The scream and wail of success

At a rather loud 18000 rpm and with a 3/4 inch bit it only took a few hours to CNC mill my final model for studio. Cleaning up the static clingy foam pellets and dust took almost as long....

The Review

Come one come all it's final review time!!

You are all invited to my final review on Tuesday the 19th of December. I should be going around 11am to 1pm but I would recommend showing up at 10:30 just to be safe. It will be held in the basement of al&d and will run all day.
On the production front it looks like one of my models will be just over five feet high, made of solid wood, and carved using the CNC router - if everything goes according to plan. Thats some of the images of it digitally underway below. It should be quite a sight...

Work in Progress

The Fine Line of Lunacy

The edge of architecture. This is definitely where things are going in the conceptual architecture world - whether you like it or not. I do appreciate the way Greg Lynn describes the work as spectacle though.

Books

What is it about the things I love that makes them hard to find? Music that's only available on Vinyl... books that are out of print.
And what is it about Architecture books that is so fantastic? Is it their thick pages, their unusual binding methods, the awe inspiring pictures? I know it's not the cost or ease of availability that's for sure.
I recently went trawling through Amazon's web listing of books on architecture in preparation for being drilled by family and friends about what to get me for Christmas. Lots of books I am interested in were listed, but only a handful were available if I wasn't willing to wait for several months. Figures. It's a shame the bulk of the really interesting projects out there only exist in books. But that is how many of today's world leading architects existed for a long time: as 'Paper Architects'. If anyone is interested and wants to stir the creative juices of a young architect, here is only a quick and incomplete list.

The Fistfight

A recent lecture by American artist James Turrell was the highlight of last week. Turrell has spent his artistic career so far exploring the properties of light and somehow giving an intangible material weight, presence, and texture. When starting on the project which made him famous, Roden Crater, he admitted in hindsight that he was a little out of his league. [Turrell started the project and has been working on it steadily since 1972 - he says he is "almost finished"] He referred to the Roden Crater project as " ... a fistfight I probably shouldn't have gotten in to. But it's too late once it's already started... "

Funny, it makes me think of Studio.
Well almost.

Making

Everyone wants me to make something. Make a drawing. Make a proposal. Make a building design. Make a poster. It's quite odd. I haven't made anything useful this year until quite recently. All of a sudden everybody wants the fruits of my creative labors.

Of course there was the huge model a few weeks ago along with mixed media presentation panels measuring 4 feet high and 23 feet long. And now Studio wants/needs detailed models of several buildings and necessary circulation routes [which are intensive] for Tuesday.

On the fun side of things is the 3D modeling / 3D printing. Make a digital model. Don't make a physical model - let a computer do that.


The Digital:
The Real: