closed, consensual, directed

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 …

In full swing

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…

What lies beneath

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 …

The Machine

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!)

Travel tips

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

improve your grip

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 …

Wolverhampton Gallery

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 …

Passive solar design

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.

Letraset 1966

Architectural Advent Day 3: Letraset People 1966.

Rietveld instructions

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).