Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
May 12th, 2009
December 18th, 2008
Tags: Bacardi Building, Caviar, Ile-St-Helene, Montreal, Vodka
Categories: Architecture
Iran Pavilion—Expo 67
October 9th, 2008
Tags: Cabinet Magazine
Categories: Architecture, Art
Sina Najafi revisits Gordon Matta-Clark’s fake estates

Cabinet editor Sina Najafi speaks about his Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates project in 2007 at the Department of Architecture at Penn state:
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October 7th, 2008
Categories: Architecture, Publications
Farshid Moussavi & Michael Kubo — The Function of Ornament

“This book is a graphic guide to ornaments in the twentieth century. It unveils the function of ornament as the agent for specific affects, dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity. Each case operates through greater or lesser depth to exploit specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. These internal orders produce expressions that are contemporary, yet whose affects are resilient in time.”
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Farshid Moussavi is a founding partner of Foreign Office Architects and “Professor in Practice of Architecture” at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
July 22nd, 2008
Tags: SCI-Arc
Categories: Architecture, People
Nader Khalili, 1936-2008

Nader Khalili was a California based humanitarian architect best known for his development of the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as Ceramic Houses and the Earthbag Construction technique called Super Adobe. In 1991 he founded the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (Cal-Earth) and was a U.N. consultant for Earth Architecture. Khalili published numerous books on his architectural philosophy & techniques as well as translations of poetry from Rumi, whom he considered instrumental in his design theories. Khalili was a pioneer and leader in the realm of of ethically and socially based architecture.
More information about Khalili

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