interview with BLDGBLOG

...ok not an interview preformed by me, not my any means - but a good link here to one by someone else and also a link to a lecture presentation by him here

MANIFESTATIONS I: Architectural Graffitti, drawings and riffs

by the artist known as 'truth' shows what he's got:
http://www.truthtag.com/main.php

Gordon Cullin illustrations:
http://themeasurestaken.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

CCTV photoset on flikr, evolving a strange hulk drifting in the smog:
http://flickr.com/photos/rudenoon/sets/72157603600124481/

With an eye for elements of an additive nature, this web ap. now offers the reverse - subtractive properties:
http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/

Nether additive nor subtractive, this in from strange harvest:
Form Follows Dysfunction: Bad Construction & The Morality of Detail

The fanatic, decon + crazy forms of:
Günther Domenig

Chinese Modern c/o NPR reporter

Doris Salcedo

Interview with BLDGBLOg's Geoff Manaugh from the LA Times

Painting and Photography...and architecture?

Photography and Architecture - Middle of the End Exhibit at SCAD 1, and 2

The Newamsterdam Project

Fresh in from NPR : In the city of Boston the New Amsterdam Project is more than just personal transportation, these bikes take the idea od bike-messenger to next level : the bike-trucker.

But you don't have to take my word for it:



Also from NPR, an article on the Crimanimlz, an LA base bike activist group getting down on the downtown freeway.

In.Ex.Arc's Summer Vacation

This blog will be undergoing some work over the course of the summer - and some vacation time.

It started out as a means of conference lecture materials and then communicating with students, but the hopes are to turn it into a blog with a cause, or at least the cause it set out to begin with - architectural experimentation - of its own.

For the past months my interests been of watching, hopefully, guiding six students experiementations with thier own ideas and ideals and as such my energies were with them. Now that they have completed that process, it is time for a new direction on this page.

Now it's summer, time to get out from behind keyboard.

The link lists will certainly grow longer, but since the writing has been poor, and there are more saved 'drafts' then 'posts' I'm putting In.Ex.Arc. on a limited abscence for the summer, short posts, links, with less likelyhood of major posting.

"Would you like to supersize your building with fries?"

The Philadelphia Business Journal reports (with way too much information on the financing and only a little on the design) of the newly proposed big-honkin' skyskraper the American Commerce Center to add to the concentration of big-honkin' proposed skyskrapers for Philly, whose bretheren built and unbuilt include:

The Richard Meyer Residences on the Schuykil (name will be posted later)
The Murano
Cira Center #2
The Comcast "I'm bigger and more honkin' than all of you" Center

Philadelphia continues to grow in multiple directions, upwards, outwards, and inwards (and by that I mean density in Center City.

http://changingskyline.blogspot.com/2008/03/skyscraper-height-no-object.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080530_Comcast_Center__Phila_s_tallest_building__is_clean-lined_and_dignified.html?adString=ph.news/news_update;!category=news_update;&randomOrd=053108020933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Philadelphia

And with this and the preceding post I now am aware that I have become and endentured architecture blogger hitting on all major themes - historical latin reference, linguistic word play, and now facination with tall structures - to ice the cake i'll submit this link: to the Dubai-really-tall-elevator-in-a-tall-iconic-tourist-promoting-structure-competition http://www.thyssenkrupp-elevator-architecture.com/concurso.aspx

more to later...

Architecture & Baseball

A tale of destruction, prank, jinx, hijinx, hijacking and the power of built space to speak to millions....and maybe..just maybe curse them? c/o NYTimes

Bikers are transport too

links for biking, bike-harrassment by drivers, and modes of action:

http://www.bv.com.au/change-the-world/10199/

http://www.astoriabike.com/2008/03/design-this.html

http://torontoist.com/2006/01/when_motorists.php

http://www.citynoise.org/article/2770

http://bicycleaustin.info/justice/harassment.html

http://www.bicyclenewswire.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.showrelease&cid=108&id=683

http://www.humantransport.org/bicycledriving/library/uastripes/uastripes.htm

http://beatbikeblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html