Showing posts with label mid-century modernism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mid-century modernism. Show all posts

October 28, 2013

blog wunderlust: 28th October 2013

The great thing about being an architect is that you can walk into your dreams
Harold E Wagoner

(c) Juliusz Sokolowski
Keep Talking Kanye: An Architect’s Defense of Kanye West | Breaking Architecture Out Of The Echo Chamber: Submit Now To Star In Architecture Reality Show | Science takes architectural history to another dimension | A house with a drive-thru art gallery: It's actually a thing | London Architect Designs a Family of Sci-Fi Looking Superyachts | Erich Remash opens Midcentury home to the forest | Scent and the City |

last word: Setting The Tone - [Architect] Robin Baston Speaks About Designing The Set Of A Father Ho Lung Production

October 16, 2013

House of the Week 172: Cocoon House

In a sense this is an anti-social building. It makes no attempt to blend to blend with it's environment [...] the intent was to demonstrate that harmony between the work of nature and the work of man can be brought about by clearly differentiating between the two
Paul Rudolph

The two bedroom, one bathroom cottage designed by Paul Rudoulph for a client H. R. Healy in 1950 sits on the edge of the river banks of Siesta Key in Sarasota. The concave roof was designed to drain rainwater and was constructed using a built-up spray-on process typical of cocooning disused US naval ships.
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