Whilst on Shigeru Ban ....

Here is a link to David Neustein's recent article on some aspect's of Ban's work. An interesting article. Be sure to read the comments too.

Musaschino Art University Museum and Library

Given that a few of you are looking at providing library facilites, I thought i'd draw your attention to a few examples:

First up, Sou Fujimoto's Musaschino Art University Museum and Library.

I would have thought there'd be a lot of info online, but I can't find as much as expected. One good blog for coverage is HIC*, an architecture blog that appears to be from Barcelona, probably associated with Jordi Bardia. I have not known of this blog, but it looks good (with work by Claus en Kaan, Josep Lluís Mateo, Sergison Bates and others.

Here is the link to their Post on Fujimoto's library. What's especially lovely about this idea is that the built fabric of the library is shelving, an idea that arguably ties back to some of Shigeru Ban's Furniture Houses and perhaps even to Henri Labrouste.

Tom Kundig 2

I little while ago I posted links to work by Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig.

Amber of Constructive Dialogue has pointed on that there is a website about a house by Kundig (the Maxon House) and a series of films about it's procurement.

Dwell magazine also has a blog about the house.

House & Atelier Bow-Wow

Through the link to the Hiroo Apartments video below, I came across a website with construction photos of the House & Atelier Bow-Wow.

Drawings and photos also at Archdaily.

Hiroo Apartments by Kumiko Inui 2

Linseen has found a link to a short video of these apartments.

Photo below from Kumiko Inui's flickr site.

Marcio Kogan

Plataforma Arquitectura has just published a few images of a project by Marcio Kogan. This doesn't relate to your project, I just like his work.

Lecture tonight - Paisajes Emergentes

People, Colombian Architects Paisajes Emergentes are delivering a lecture at Sydney University tonight (Monday 18 April). Their work is very good and I think this lecture would be worthwhile. In addition to their website, photos of their work can be seen at their Flickr page.

Rolex Centre, Lausanne

Pedro Kok has loaded a nice video of SANAA's Rolex Centre in Lausanne onto his site.

Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland from Pedro Kok on Vimeo.

Hiroo Apartment by Kumiko Inui

I've been trying to find you images of the Hiroo Apartments by Kumiko Inui as this project deals with many of the problems with your site. Essentially, vertical circulation occupies a very large percentage of the available floor plate. I cannot find the photos of the interior, but have found plans and sections through Architectural Record.

Maison de Verre

A few images of the Maison de Verre (mentioned last week) by Pierre Chareau & Bernard Bijvoet from the New York Times

Martí Guixé's GAT FOG

Again, text from Martí Guixé's website:

GAT FOG PARTY
Gin and Tonic Fog Party
Artificial indoor fog made of Gin and Tonic
Gat Fog party is an artificial indoor meteorological phenomenon based in weather engineering for "cultural farming" purposes.

Performed CASCO, Utrech September 2004
Performed in Spazio Lima in 2005
Performed in Bilbao by Bombay Design Circuit 2009
Next: Valencia, Barcelona, Malaga and Madrid during 2009 and 2010

Martí Guixé's Food Facility

Amsterdam, 2005

Text from Martí Guixé's website:

Food Facility Amsterdam

Food Facility is a prototype for a Business model.
It comes from a commission of Mediamatic, on the idea to create a food-related project in the context of new media.
Food Facility is then a Platform, which mainly mixes Outsourcing, search engines and networking to improve as much as possible the infrastructure of any conventional restaurant in economical terms, and reflecting the way we perceive reality and all-day in the new media and internet era.

Food Facility is a restaurant with more than 9 Kitchens and lots of drinks.

Also see Mediamatic for more photos, signage etc

atelier d'architecture autogéréé (aaa)

atelier d'architecture autogéréé (aaa) gave a very good lecture at the Rights to the City symposium. They are giving another lecture on Wednesday evening at Sydney Uni. Sadly, this is at the same time as the regular lectures at UTS (though I don't know what is on this week).

The Right to the City 2

You all missed a very good lecture and symposium. There was a lot of discussion that would have assisted you with this studio. The exhibition is still on and the publication is available for $10 (student/unwaged) or $15 (waged) at the exhibition or online.

David Harvey's essay The Right to the City is re-printed in the publication or can be viewed at the New Left Weekly website.

Margaret Crawford's essay on Harvey's essay (in the publication) is also worth a look.

Some Posts from last year

Please look back through the blog to find posts from last year that are relevant to you.

After discussions yesterday, some of these will include:

How big are things?
Planning Controls
Building Code of Australia (BCA)
Some info on Planning & Building regulations
A quick note on Lifts
&
How thick are walls?

The Right to the City - lecture and symposium

An exhibition, keynote lecture and symposium have been organized for the Tin Sheds Gallery very soon. The title, The Right to the City is taken from David Harvey (who you may want to read / listen to - more later). The keynote lecture is by Margaret Crawford who is very worthwhile and the symposium looks interesting. Friends from Bababa International will be participating.

Now, back briefly to David Harvey. Mr Harvey, in addition to his other work, has run a course reading Karl Marx's Capital Volume 1. It's all available on-line. What i've listened to has been very enjoyable and worthwhile.

Cartsen Höller

A few pics of the installation by Carsten Höller at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. These and more pictures and information at Designboom.

Also see video footage of his installation at the Tate Modern at Youtube.

Travel Guides

Caitlin (still trying to remember names) asked yesterday about architecture travel guides. My experience is that the on-line guides are not yet sufficiently comprehensive. There is an understandable emphasis on buildings that were finished 5 minutes ago. Of the on-line guides I've found, I think mimoa.eu is perhaps the best. When we travel, what we tend to do is look through history books and note all the buildings we'd like to see in each city. Banister Fletcher is pretty good for pre-modern stuff in the Western World. Spiro Kostof's History of Architecture is good too. Major cities also often have good guides. Jones & Woodward's excellent Guide to the Architecture of London for example, though a new book for each new city would be an expensive option.

Bookshop by Isay Weinfeld

The bookshop I mentioned yesterday is the Livraria da Vila bookshop by Isay Weinfeld in São Paulo. Photos by Leonardo Finotti at Archdaily

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Lovely photos by Pedro Kok of the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego by Eduardo Souto de Moura at Designboom

Borromini, Sant' Ivo

and 2 images of Borromini's Sant' Ivo alla Sapienza. Photograph of the dome mine, photo of the church facade from the courtyard from Wikipedia.

If anyone has more interest in Borromini (who wouldn't!), Anthony Blunt's biography is very good.

Borromini, San Carlo

I have a recollection of mentioning Francesco Borromni last week. Here is my photograph of the dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane plus a plan.

Tom Kundig

Also worth looking at Tom Kundig's work at Olson Kundig

Steven Holl & Vito Acconci, Storefront for Art & Architecture, NYC

On transformable buildings, have a look at this one. Image from Steven Holl's website.

Sliding House by DRMM

A few of you yesterday pointed out this project by DRMM. There is a movie of the house at the Wallpaper* website and a bit of info at Dezeen (where the following photo is from).

Achille Castiglioni 3

This is the fellow who made an architectural model from Parmigiano (cheese). You can see this model when you are next in Milan by visiting his former office, now a museum (hopefully - it may not get funding to stay open). There is also a good website dedicated to his work at achillecastiglioni.it . This is a photo from a visit to the studio last year:

Ensemble Studio / Antón García-Abril 3

I forgot that i had some photos of a model of the Casa Hemerscopium on display at the Venice Biennale last year:

Smiljan Radic, Mestizo Restaurant

Have a look this restaurant by Smiljan Radic.

Ensemble Studio / Antón García- Abril 2

Casa Hemeroscopium by Antón García- Abril / Ensamble Studio
(from Plataforma Arquitectura)

Miller House

One of the C20's finest houses. By Eero Saarinen with interiors by Alexander Girard and a very very fine garden by Dan Kiley. soon to be part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. First photo by Balthazar Korab.

Christian Kerez

Studio Banana has conducted an interview with Christian Kerez (also discussed briefly last week):

Villa Savoye

A few of my photos of the Villa Savoye (discussed last week):