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Kenneth Cobonpue: Is He Empty or Voluminous?Kenneth Cobonpue’s Croissant table. This post covers the second lecture in the Rice Design Alliance’s three part series, “FURNISH.” If this or our earlier post on Mike & Maaike captivate you, be sure to attend the final and not-to-be-missed lecture by Jurgen Bey. Locally sourced. Organic. Sustainable. Hand-made. These buzzwords are now ubiquitous in every [...] |
01.31.12 | Environment Reviews |
Houston Central StationRendering of proposed Central Station by Snøhetta On the evening of Tuesday, January 24, the Houston Downtown Management District, along with Metro and its design-build component, Houston Rapid Transit, hosted a public presentation of five proposals for the new “Houston Central Station.” They were the result of an invited competition whose impressive advisory panel featured [...] |
01.27.12 | Architecture Reviews |
Can Lake Flato Architects Deliver on the Prefabricated House?Lake Flato’s Porch House. Photographs courtesy Lake Flato, lakeflatoporchhouse.com The fact that architects have been fascinated with prefabrication is no secret. Over the past 90 years, such luminaries as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yona Friedman, Team X, and Jean Prouvé engaged in the dialogue. Modernists found it to work in their system of the [...] |
11.08.11 | Architecture Environment |
A Winning Plan for Workshop HoustonCharrette winner Linh Dan Do stands in front of her team’s design. Not pictured is team member Sarah Simpson. If you think design is for snobs, it’s time you took a visit to Workshop Houston. The site is on a street in the Third Ward, empty lots all around, but it is anything but a [...] |
08.17.11 | Architecture |
Cite 84: FabricationCite 84 cover photograph by Jack Thompson. The Winter 2011 issue of Cite (84) was mailed and is at the Brazos Bookstore, CAMH, MFAH, Issues, Domy, River Oaks Bookstore, and other stores. Below is a letter by Raj Mankad about this special issue, followed by the Table of Contents. The Houston region was named the [...] |
02.11.11 | Architecture |
Fixed Gear UrbanismOutside the Houston Fixed Gear party a young man hangs a bicycle, with gears, on a tree. All photos Raj Mankad. When a young man hung his bicycle from a tree branch near the intersection of Fairview and Dunlavy, the crowd cheered. Upwards of 200 youths had come Friday January 28—on foot, on two wheels, [...] |
02.01.11 | Place |
REPEATCave of New Being, made using digital modeling and fabrication technologies, and recently installed near the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture A new Texas-based design research alliance called TEX-FAB, co-founded by Houstonian Andrew Vrana, is holding an international competition called REPEAT. Here’s the description: REPEAT is a competition established to foster the creative spirit [...] |
08.20.10 | Architecture |
Cite 81 at the PressJoe Ross, designer with PH Design, holds up covers from Cite 81. A new issue of Cite is currently at the press. Subscribe or join now to get your copy. For the last few days, I have been conducting press checks with graphic designers. I find the process so fascinating I would like to share [...] |
03.23.10 | Reviews Unusual |
Cave of New BeingModel of Cave of New Being and meditation pond With the growing genre of architecture generated by biomorphic design and biomimetic processes, a reevaluation of Frederick J. Kiesler’s work is ever more timely. During the mid-20th century he became increasingly occupied with the relationship of structure and natural form in architecture. The Cave of the [...] |
02.10.10 | Architecture Art & Culture |
