Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

Monday, July 29, 2013

La Cappella di Sol LeWitt e David Tremlett






The Sol LeWitt and David Tremlett Chapel, Brunate, La Morra, 1999 here

Monday, April 15, 2013

Ideas and Integrities










Ideas and Integrities by Buckminster Fuller, Collier Books, 1963 (1972 edition)

Friday, July 6, 2012

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Building: The Fight Against Gravity by Mario Salvadori, Atheneum, 1979 (again)

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

it's a balanced world






Architecture: A book of projects for young adults, written and illustrated by Forrest Wilson, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1968
(also: related at VKBMKL)

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

inflato-spaces and geoshapes

Making Children's Furniture and Play Structures by Bruce Palmer, Workman Publishing Company, NY, 1974 (previously/related)

Monday, January 30, 2012

towers in watts

Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts: A photographic exhibition by Seymour Rosen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1962 (thanks p+w!)
previously here and here

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

igluviak

from Building an Igloo by Ulli Steltzer (text and photos), Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto, 1981
Tookillkee Kiguktak and his son Jopee demonstrate building an igloo. They live in Griese Fiord, on Ellesmere Island (Canadian arctic).

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

silo

Miniature grain silos from Yenegandougou, Korhogo, Ivory Coast, and Sudan
from Architecture Without Architects (A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture) by Bernard Rudofsky, Doubleday, NY, 1964

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

*

from Plastics as Design Form by Thelma R. Newman, Chilton Book Co., Philadelphia, 1972 "Extruded rigid urethane foam that foams and sets instantly like shaving cream from an aerosol can, if it were rigid, could create this labyrinth of an environment. (Courtesy, Chemstrand Co. and Michael Lax)"

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Picassiette (the plate stealer)

Raymond Isidore, Interior of the Maison Picassiette, Chartres, France, begun c. 1938
from Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists by John Beardsley, Abbeville Press, 1995