Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
mosque
i had never been in a mosque before this week. at sunset on tuesday, after tea + hookah with the turkish students, we explored this hilly area in beyoğlu, on the european side of istanbul, north of the golden horn harbor. in our typical itinerant style, roger and i stumbled around for a bit…and ended [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, religion, travel
or like a herd of spindly elk wandering across the bering strait during migration…
or like a bunch of eager beaver architecture students on the quest for alvar aalto’s experimental summer house…
we trekked across a frozen lake in central finland last week.
we each soon figured out our individually preferred method of snow travel:
1. the sszwee! of [...]
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Tags: aalto, architecture, nature, travel
a question indirectly posed to me by sam kronick one late lasercuttery night, and one that i am starting to rethink this semester:
is studio really the best-designed environment for design?
what makes doing your design work in studio better than, say, in your nicely-decorated dorm room? or the buzzy woodshop? or one big round table with [...]
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Tags: archfamily, architecture, denmark, design, interiors, studio
spain escape
friday = best flight ever day.
lamb + goat cheese sandwiches, red wine, and chocolate creme cookies. thank you KLM.
we emerged from the danky depths of the metro (‘renfre’) and slowly rose to the level of Passeig de Gracia. a breathtaking [and slightly wobbly, due to airplane wine] vision of wide, tree-lined avenue warmth! [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, travel
a conversation snippet about design with a non-design person:
John: design people always add some part that doesnt make senseand put a question mark next to itlike…curves -> planesplanes -> objectsobjects -> 4D??
strikingly insightful…
when i see concept boards for the beginning of some design project’s life cycle, they are littered with grand [and often completely disparate] [...]
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Tags: architecture, design, education, interiors, studio, urbanism
jutland jaunts
last weekend, the architecture + design program went on a study tour to western denmark – including the cities of arhus, aalborg, and kolding. they all reside on the jutland peninsula, which forms the mainland of denmark and ‘juts’ like a finger into the north/baltic seas:
the cities in western denmark are just like smaller, quieter, [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, copenhagen, denmark, design, travel
a visit to Ørestad
after getting to know mainly copenhagen city center for the past two weeks, my European Urban Design Theories [EUDT] professor scooped us up from class this afternoon and whisked us to the metro. i love the metro here because the big windows grant me this view if i squeesh into the very front cart:
our destination: [...]
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Tags: architecture, cities, copenhagen, denmark, urbanism
an elegy of sorts to studio
studio, who are you?
traditionally, you are supposed to be one large room for the sole purpose of being an artist’s workspace…a beautiful breeding ground of creativity, visioning, and inspiration. but you can also be a bleeding mound of frustration. you swallow architecture students for eons at a time, enslaving them to that spiraling, nonlinear tornado [...]
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Tags: archfamily, architecture, design, happiness, mit, studio
“Community and Privacy – Building in Earthtexture. A Coming Together Place
How can we design a building that will be a “coming together” celebration and can help achieve peace?
What does this building want to be, and how can it also express the spirit of society?”
We are fourth-undergraduate-studio students, and already we are supposed to be [...]
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Tags: archfamily, architecture, mit, studio, zeitgeist
to the north end. i walked around, took a bunch of photos, plopped down on a bench next to the playground, watched and giggled as a troupe of elementary school kids clambored all over the jungle gym, and sketched with my blue china marker.
i forgot my cell phone today, so no one from studio [...]
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Tags: archfamily, architecture, mit, north end, studio
on louis kahn
‘Form is “what.” Design is “how:’ Form is impersonal. Design belongs to the designer…It is the role of design to adjust to the circumstantial.’
‘From all I have said I do not mean to imply a system of thought and work leading to realization from Form to Design. Designs could just as well lead to [...]
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Tags: architecture, design, education
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name: tiffany chu
location: cambridge, ma (or san francisco / copenhagen / bridgewater, nj)
industry: architecture + media studies
role: bright, bushy MIT student.
