Showing posts with label wunderlust. Show all posts
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Monday, March 26, 2012

blog wunderlust : 26th March 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, March 26, 2012

We all see more of architecture than any other art. Every street is a gallery of architect's work
CE Montague


The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work | The Influence of Bauhaus on Architecture in Early Palestine and Israel | Michael Kimmelman Will Not Play Your Architecture Games | iPad App to Replace Printed Blueprints? | Saving Rudolph, Once Again and the Two-Year Renovation of Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat is Complete | New Getty initiative aims to boost preservation of modern architecture | Calatrava's Peace Bridge to open tomorrow today in Calgary | BIG is working on a new residential tower in Miami

last word: This is the most colorful and fun police station in the world

Monday, March 19, 2012

blog wunderlust : 19th March 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, March 19, 2012

Architecture, however complex and subtle it may be in its more sophisticated forms, can begin with something as simple as sitting on a sand-dune looking out to sea.
Simon Unwin

'Postcards From the Architect', An Architect's Take On Famous Landmarks | An architect's hat trick | if a man tells you his favorite book is The Fountainhead, run away | Critics' reactions to London's new bus | Alvaro Siza in Machu Picchu | New Digicel Building Downtown Kingston – A Catalyst for Development? | Moleskine Inspiration & Process in Architecture Series | Tom Kundig on the Frey House II | The Shapes of Hardcore Architecture | Visions for the Last Section of the High Line | Boldface Buildings in the Cold Light of Now

Last Word: Don't forget the FUN in function

Monday, March 12, 2012

Blog Wunderlust : 12th March 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, March 12, 2012

The only way to make truly sustainable architecture is to connect our buildings to nature - not insulate them from it!
Rachel Armstrong


Historic Building Lies In Ruins | Cities are banking on the arts | An urban world (UNICEF population projections) | Habitat 67 wins LEGO contest and (LEGO) architect| Can designers fix America’s suburban foreclosure challenges? | (video) Man Moves Huge Blocks! | Library Parks Foster Community in Colombia | Architects push to make Denver's Santa Fe Arts District more pedestrian friendly | Secret City: The Illegal Architecture of Tawian | Peter Marino Likes Playing Bad Cop


last word: women architects - f’ing cool

Monday, March 5, 2012

Blog Wunderlust : 5th March 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, March 05, 2012

"Fashion is architecture. It's a matter of proportions"
Coco Chanel

Engineer Calls Chicago's Aqua Tower "Architectural Pornography" | Snow Drawings | Norihiko Dan: harmonizing earth and architecture | architectural hair | Work Wear: Office Style at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | The little Pritzker Committee that Almost Could | Architect Uses Ancient Techniques To Cool Modern Building in India | Signature Design by Gehry | Why Don’t We Read About Architecture? | Will Pritzker Be Pivotal for China? | the Value of Architecture

last word: 2012 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism

Monday, February 27, 2012

blog wunderlust : 27th February 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, February 27, 2012

If we would lay a new foundation for urban life, we must understand the historic nature of the city
Lewis Mumford


Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making | Anywhere working: Finding the office of the future | Lib at Large: Frank Lloyd Wright's long lost Marin dog house | Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature | Private, Public, or Common: Who Owns Space? | RIP: Luis Mansilla | Bauhaus-Style Collages Prevail in 2012 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship Competition | How A Tiny Central American Country Is Getting Richer And Saving The Environment

last word: Chinese Architect Wang Shu Awarded 2012 Pritzker Prize

Monday, February 20, 2012

blog wunderlust : 20th February 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, February 20, 2012

The purpose of good design is to ornament existence, not to substitute for it
George Nelson
Norma Merrick Sklarek dies; pioneering African American architect | Marseille's Cité Radieuse damaged by fire | A Contemporary Retreat With a 100-Year-Old Soul | Architect who designed and built home charged in firefighter death | Calatrava undertakes first project in Taiwan | modernist architect Eugene Weston III dies at 87 | Back from Dead, Damien Hirst to build 500 eco-homes in Britain | Feline Modernism | 20,000 LEGOs to Create a Playfully Pixelated New York City Apartment |

last word: Architect Valentines and For the Love of Architecture

Monday, February 13, 2012

blog wunderlust : 13th February 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, February 13, 2012

A building can be designed to satisfy 'by the month' with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction 'by the moment,' with the thrill of a lover
Richard Neutra
Photograph from the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine


India's richest shrine goes green | Giant Binoculars Everywhere! | How Plywood Revolutionized Design And Changed The World (No, Really!) | The Organic Architecture of the Smith Mansion | Muslim America moves away from the minaret | How four Chinese-American architects helped shape Los Angeles | Why I became an architect - part II | The architecture meltdown | Encyclopedia of Home Improvement, 1970 | Ai Weiwei [Herzog & de Meuron and Engineers Arup] to Design 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

last word: Tomorrowland - Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan.
Rich in oil and other mineral resources, Kazakhstan has lavished billions on the new capital, inviting some of the world's leading architects to showcase their work on the Left Bank of the Esil River, which separates the administrative "new city" from the older, mostly Soviet built district on the Right Bank. The results are eclectic, visually arresting, and not to everyone's taste. But love it or hate it, Astana is here to stay.

Monday, February 6, 2012

blog wunderlust : 6th February 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, February 06, 2012

And perhaps architecture has always wanted to be a theatre of memories
Umberto Eco

Think Outside the Cube: Why the Office Isn't the Best Workspace | ‘Every year, more and more women design larger buildings, win competitions, run the RIBA and become new role models’ | Irishman makes "billion-euro home" of shredded notes | Is There Anything Marc Newson Hasn’t Designed? | Seattle woman “marries” building to protest its demolition | moby's photo blog of strange and beautiful architecture in los angeles | 5 fresh visions for Navy Pier

last word: Tire-toi une bûche' an installation by Julie Tremblay and Appareil Architecture

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email

Monday, January 30, 2012

blog wunderlust : 30th January 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, January 30, 2012

Making More Livable Cities With Shade Stands, Rainwater Collection, And Closed Streets | Damien Hirst (1965–2012): In Memoriam | [film] Firstsite by Rafael Viñoly Architects | 10 Green Building Predictions for 2012 | Havana: Bracing for a Boom | Kanye West's DONDA wants to 'pick up where Steve Jobs left off' | Singularity is plural: The Optimism of Bjarke Ingels and Ray Kurzweil | Architectural Dissidence | Architecture Sounds Dirty | Submarine City

last word: Architecture Without Architects - What Ancient Structures Reveal About Collaborative Design

Monday, January 23, 2012

blog wunderlust : 23rd January 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, January 23, 2012

Our experience and sensibilities can evolve through reflective and silent analysis. To open ourselves to perception we must transcend the mundane urgency of “things to do”. We must try to access this inner life which reveals the luminous intensity of the world.
Steven Holl

Design as a Verb | Renzo Piano gets museum airborne | Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion | A Lisbon Architect Brings His Skills to MoMA | 15 iPhone Apps Every Architect Must Have | Anne Tyng, Theorist of Architecture, Dies at 91 | Architect Devin Louis Miller Completes 25th No-Fee Project in War-Torn Country | Mark Dowie: What’s A Park For? | Lessons from the Front Lines of Social Design | architecture Ryan Gosling

last word: Santo Domingo Mayor vows Colonial Zone Facelift

Monday, January 16, 2012

blog wunderlust: 16th January 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, January 16, 2012

Supply and demand regulate architectural form
Adolf Loos 

 Local architects are incapacitated | Modern dollhouse furniture | Architecture: Reading between the Lines | Fairy Tales Seen Through the Lens of Architecture | Choose the most beautiful building in Boston | Beautiful Brutalism versus Art Deco | 1,000 Door Building in South Korea | Fictional Landscapes | USGBC/AIA announce Architecture for Humanity Sustainability Design Fellow | Push for greener, leafier spaces on Parisian roofs | Food Meets Architecture at the James Beard Awards

Last word: Hunters and gatherers - a review of the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

blog wunderlust : 9th January 2012

Posted by MAKMU ta On Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes 
Marcel Proust 

Make things with your hands | Top 10: World's most spectacular modern churches | Parklets, The Tiny Parks of San Francisco | 7 Of The World's Best Nano Houses | Joys of Earthquake-Free architecture | 11 Best Architecture Moments of 2011 | Top 10 Most Viewed Conceptual Architecture of 2011 | A Bubble of Your Own | Koolhaas’s Defense of Generic Architecture | Top 6 Green Architecture Stories of 2011 | Squiggly Line Drawings

last word: The Mathematics of Lego

Monday, December 26, 2011

blog wunderlust : 26th December 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, December 26, 2011

After a brief with a client [...] I can't stop thinking about the project. The subject keeps circulating through both hemispheres of my brain. I dream it, observe, think, research. And sketch profusely
Karim Rashid
Museum of Abandoned Mines by Brandon Mosley

Interview with Star Architect Rem Koolhaas | Starbucks Opens New Reclamation Drive Thru Made From Recycled Shipping Containers | Will British people ever think in metric? | Ideology Through Geometry | Mine Plug: Museum of Abandoned Mines | X-Ray Murals Reveal the Architectural Footprint of Razed Buildings | 3d sculptures from scrap wood | Ikea Hopes To Build An Entire London Neighbourhood | Gingerbread Geodesic Dome |

last word: Happy Boxing day everyone I found this video of world renown architect Alvaro Siza singing the Beatles

Monday, December 19, 2011

blog wunderlust : 19th December 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, December 19, 2011

Architects are the moderators between the objective world of building and the poetic world of living
Owen Rose

image via BigStock

Rebuild Downtown Kingston Block By Block | How should we design the cities of our dreams? | 3 Things You Can Do To Combat Climate Change | Building with wood - 2,500-home scheme for Montego Bay | Some see Twin Towers blast in architect's design | Strange Windows: Draw Buildings, Build Drawings (part 2) | Gingerbread Modern | Ai Weiwei runner up for Time's Person of the Year | Stacy-Ann Dennison Explores Kirigami

last word: Herman Hertzberger to Receive the 2012 Royal Gold Medal

Monday, December 12, 2011

blog wunderlust : 12th December 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, December 12, 2011

We need to go out into the real world and experience it in order to create architecture that is rooted in reality
Tadao Ando

Top 100 Public Spaces in the US and Canada | Pornotopia: Architecture & Sexuality | Modern Playhouses | 3D printing makes SimCity a little less Sim | Central Helsinki to be skyscraper-free zone? | The Trouble With Church Preservation | Stadium air conditioning in doubt for 2022 World Cup in Qatar despite fears over extreme heat | Tactile Architecture: Does it Matter? | Cleveland Turns Uptown Into New Downtown | The best architecture of 2011: Jonathan Glancey's choice

last word: Should the ‘creative class’ be more rural in the developing world?

Monday, December 5, 2011

blog wunderlust : 5th December 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, December 05, 2011

Caribbean architecture is not identified by its appearance, rather by its spirit
Dr. Rohan Bailey

Bloomingdale library rape victim sues architect, contractor | Hip Cities That Think About How They Work | The Occupy Movement and the New Public Space | Interview: Chinese architect Ma Yansong | Architect Who Lives & Works in 78 Square Foot Apartment in Manhattan | Saving Time - Phillip Martin On A Mission To Maintain 'Heritage Clocks' Across Jamaica | My Father’s City & Poetry’s Urban Landscape | Unesco threatens Liverpool |

last word: 12th Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture is now open for submissions

Monday, November 28, 2011

blog wunderlust : 28th November 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, November 28, 2011

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there
Jane Jacobs

How I Survived The Housing Slowdown | Jane Jacobs’ Masterpiece, An urban legacy in need of renewal | Austrian Embassy, Jakarta’s first green building | Why Use Ipe when you can have Black Locust? | Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing | The Architecture Lover’s Manifesto | world's lightest material | 9/11 Museum Is Delayed | Classical Piano and Modern Design: Sundays with Rafael Viñoly | FIBandCO win Gold in Paris

last word: Occupy the streets - highlighting the subversive need for a shared reality of values and demands

Monday, November 21, 2011

blog wunderlust : 21st November 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, November 21, 2011


A lot of the best design is generated when you have significant constraints
Andreas Stavropoulous

Architecture- A Profession at War With Itself | Ingenious Remodeling of 1960s London House Wins 2011 RIBA Manser Medal | Newspaper Vendor To Architect | Jeppe Utzon creates thoughtful designs in Denmark | Toronto's glass condos face short lifespan | The Future is Now – A Letter to Arup | Americans Are Now Living In a Society That Rivals Orwell’s 1984 | Affordable Housing That Doesn't Scream 'Affordable' | Cleveland's New Deal-Era Public Housing Posters |

last word: Jamaica Has Many Architects, But They're Unrecognised

Monday, November 14, 2011

blog wunderlust : 14th November 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, November 14, 2011

Wherever the city is functioning below standard, architecture takes action. It takes the place of the city's spontaneous and organic functioning; it is a prosthesis, architecture is always the place of, in the place of.
Wiel Arets

Learning from Passive House | Africa’s First Plastic Bottle House Rises in Nigeria | Zaha to build her own home in San Diego | The Cult Satirical Design Bloggers Play Guest Editors With the Nowness Archive | Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Transform Your Public Spaces Now | Lessons of design learned from nature | Designer Living: A place to reflect in Amsterdam | David Chipperfield to curate 2012 Venice Biennale | In Ontario, Some Like it Hot

last word: Instead of buying kitchen gadgets, why not share?

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email

Monday, November 7, 2011

blog wunderlust : 7th November 2011

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, November 07, 2011

Drawing is a tool that helps me design and then build. For me, it is a way to test an idea or prove a point, to make the unclear clear, and to move the internal (subjective) to the external (objective).
Ann Armstrong

Cuba legalizes sale, purchase of private property | if architects... | Habitat for Humanity & the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to build 100 homes in Haiti | House in Horinouchi, Japan by Mizuishi Architect Atelier | Built-in Obsolescence | Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation rebuilds, seeks CEO | What did you want to be when you grew up? | Getting an architecture degree is expensive. Is it worth it in a recession? | The Pritzker Prize is headed to China | archi-kids

last word: Interviews with 4 Irish Female Architects Shaping the Future of architectural practice.

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