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Where do you get your ideas?

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Forever thirsty, I dream (unbearably) of a small and orderly labyrinth at whose center lay a well; my hands can almost touch it, my eyes can see it, but so bewildering and entangled are the turns that I know I’ll die before I reach it.

Show and NOT tell; Architecture Week - Sat...

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This is Carlo Scarpa. He is cool, no? Of course he is (er was, because he’s dead now), but the real question’s why was he cool?

Show and NOT tell; Architecture Week - Fri...

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“So what do you need, besides a miracle?” “Seeds. Lot’s of seeds.”

Show and NOT tell; Architecture Week - Thu...

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Prompted by some great comments from Tuesday’s installment. I thought it’d be fun to linger a bit and showcase fictional architecture. You know. The kind of stuff that exists only in the illustrator’s/architect’s mind vast territory of madness . Illustrations of architecture that could be real, but aren’t; except as depictions of a space, a place, or an object.

Show and NOT tell; Architecture Week - Wed...

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Wednesday is day three of Architecture Week. Are you sick of it yet?!? Me neither. Today’s installment of the obscure, infamous, or interesting is Spaceport America in New Mexico. This project is the product of collaboration between Virgin Galactic, Foster+Partners, SMPC Architects, and URS Corporation.

Show and NOT tell; Architecture Week - Tue...

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Obscure and marginalized, Lebbeus Woods isn’t so much non-famous as infamous, and interesting. By my experience he’s either detested or loved (depending upon who one asks). While they are certainly brutal, I like his drawings and diagrams; I think they’re freakin’ sweet.

Show and NOT tell; Architecture Week - Mon...

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There are soo many fabricated weeks on the calendar and this week just so happens to be architecture week. Yay! In the spirit of fabricated importance I’m going to try and present one interesting and obscure project per day, for the week.

Do it yourself...

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Ahhh, the mantra of ultimate personal action. I love that phrase because it’s a scalpel; it’s Phaedrus’ knife. It precisely divides one’s desire for something from one’s willingness to invest in it’s production. Everyone knows that an investment of this sort is commonly made with one’s own blood, sweat, and tears hands. Sometimes it also requires some money and resources, depending upon one’s skill level.