Posts Tagged ‘design’
earthworks, cleansing art
I stumbled upon Lorna Jordan’s work in a January 1997 issue of Landscape Architecture, where her Waterworks Gardens in Renton, Washington was given applause for embracing both aesthetics and ecology in creating public space — in the midst of a gritty sewage-treatment plant. Self-labeled an ‘environmental artist,’ Jordan created eight acres of new open space, [...]
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Tags: design, landscape, nature, thesis
my eyeballs are still reeling
going to the Salone Internazionale de Mobile this year has been one of the most mind-boggling experiences of my entire life.
little did i know what was in store after capriciously buying my $80 EasyJet roundtrip ticket to Milan back in early February. our first impression after exiting the unbreathably-sardiney metro at Rho: billowingly snakey, glass-net [...]
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Tags: cities, design, furniture, future craft, interiors, 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
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
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
some bodycraft ideas
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Tags: design, fashion, future craft, green
de-technologization
Q Drum: Water Transportation Made Easier
“The Q Drum eases the task of fetching water for peoples in developing nations. Climate change has required a countless number of people all around the world to travel greater distances to retrieve water for everyday use. The Q Drum allows a child to pull the full capacity of 50 [...]
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Tags: design, detechnology, future craft
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.
