A Day at the Moma

The Moma can always be counted on as a source of knowledge and inspiration for me and all of the struggling designers trying to make it in the big city.

Archigram, Plug-In City

Laurids Ortner, City 47

Morphosis

Toyo Ito, Sendai Mediatheque 

Sea Shelter, click photo below for more info:

 Sketches I Loved

R.I.P. Model

There comes a time in everyone's life where you realize that you have to let go of something that you put lots of love and care and time into.  Sometimes you just have to move on, like in the case of this mural from a previous post, and in the case of this model I made in my first semester of architecture school depicted below in the trash room in the basement of my building.  Don't worry, I recycled it.

Old, Hidden, Crumbling

Goodbye Summer of '11

Its Labor Day weekend, and I'm sad to say that a wonderful, dreamy, lazy summer is over. 

Get back to work!

The Robie House!

For a budding young architect such as myself, a trip to Chicago wouldn't be complete without a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House.  As with other famous buildings, having learned about it in school, discussed it extensively and picked apart its meaning, implications, and design philosophy, I was a little worried that it wouldn't really be all that exciting when finally looking at it in person.  I'm happy to say that this wasn't the case.  The Robie House is incredibly beautiful, and I spent quite some time sitting on the porch and in the living room.  It has that quality that only a few special building posess of having its own voice, a personality that you can almost hear whispering to you when you walk through it.

This is my favorite photo of the day.  You can really feel the horizontality of the building, the stacking of planes , the most important feature of Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie style houses.

Sitting on the porch, under the giant cantilevering roof.