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 […]
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Pen Drawings of Architecture
The City out my Window is a sweet book about architectural views. The author, Matteo Pericoli, is an architect and a writer. He chose 63 New Yorkers to interview and to enter their apartments, so he could draw the view from their windows. The drawings are in pen and ink, done with great detail. The […]
Frankly, A Good Architecture Book
[amazon_link id=”0870708937″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]Young Frank, Architect, written and illustrated by Frank Viva, is a story about a young man who wants to be an architect but his grandfather is skeptical. They take a trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has a big architecture department, and learn about architects past and […]
A Great Architecture Book
[amazon_link id=”0547238924″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]This book, titled “If you Lived Here: Houses of the World” [amazon_link id=”0547238924″ target=”_blank” ]”If You Lived Here: Houses of the World”[/amazon_link] has fantastic illustrations. They are collages that are intricate, accurate and colorful, and in real life they are 3-D. Houses of the world includes structures from Spain, South Africa, Canada […]
Ghostly Structure in the Woods
This beautiful glowing structure is not as scary as it might look – located in the middle of a redwood forest, it is illuminated from within and seems to be from another world. It is a structure that is made from, of all things, a 3-D printer. If you have not heard of them yet, […]
archKID RECOMMENDS: Origami Architecture Book
Origami Architecture: Papercraft Models of the World’s Most Famous Buildings[/amazon_link] by Yee. Make your own buildings out of paper using the great photo lessons in the book, as well as the patterns from the CD. Intricate and delicate, this is geared for any child who can master an arts knife, like an exacto.
READ About Making Great PLACES
One of our favorite people in the world of architecture writing and thinking is a man named Christopher Alexander. I did not know much about him but I did find this info about his being a professor and an architect of a whole BUNCH of buildings LINK
Something to think about: URBICIDE
Sometimes we make up a word. Like “Kapow” when Batman hits the Riddler in the stomach, or “muckity muck” that material that we step into – you know – the “glooppy glop” that is at the edge of the curb after a sudden huge rainstorm. Back in 1968, a very famous American architecture historian and […]