Recently, Frank O. Gehry has been sued by MIT for some serious issues regarding the design of the three year old Stata Center. This building is a great example of the difference between architecture and sculpture. Architecture is meant to be inhabited and used. Sculpture is to be looked at and admired. [...]
Before You Start Designing there are some exercises you can go through to help you get a better handle on your new home or remodel. Grab a tape measure and a pad of paper. Enlist the help of everyone who lives there (or visits regularly), including small children (they can hold the “dumb” end of [...]
Mies van Der Rohe said “less is more”. At first, this thought seems to make sense. But Milton Glazer has a more nuanced position that I think nails it. He said:
Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was [...]
Subtitled: Plan Book vs. Draftsman vs. Contractor vs. Architect
There are very few of us who undertake any building project without some planning. We try and figure out what we need, how it’s going to be put together and how much it’s going to cost us. For some projects, we plan it out in our [...]
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