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From facebook for architects!

Diss-claimer:
All these pictures are NOT mine, i came across them and posted here
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Gaudi - Straight line belong to the man and the curved to God

I thought Architects were Kings and Emperors, boy, I was wrong again. According to Antonio Gaudi, some of us are God and Goddess.

What amazed me the most is how he solved the structural construction of the building. Antonio Gaudí spend lots of work on studies for the design, and developed a new method of structural calculation based on a stereostatic model built with cords and small sacks of pellets. First he traced the outline of the church on a wooden board (1:10 scale), which was then hung on a ceiling. Cords were hung from the points where columns were to be placed, and everything else is up to God and gravity.

Drafting like riding a horse..

Anyone with both experience in riding a horse and drafting? Is it “Like riding a horse”, am not too sure about the riding part but it sounds as if they’re sending the wrong message: “Drafting is like riding a horse in your bikini.”.

How To Become A Famous Architect

Took this from a conversation between a Architecture critic and a person doing M. Arch;
“The fastest way to become a famous architect,” he said, “is to throw a brick at a famous architect.”


advice taken!

Pimp My Model

When you are sick of your modelmaking... you know who to call..
PIMP MY MODEL

an interesting take by havard students

Frank Gehry in the Simpsons

One of the most prominent architects of our time is Frank Gehry, a Canadian living and practicing in Los Angeles, he is best known for his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and more recently his Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall. However, those who have followed his career would realise that Gehry experimented with various forms in his earlier career in his own house and the Loyola Law School.
He is probably the most published and famous living American architect, and it wasn't a surprise that they would have him featured in a Simpsons episode. Gehry is a guest star in The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 14. When I say 'guest star' I mean he really voiced the part and played himself in the episode. I am placing the screenshots of the episode below, narrating the plot.

The Simpsons visit the neighbouring town of Shelbyville where the people are apparently more affluent than the Springfielders. In fact, the whole town thinks that all Springfielders are stupid hicks. So here's a scene in a Shelbyville play where the Shelbyvillians are portrayed to be clean and proper while the Springfielders are portrayed as stupid hicks.

After the play, Lisa tries to convince them that Springfielders are refined, cultured and articulate as well but gets hooted by the Shelbyville crowd.

Marge as Chairman of the Cultural Committee proposes that the town builds a new concert hall, so that Springfield would be seen as a cultured and refined place. Who should be the architect? Frank Gehry of course!

Here's Gehry's own house, which is the most memorable of his projects and was even deemed 'deconstructivist' for the way the materials were treated. It lies in a state of paradox, seemingly incomplete yet complete.

Gehry checks his mail and finds a letter Marge sends him.

He crumples the paper and tosses it on the ground and gets his inspiration for the Concert Hall.

Gehry then presents his design at the Springfield Town Hall.

The spunky new building impresses the crowd and everyone votes to build it.

The construction begins and it seems that they are building a rectilinear building instead.

Then the wrecking balls come and knock the building into shape.

And once the final form is arrived at...

Gehry gives his thumbs-up in approval.

After it is built, Gehry is seen here trying to get skateboarders off his building.

Soon there is an opening night with all the pomp and splendour.

The interior even looks like the LA Concert Hall! The opening night is a big disaster because everyone leaves the building after hearing the first 4 notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Apparently no one in Springfield (but Marge) is interested in classical music!

The town sells the building to Montgomery Burns and he decides to turn it into a prison. Modifications are done to the building.

And here's the building completed as a prison.

who said architecture wasnt fun?

Warning

Architorture agaiN

Architecture and symbolism

Crazy Architecture

Home becomes an 'island' in a building row!

As far as planning disputes go, it is a far cry from letters of complaint to the council over an unsightly conservatory.
After a row with developers, this family's home has been left perched 12m (40ft) up on its own concrete island.
It all started when they refused to accept compensation to move and, while the row rumbled on, the bulldozers excavated the site around them.

Rumoured to have government connections, the family is not expected to be forced out.
But popping to the shops might be a bit difficult. And as for getting the car out of the garage – well, who knows?
The house is in Chongqing, central China – the fastest growing urban centre in the world, with more than 4million residents.
The boom is fuelled by strong economic growth and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But behind the scenes is a debate, that has been raging for ten years, over the need for a law giving legal protection to private property in a Communist state.

thankyou: http://www.metro.co.uk/

I am an architect!

I am an architect

Architectural Terms

Sense of Entry
The front door is big and far away.


Human Scale
Less than 400 feet tall.


Skewed Grid
The design looked too boring with a regular grid.


Pedestrian-Oriented
Doesn’t have enough parking.

Contextual
Is surrounded by a lot of other buildings the architect couldn’t tear down.

Theoretical
Nobody in their right mind would ever consider building the crazy thing.

Signature Building
You can’t afford it.

Less Is More
The designer ran out of ideas. Cheap Skate.

Classically Proportioned
Traced out of a book of Greek architecture.

Postmodern
Traced out of a book of Roman architecture.

International Style
No country will take responsibility for it.

Deconstructivist
The backhoe ran into it during construction—and they liked it.

Seismically Designed High Rise
In an earthquake, the structure will not collapse, but will drop all of its glass and stone panels into the street turning pedestrians into a stew-like mush of pureed flesh.

Jury
Firing squad.

Design Review Board
Failed architecture majors.

Architecture Student
Egotistical masochist with no money

A toilet shaped house!

A South Korean lawmaker and public hygiene activist on Sunday opened his 1.6 million dollar toilet-shaped showcase house designed to campaign for cleaner loos worldwide.
The two-storey home, complete with a nameplate reading "Mr. Toilet's House", is now ready to be occupied, according to owner Sim Jae-Duck.
Billed as the world's only toilet house, the 419-square-metre (4,508-sq-foot) concrete and glass structure rose on the site of Sim's former home in Suweon, 40 kilometres (24 miles) south of Seoul.
Sim, 74, who told AFP last month that his mother gave him birth in a bathroom, has actively campaigned for "clean and beautiful" toilets since his service as Suweon mayor from 1995-2002.

His campaign has since turned many of public restrooms nationwide into facilities boasting paintings, fresh flowers or even small gardens.
Sim's house was completed before the Korea Toilet Association, which he funds, holds a forum in Seoul later this month to launch the World Toilet Association to take his campaign worldwide.
Before Sim's family moves in, he plans to rent out the residence for 50,000 dollars a day -- with proceeds going towards providing poor countries with proper sanitary facilities.
In the centre of the house is a glass-walled bathroom which features a device producing mist to make sure users do not feel too exposed. The loo's lid is raised automatically and music is also turned on when people enter.
The house, which has a stream and small garden in front, is nicknamed in Korean "Haewoojae," meaning "a place of sanctuary where one can solve one's worries."
Sim says 2.6 billion people still live without toilets worldwide.

Source: www.square-mag.co.uk