reinventing the world with confusion.
there is a contemporary architect that produces some designs that i respect, she is zaha hadid. i first met her at a rick mather party in london around 1980. peter cook of archigram fame pointing at us and commenting that the two of us represented a huge amount of talent. Continue reading
VERTICAL CITY DETROIT RISING OUT OF THE RESTORED LANDSCAPE, THE CULMINATION OF THE VERTICAL CITY STUDY. WHAT I SAW AS THE OBVIOUS ANSWER OTHERS IGNORED OR PROJECTED AS FANTASY. NOW MORE THAN EVER I FEEL CONNECTED TO THIS VISION. THE HARMONIOUS WHOLE THAT IS SELF SUFFICIENT AND A PART OF THE NATURAL PROCESS. THE TECHNOLOGY IS IN PLACE, BUT SOCIETY’S MINDSET IS EONS AWAY. Continue reading
John Johansen bites the dust, another famous professional that backed my work. 1916-2012 96 years young.
like every architect that is creative and thinking, he was constantly experimenting with different approaches and thought processes. he went from a glass house to, womb curved spaces, to brutalism, to clash and bang to megastructures, finally settling in the last 20 years of his life to designing futuristic proposals made from exotic natural systems. Continue reading