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Architectural Advent Day 6:

Making Urban Places lecture 8. Paradigms of change

End state planning / Phased End State planning / Directed Process Planning / Monitored Process Planning (PDF link)

*update: Of course it would help if I actually remembered to upload the file, and it would be even more helpful if I could now remember where I put it. Will fix when I find – thanks for the heads up Bobby H.

** 12th/12th – link fixed

see previous: Mythical City and Typology Matrix

Architectural Advent Day 8:

I’ve got some serious catching up to do after spending the weekend in Dublin – will start with an easy one: more 1966 Letraset…

Found via Hana’s RSS list:

At last I can reveal one of my most exciting innovations. This is a plan for my new self sustaining system for one man that will allow me to travel around the surface without requiring anything from it.

The hat multi tasks by catching rainwater that goes into my water holding rucksack, where it is purified, capturing solar energy from the sun to light my torch and growing vegetables for me to eat on my travels. It also has a refelective surface so that it pushes the global warmup dangers away from me and back to where they came from.

I am the Man from Below.

Architectural Art Advent Day 7:

Excerpts from the stainless steel clad brochure from the 1968 MOMA exhibition The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. (10Mb PDF file!)

I’m spending this coming weekend in Dublin. Anybody have any good suggestions for places/spaces/buildings/restaurants to visit?

Architectural Advent Day 5:

Lessons in ergonomics for product design students…

Step 1: Visit your local bookshop and purchase as many books on ergonomics as possible.

Step 2: Take books to somewhere relaxing, such as your nearest beach.

Step 3: Collect driftwood found on the shoreline and buy some matches.

Step 4: Light fire with books.

Step 5: Study the driftwood.

Here’s an example of a nature perfected piece I found a few years ago. It’s perfect along every axis and deserves to be copied as some form of handle or small hand held object. The direction of the grain would need replicating though to get the best result. Does anyone have a 3D scanner?

Opening (I’m told) in March 2007, here’s a preview of the nearly completed extension to my local gallery.

I’m looking forward to reviewing it next year, as the original proposal was the subject of one of my first blog entries in 2004:

Triangular in plan, the new building sits in an existing courtyard space with one side parallel to the existing buildinq – the other two travelling towards the street and colliding just past the building line of adjacent properties. The wedges of remaining space will provide an interesting tension between old and new. You might describe it as being one third respectful, two thirds cheeky. Which seems like a fitting recipe for a building to house pop-art.

You’ll note that back then I believed this journal would be all about words with the occasional carefully placed image. Could I have been more wrong?

Architectural Advent Day 4:

There is more to windows than meets the eye. An 3 page excerpt from a 1979 study that’s as relevant now as it ever was thanks to continued climate change – passive solar spaces:

All pages available as a PDF: docs/windows.pdf.

Architectural Advent Day 3:

Letraset People 1966.

Architectural Advent Day 2:

Photo and dimensions – make your own piece of Rietveld furniture.

From a 1960s study of the chair collection at Delft University (I think).