notes of the day

Two different approaches to the process of addition 

analytic approach to addition _

whole as a summation/(better) subdivision, of/in proportional parts
form as a composition of modular elements

strict form

synthetic approach to addition _

whole as an incremental addition of scaled similarities, from integer to infinitesimal
form as emergence of a processuality within a structure
differentiation within repetition

free form  [paradigm of formal revolution]

An epiphany of the oblique

Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, Studies on oblique space;
Architecture Principe, 1966

BRT Architekten, Dockland Office Building;
 Hamburg, 2006