staleness discuss staleness:  ¶ 08:09 9 Comments

  wind me http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1651496.stm
will they take root in UK? thoughts?

http://www.ens.dk/sw15562.asp
will others ever develop to what DK is doing w/ this resource?

these are old posts...but i was clicking around to see where else others are moving forward  ¶ 04:53 9 Comments

  Channel Glass I've decided that channel glass is the current 'cool' material to use in architecture. Cuss or discuss.  ¶ 10:03 14 Comments

  [anti-pleasure] dissertation who really likes writing about architectural theory anyway? can i get some of your thoughts on a possible 'manifesto'? if we are going to get 'real' about this...we need a purpose...we need something binding. something we can all relate to and on. my favorite thing bowne ever told me was: "get out of art school, and get REAL!" we need to get real. i'm talking flyers, posters, possibly 'brand' this school of thought. we all got skillz...  ¶ 14:02 1 Comments

  THE CITY...we are going to the city athe theory of architecture has evolved through one issue as to how one can create perfect single buildings whatever they are. fact against this phenomenon is that there is almost a [complete absense of any coherent theory beyond the one of the single buildings] have we so long accustomed outselves to conceiving of building as separate entities that, today we suffer from an inadequancy of spatial languages to make a meaningful environment? i think we need to investigate the nature of maybe a 'collective form'. i think collective form represents groups of buildings and quasi-buildings [the segment of our cities] collective form is not a collection of unrelated, separate buildings, but of buildings that have reasons to be together.

how will our cities be 'formed' in the future? 'form' rather than 'design' --relating to luis kahn
will they be: compositional? [like most of the US?] megastructure? [like tokyo?] group form? [like most of europe?]

how will our cities hold a capacity for the new rush to re-inhabit the core? will there be a capacity? will we designate certain cities to become mega-node 'supercities'?

sorry...this is a crazy post...maybe we need to break it up into two or three breaks. post up...lets hear some theory...and some optimism.  ¶ 16:21 7 Comments