Eric Baldwin
French theater has radically transformed over the last millennium. As structures for plays, musical concerts and diverse productions, these spaces are formed around relationships between subject and object, audience and performance.
Deserts demand spatial awareness. As largely desolate environments, these arid lands reframe how we gather and dwell.
These designs use context as borrowed landscapes, creating dynamic spaces that embody energy, focus and movement.
Boathouses embody energy. Celebrating rhythm, repetition and craft, these finely tuned structures p rovide space for training and storage to engage with the outdoors.
Renowned for modernist works and incredible landscapes, the state’s best contemporary residences are inspired by their context.
There are many parallels between music and architecture. Each art explores ideas of rhythm and struc ture, order and space. They are intimately connected to human experience and sequence as acts of orchestration and assembly. Architecture has long been designed to support the experience of concerts and musical events, from the acoustics of gothic churches to…
Designed with a common relationship to the outdoors, these projects trade ornamentation and free-flo wing forms for rational detailing and structural innovation.
The following eight projects show how careful attention to building envelopes can encourage a weavin g together of people and place.
Aquariums are designed around new perspectives. Allowing observers to look at their world through a fresh lens, these projects use view, light and enclosure to orchestrate discovery. Displaying water-dwelling animals and plants, aquariums come in widely different sizes. Both private and commercial in nature, they may range from simple tanks to large public aquaria. Housing…