"A Warped Perspective"
Check out this great, somewhat biographical, article on Zaha Hadid. The author briefly summarizes Hadid’s entire career and also seems to capture the personality of the architect. Hadid herself, who is also completely clad in black, is large and voluptuous. She regularly works late into the night, her hair looks ruffled and her big, liquid [...]
Life Without Books – The Green House
From the mountains of Stuttgart to the roofs of the Netherlands to the streets of Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne present an incredible overview of contemporary sustainable housing in their new book The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture. In the forward, they declare their mission : to present houses that make [...]
60 Years Ago Today
From Today’s Writer’s Almanac: Today is the 60th anniversary of the day on which President Harry Truman announced that the Second World War had come to an end. You might argue that more human beings were happy on this day in 1945 than on any other day in history. It was the worst war in [...]
Photo Shoots and New Museums
I love/hate photos of Herog and/or de Meuron. They’re always dramatic and self-imporant, and just seem to be saying “oooh… we’re just so Swiss.” The photo at left was taken from Artinfo.com with the perfectly succint caption, “Jacques Herzog poses for a photo.” And boy does he! That guy has more poses than the Kama [...]
A Calatrava Comparison
Grounded in zero fact, and for no reason other than it amuses me to do so, I once again present to you a possible glimpse into the inner workings of Santiago Calatrava. The rendering at right is, of course, Calatrava’s new Fordham Spire – the feminine phallus / bold foray into hermaphroditic architecture – and [...]
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