Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Sources

  • Gregory, P. New scapes: territories of complexity (Switzerland: Birkhauser) 2003

  • Papadakis, A. Innovation: from experimentation to realisation (London: New architecture group pty ltd) 2003

  • Rosa, J. Folds, blobs & boxes: Architecture in the digital era (Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of art) 2001

  • Aldersey-Williams, H. Zoomorphics: New animal architecture (London: Laurence King publishing ltd) 2003

  • Burry, J., & Mark Burry The new mathematics of architecture (London: Thames & Hudson) 2010

  • Spuyeroek, L. Research and design: The architecture and variation (New York: Thames & Hudson) 2009
  • Tuesday, April 5, 2011

    Influential Architecture

    'Green roof' School of Art, Design & Media - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
    "This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses."

    Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (Lyon Satolas Airport) - Lyon, France
    "The building's most striking profile, based on two converging steel arches 120 meters long and 40 meters high. The building is most obviously expressive of a bird, symbolizing flight...the two main arches coming together at the bird's beak."

    'Belgo Zuid' - London
    An international restaurant that "explores the Belgian idiosyncrasies as a theme. The design strategy was to explore the formal, structural and organisational qualities of the brief, beyond the intentional kitsch origins... stomach, intestines barrels of beer & medieval vaults were some of the form making references"