Here's to Architecture!
Beginning my 4-links-a-day series, here's to architecture:
1. If architecture is frozen music (according to Goethe), then this video captures music defrosted. Little by little, intimate architectural details of Louis Kahn's Phillips Exeter Academy Library are revealed in a way you will never see again: stunning in it's realism the building featured in this short film by Alex Roman exists only in the digital format. No concrete. No wood. No metal or glass. Just zeros and ones, with a splash of poetry and music.
To see the real building head over to New Hampshire.
Image source: commons.wikimedia.org2. We are surrounded by the walls of the interior spaces, then the exterior walls. But first, there are our clothes, our second skin, our first wall, separating us from the world around us.
The clothes we wear *is* our first architecture. Wearable architecture! (This reminds me of Bernard Rudowsky, author of 'Architecture Without Architects', whose favorite question was "How do you expect to have a great architecture when you wear such terrible clothes?")
...Ok, I'm not a shoe-tishist, but this episode from L Studio is delicious to watch... And, besides wondering how is it that some of us can stand up, let alone walk in those heals you may indeed begin to wonder: Why Buildings Stand Up?3. Another one from L Studio, on an ingenious and very talented Japanese architect of paper, fabric and tin, Shigeru Ban
I first became familiar with his work in mid-nineties, when I saw his Curtain Wall House in Tokyo published in Abitare magazine. (You can build with fabric?! Why not??!! What is a tent, after all?!) It was love-and inspiration-from the first sight. 4. Twisted: architectural photography of Cedric Lefebvre
