Sometimes an artist, designer or architect tries to rethink a common question. In this case it is “What is a door?” Austrian artist Klemens Torggler came up with this sort of origami door that splits in half and folds up. Instead of sliding on a track or a pivot on the corner, the panels fold […]
A new app, called “Build with Chrome” allows you to build a lego building online with as many blocks as you need at no cost! Yahoo! And then once you are satisfied with your structure, you place it in the world, on an empty area of a Google Map, that is made of Legos. YOu […]
107 reasons to be an architect. Not just 10. Or even 100. We are offering 107 good reasons that you might consider to choose this career. Our friend, architect Randy Deutsch, wrote all of these ideas down out of his architect head, to convince you that this is a great field to study. Maybe you […]
Located in Moscow, Russia, Red Square is a giant plaza paved in reddish bricks. But the name Red Square is not due to that color. The Russian name for it is Krásnaya Plóshchaď which translates to mean red square. Krásnaya also means beautiful. The red color in the name does not relate to communism, as […]
Christy Hale wrote a book about architecture for kids that we admire greatly – titled [amazon_link id=”1600606512″ target=”_blank” ]Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building, here[/amazon_link] – with illustrations showing kids actively playing with different materials to build structures. On the opposite page of those illustrations there are fine illustrations showing real buildings in the world […]
This book [amazon_link id=”0847839443″ target=”_blank” ] An Eames Primer: Revised Edition[/amazon_link] was written about designers Ray and Charles Eames by their grandson, Eames Demetrios. It is an excellent introduction to the work of this dynamic duo. Charles and Ray designed all sorts of great things: films, toys, museums and a whole lot of chairs, some […]
At the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, a building sits underneath a giant tube, through which the Chicago “L” train travels. We are not talking Youtube, but an actual structure in the shape of a tube, atop a building, with a speeding train going through it. (Although there is this good Youtube video about […]
We thought this little coloring page was simple and fun. Print out a few copies and color them using 2, 3, 4 or 10 colors. Different colors can make the same pattern appear so different. When you are done, wrap some gifts and reuse the paper! Download the houses drawing. Thank you to the folks […]
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, or so we hear. And it makes sense. But maybe more importantly, they should not walk around naked. That is, unless your glass house is built in a forest, where other people are not around. Then you can feel like you live purely in nature with the greenery, […]
Artist Dominique Pétrin likes to install insanely colored and patterned silkscreens boldly on to architectural spaces. She explained that her main influences are “the Muppet Show, Liberace, Catholic churches where I grew up and Dario Argento’s movies.” These influences have turned her into a kind of sorcerer of color and shapes, dropping patterns that are […]