“Architecture is a borrower,” Eric Owen Moss said on Wednesday night, during a conversation with Fra nk Gehry at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (better known as SCI-Arc). “It gloms onto events and speculations in the arts and culture and science.” Moss raised a compelling point on the varied sources of architectural movements and nomenclatures.…
A household name in contemporary architecture circles, Sam Jacob recently sat down to talk with Arch itizer about his ongoing work with students and drawing in the digital age. We mostly discussed his studio at Yale last semester, taught in collaboration with his FAT buddy Sean Griffiths, and how that was informed by broader notions about…
Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, was a prolific architectural thinker. His experimenta l drawings show speculative domestic architectures: houses and pueblo-like villages with oddly sloped roofs, multiple off-set levels and wild color schemes, always looking as if they were on the verge of falling over. They were something like a cross between an…
Although humans have long looked to nature for inspiration, the concept of biomimicry has only been around since the middle of the 20th century. Decades before Otto Schmitt coined the term, Rene Binet’s Esquisses Décoratives (1904) predicts speculative designs that prefigure many of the forms we see today. This largely forgotten anthology of illustrations, viewable…
National libraries are amongst the most symbolic icons of modern-day countries
M.C. Escher used to do it with his drawings — leaving us bewildered about where those staircases rea lly led, and how those drawings didn’t disrupt the space-time continuum. His drawings are particularly impressive because they were made by hand; these days, architectural optical illusions are far easier to pull off with the aid of computers.…
GPT+ Architecture Design won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture+Technology category with BIOTI C-TECH SKYSCRAPER CITY. This futuristic urban skyline features high-rise buidings that adapt to surrounding environmental conditions to create energy.
Allsteel, a manufacturer of cutting-edge workplace environments, crafts products that were unheard o f just a decade ago. A few examples: Hedge, an angled partition wall with built-in shelf specifically designed for leaning on; Rise, a modular lounge made of tiered, rectangular seats; and Mind-Share, seating with a super-high backrest that doubles as a screen. All…