Showing posts with label architects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architects. Show all posts
15 June 2016
29 April 2016
12 April 2016
it ain't easy
the NYT compiled a collection of responses from female architects about the pitfalls of working in our male-dominated industry (joel). READ IT.
31 March 2016
15 March 2016
21 January 2015
ALL THE ARCHITECTS I KNOW HAVE FAILED AT EVERYTHING BC THEY DIDN'T DO THIS FIRST.
http://architecturefordogs.com/architectures/
They come with blueprints, DIY kits, and other nonsense. Get to work, you lazy architects!
They come with blueprints, DIY kits, and other nonsense. Get to work, you lazy architects!
12 August 2014
this WOMAN is your new GSAPP dean
Amale Andraos, principal of New York–based architecture firm WORKac, has been named dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), succeeding Mark Wigley. Currently on faculty at GSAPP, she has also taught at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American University in Beirut. (via)thx emilube!
06 August 2014
renzo piano gives a good interview about architecture and responding to criticism
in metropolis
PC: Some people have said that the northern façade is not looking as exciting at it could be, that it does not make a enough of a gesture towards the city. How do you respond to that?
RP: First, we have to wait and see, the building is not ready yet, of course. A building like this is like a meteorite, but a gentle one. It does not destroy anything—actually it uplifts. But it lands, and it is something new there. People should wait for the building to be finished and see.
08 July 2014
12 June 2014
look at this nypost headline
DISGRUNTLED ARCHITECT PLANNED TO SHOOT UP DESIGN FIRM AFTER FIRING
Jang allegedly boasted that he “wanted to be on the news” and was planning a “tragedy,” according to a criminal complaint.
The comments prompted the woman to go to cops.
She told cops that she saw Jang draw a map of the office, putting red “Xs” where workers he hated sat. Around her seat, and his own, he put a circle.
The disturbed man was going to warn her not to come to work when he planned to carry out the alleged attack, the complaint said.
He had also asked about the time of the next meeting “where everyone from work would be together” — and said he’d “stay quiet until then,” court papers said.
When she confronted him about the creepy diagram, he “crumpled it up and put it in his pocket, telling her it was ‘nothing.’ ”
26 February 2014
2Pz is your zaha hadid central
When The Guardian recently asked Zaha Hadid about the 500 Indians and 382 Nepalese migrant workers who have reportedly died in preparations for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the architect behind the al-Wakrah stadium responded:
“I have nothing to do with the workers. I think that’s an issue the government – if there’s a problem – should pick up. Hopefully, these things will be resolved.”
Asked whether she was concerned, she then added:
“Yes, but I’m more concerned about the deaths in Iraq as well, so what do I do about that? I’m not taking it lightly but I think it’s for the government to look to take care of. It’s not my duty as an architect to look at it. I cannot do anything about it because I have no power to do anything about it. I think it’s a problem anywhere in the world. But, as I said, I think there are discrepancies all over the world.” (via)real talk.
25 February 2014
nErD aLeRt!
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