Everyone is so keen to rate the best or rest in architectural blogging - here's something a little different but following the trend of the successful A to Z of critical regionalism, architechnophilia proudly presents architectural blogs: a listing from A to Z (added to the side pane)
A - ArchiBlog (a portal to architecture on the web)
B - Belly of an Architect
C - the Contemporist (a blog on contemporary design)
D - design duct
E - Elseplace (a blog by archinect editor, Orhan Ayyüce)
F - Floating Podium (Architectural News floating in the Blogosphere)
G - Grassroots Modern (bringing modern design to the masses)
H - Hipercroquis
I - Inhabitat
J - Jetson Green (popular blog about modern green architecture...get it Jetson green)
K - Karrie Jacobs (A blog about cities, buildings, and the spaces in-between)
L - Life Without Buildings (Architecture out of context by architect Jimmy Stamp)
M - Modern (Modern Houses | Modern Architects | Modern Design)
N - Notes on Becoming a Famous Architect
O - Open Form Architecture (practice blog is a both a portfolio and inspiration)
P - Pruned (on landscape architecture and related fields)
Q - Quiet Observations from Archi-Hell (do you really need an explanation for this?)
R - rolu | dsgn (the blog of landscape designers meant more for inspiration than advertisement - it is energetic and enjoyable)
S - Space Invading (an image feed of architecturally-relevant blog posts, created by the fine folks at archinect)
T - Tropolism
U + Um Arquiteto em Brasilia (in Portuguese)
V - Veritas et Venustas (a new urbanist, but I forgive him)
W - the WonderSphere (another archinect regular, Emily Kemper's musings on architecture, sustainability, travel, design and....brunch)
X - find one or start one for inclusion
Y - ykbk (a passionate blog about the act of design through hand drawings)
Z - Zora (a multilingual blog on architecture)
This list is by no means exhausting, nor does it contain the obvious choices (Dezeen, ArchDaily, etc) rather an interesting list that those interested in architecture should take note of.
January 27, 2009
January 26, 2009
January 24, 2009
Banksy
The Afflicted Yard: The Rock from Rickards Bros. on Vimeo.
The Jamaican who revealed Banksy nearly killed by falling artwork... or so the story goes. Watch this documentary of the removal for sale of a piece of artistic treasure.
to purchase
January 23, 2009
blog wunderlust: 23 January 2009
A paper or a half brained homeless solution | somehow a floating hotel doesn't seem so novel | architectural clothes | design hates depression | 24 Rooms Tucked Into One | student green
January 21, 2009
House of the Week 006: Tattoo House
The Tattoo House, designed by Maynard Architects is a simple and boxy extension to an existing 3 bedroom house in Melbourne, Australia. The tight project budget shaped many of the design decisions from the kitchen bench that becomes part of the stair to the use of stickers on the rear façade to provide screening - required by council to reflect heat and glare. The graphic of the screen is composed of trees that dually softens the impact of adding a modern structure to a traditional neighbourhood both at day and night.
January 19, 2009
The Bryghusgrunden Project a mixed use urban intervention (including the Danish Architectural Centre) along the harbour in Copenhagen by OMA
and for the irony of self-reference there is a cameo of the CCTV
RIP - Jan Kaplický (Future Systems)
1937 - 2009, acclaimed architect most noted for the Media Centre at the Lords Cricket Oval and the competition entry for the National Library of Prague died on the streets of the Czech city, in the town that he was born. Kaplický was the founding partner of Future Systems, and with ex-wife Amanda Levete carved a radical, less "machine aesthetic" that was strikingly original and organic.
Checking the Pulse of the Architecture Industry
Archinect has completed the tabulation and analysis of a survey of the current climate of the architecture industry. Not limited to but focusing on the US, the data of the survey provides a detailed look into how the recession has directly affected the employment of architects.
bit.fall
This 2005 installation by Julius Popp displays words selected from the internet via drops of falling water in precise configuration, each word visible only for a second. The artist makes the correspondence between the medium of flowing water to the constant stream of information.
January 16, 2009
blog wunderlust: 16 January 2009
eco-doll house? | BMW designed coffee machine | My Father, My Architect | Foster designed Falcon Jets | Morocco aiming to lead Mediterranean Union of Architects | the end of the Bilbao effect |
January 15, 2009
Starchitects in the Caribbean
Villa D, Zaha Hadid ArchitectsDezeen recently featured the works of Shigeru Ban as part of Dellis Cay, a project consisting of million dollar villas designed by esteemed architects in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The list also includes Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo Kuma, Piero Lissoni, Chad Oppenheim, among others.
I mention this with excitement and reticence. Whilst it is great to have significant works of architecture constructed in the Caribbean - even though they are exclusive private residences, and aside from the historic precedents that exist - I am somewhat concerned with the environmental considerations of these projects.
Maison H , Shigeru BanA cautionary word - starchitects take note due diligence is required.
January 14, 2009
House of the Week 005: McKinley Compound
The McKinley residence consists of four distinct two storey structures connected on the upper levels by bridges. Designed by David Hertz Architects/studio of Environmental Architecture (studio EA), the project aimed - despite its 400 sm footprint - to be energy conscious in its construction and use with 70% of its energy coming from a solar array, recycled concrete, and the use passive ventilation throughout the property.
Although in a dense Los Angeles neighbourhood the residence is able to skillfully soften the lines between inside and out without intrusion of the surroundings. The residence was made popular as it served as the primary setting for the dark comedy series Californication.via
January 13, 2009
January 11, 2009
January 9, 2009
blog wunderlust: 09 January 2009
collapsing banks | adaptive reuse - coal mine | passive living: Germany | Kaufmann named top residential architect | a + t in pdf | design & the economic recession or why design needs a recession
January 7, 2009
House of the Week 004: Casa San Isidro
This stylish modern residence was built in Buenos Aires, Argentina and designed by KLM (Kelly Lestard Maldonado Architects). The 350 sq.m building rises out of its context to take advantage of the river views in the distance - whilst the ground floor in contrast opens its elevation entirely of the lot's green space allowing a visual flow from outside to in.
January 6, 2009
Fish tales
This recently completed Fish Market by Global Architectural Development is located on a triangular site in one of the most populated and diverse communities in Istanbul, Turkey. The roof of the market - a concrete shell - is both iconic and pragmatic, a flash against the traditional context whilst providing a column-free space for the demands of the interior.
January 5, 2009
Renovation Nation: Levine Residence
Television broadcast of Renovation Nation (Discovery channel) featuring the renovation of a traditional LA bungalow into a environmentally sensitive and sustainable home for and by Jeremy Levine Design
episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 4b
January 2, 2009
ReCUA (Re: Caribbean Urbanism + Architecture) have recently won first prize in the Landscape Architecture category at the IX Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Santo Domingo, with a project in San Fernando, Trinidad designed in collaboration with HCP architects limited. ReCUA were in charged with the site planning and landscape design.
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