modern architecture and design

[GL]

that certainly does seem to be the case, flying under the gaydar that is.

since you're an architecture student, what's been the most interesting thing you've discovered thus far in your studies? if you don't mind me asking...

 

[metta]

if we're talking frank lloyd wright my all time favorite is falling water...

That one has always been one of my favorites. It makes me wish that they would have built my home over the creek behind my home. My backyard looks over the creek at a really nice angle so that I'm able to easily look down it but having the house being right over it would have been even better. But the army corp of engineers would and conservation groups would not have allowed it in the first place. ohhhh well...I can't complain. I feel pretty fortunate for what I do have.

 

[justgofaster]

That one has always been one of my favorites. It makes me wish that they would have built my home over the creek behind my home. My backyard looks over the creek at a really nice angle so that I'm able to easily look down it but having the house being right over it would have been even better. But the army corp of engineers would and conservation groups would not have allowed it in the first place. ohhhh well...I can't complain. I feel pretty fortunate for what I do have.

One of the criticisms of Falling Water that you sometimes hear is that you can't actually see the creek from the house (you have to lean over a balcony). The Kaufmans who commissioned what became Falling Water loved the property because they enjoyed going there to picnic and watch the creek. They assumed that the house would be designed with a view of the creek, to give them the feel of their picnics there.

FLW was famous for giving clients not what they asked for, but what he thought they should have asked for.

 

[justgofaster]

Addendum. Falling Water was recently entirely rebuilt. The cantilevered balconies were dangerously leaning, and would have collapsed. Wright's original design for the balconies was incompetent. The Pittsburgh engineering firm which built them realized this, and reinforced them with steel girders which Wright had not specified in his plans. This caused Wright to go into a hissy fit, and he refused to cooperate or talk to people on the project for weeks after this. Had the balconies been built as Wright designed them, they would have collapsed very soon after the house was built.

 

[Pathicus]

< architect (working in a different profession nowadays though).

To me architecture is porn. Seriously, good design gives me an orgasm

Will post a short-list of my favourites in the next days. Now it's time for bed. Totally jet lagged...

 

[Absolut]

< architect (working in a different profession nowadays though).

To me architecture is porn. Seriously, good design gives me an orgasm

I am totally the same way. Sometimes when I'm driving through Chicago, New York, or even St. Louis I almost crash because I'm like "I SEE A TOWER CRANE! What's going on, what's being built, how many floors have been completed, ahhhhh!"



Speaking of designs, this massive 2,000 foot building is now under construction in Chicago. The Chicago Spire will be the tallest building in the United States for quite some time, imho. Whether you like it or not (I think it's fucking brilliant, and Calatrava is one of my favs anyway) it is pretty impressive!

I also really like this rendering, even if it isn't 100% accurate.

 

[GL]

< architect (working in a different profession nowadays though).

To me architecture is porn. Seriously, good design gives me an orgasm

Will post a short-list of my favourites in the next days. Now it's time for bed. Totally jet lagged...

oh thank god... i thought i was the only person who got that way.

 

[ComNavFdgPk]

Okay, does anyone know why the Kaufmann family were such supporters of Frank Lloyd Wright (other than the fact that he was a fuckin' genius)? He designed a house for them just outside Palm Springs and Falling Water was also designed for that family.

 

[texan_slant]

Same here! Good design totally gives me an orgasm. Everywhere I go, I notice buildings. I also dig good urbanplanning and also interior design - most of it sucks and was never given any forethought.

Wherever I go, I constantly ask myself how I could make things better if I could be the one to change things.

BTW - this thing in Chicago, though impressive, looks like a giant vibrator.

 

[BluesDog]

the Calatrava design for the new symphony hall in Atlanta is a magnificent work of art--- I think that they still looking for the funds and it would be criminal if they come up short and this magnificent building isn't realized

 

[flyingfree]

Santiago Calatrava's design for the transit hub at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan has been delayed 2 years and is now scheduled to open in 2011.

 

[ashashash]

Maybe it's just me but I love marble. absolutely love it. everywhere, anywhere.

 

[Horschallen]

That one has always been one of my favorites. It makes me wish that they would have built my home over the creek behind my home. My backyard looks over the creek at a really nice angle so that I'm able to easily look down it but having the house being right over it would have been even better. But the army corp of engineers would and conservation groups would not have allowed it in the first place. ohhhh well...I can't complain. I feel pretty fortunate for what I do have.

Hey! I live 21 miles from this Kaufman House aka the Fallingwater.

 

[Horschallen]

Okay, does anyone know why the Kaufmann family were such supporters of Frank Lloyd Wright (other than the fact that he was a fuckin' genius)? He designed a house for them just outside Palm Springs and Falling Water was also designed for that family.

FLW had charms... lots of it and chutzpah to go with them. I am one of his biggest fans and have come to learn a lot about how he deals with people and his clients.

 

[Atomw7]

I created this yesterday, does it count?

 

[GL]

^ that's really nice!

are you an architecture student? or is it a hobby?

 

[Atomw7]

^ that's really nice!

are you an architecture student? or is it a hobby?

Neither, a living.
I haven't gone to college yet, but I will in a year or so. Most likely I'll go to an art school for 3D Modeling, 3D Texturing and Marketing. Or something like that.

 

[thewiz]

Same here! Good design totally gives me an orgasm. Everywhere I go, I notice buildings. I also dig good urbanplanning and also interior design - most of it sucks and was never given any forethought.

Wherever I go, I constantly ask myself how I could make things better if I could be the one to change things.

BTW - this thing in Chicago, though impressive, looks like a giant vibrator.

Every city has to have their phalic! DC has the Washington monument and now Chicago will go one bigger! Ha...ha...!

I love architecture. When I go to a city, you'll usually see me walking around with my face up in the air. I'm not stuck up, I just love to look at the details on buildings and fascades! In the 1800's -- particulary the latter part -- tin was beautifully stamped in so many shapes. When I was a city manager and we were restoring the downtown, we were trying to restore the city council chambers at the same point. We went through more than 20 buildings and each stamp was different!

Modern architecture is equally striking. Usually the lines, the visual, and senses are involved (water, sight). It is interesting that I find so many different forms beautiful. When I was just in Las Vegas, the neon and use of lights struck me; yes it is overpowering at times, but after studying and seeing neon made, it is an art form in and of itself.

Some of the old hotels in Chicago are striking with the gold leaf. The Ionia Theater used a style after the Roxy in New York. I helped restore it and volunteered regularly at it.

Okay, call me a nerd, a geek...I just like beautiful things (men probably at the top of the list!)

 

[tommyj]

DC has two phallics..Monument & Air Force one

 

[thewiz]

^ whew...at first I thought you were going to say me!