#Architecture and Design

[toyastales]

The Tree House in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico by Javier Senosiain

[nosebleedclub]

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright built 1935

(read about it here)

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𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚍.𝚃𝚈𝙰, 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚇𝚘𝚊 (𝙱é𝚛𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝙽𝚘𝚒𝚛) 🎧

[oneeightfournine]

[spyskrapbook]

"London Metropolitan University _ The School of Art, Architecture and Design _ Summer Show 2024" _ 19-29.06.2024 _ 16 Goulston Street, London, E1 7TP _ Photos by Spyros Kaprinis [27.06.2024].

"Our students have been working extremely hard on their final projects of the year and we're excited to share with them with you at this exciting event.

From 19-29th June 2024 students from all art, architecture and design courses will exhibit their work. The exhibition areas will be Goulston Street (architecture, interiors, and visual communication courses), the Wash Houses (fashion, fashion textiles, product and furniture design, and textiles), Calcutta House (upholstery), and the Annexe (fine art, fashion photography, and photography)."

[asteticas]

ROBERT FITZPATRICK — MINO RESIDENCE, 1967.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Christian Krohg «Oda and Per at the Window», 1892 by Art Therapy by Julianna Via Flickr: Pastel; 90x63.5 cm. {35.4x25in} National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

[troythecatfish]

[kmp-modernfurniture]

Where interior design and architecture meet

“Architecture and interior design are two sides of the same coin or in this case, space. We cannot focus solely on one aspect while overlooking the way both influence each other and combine to form a cohesive dialogue. Moreover, the creation of harmonious interiors that merge seamlessly with architecture…” Read more

[fallensapphires]

Architecture: Gothic Windows

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

[mcmansionhell]

we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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[zegalba]

Great hand forged snake window guards on a home in California

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Fossil sink

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𝙻 𝚘 𝚟 𝚎 💚

The earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

[lilithsaintcrow]

"Wharton’s establishment of herself as an expert on aesthetics and the art of fiction, with a command of Italian art and culture, is particularly impressive given that she did so...in a climate that frequently sought to undermine, second guess, and pigeonhole her for being a woman."