Renowned designer of things colourful and plastic, Ettore Sotsass, died on Monday aged 90. As well as being an architect, he worked for Poltronova, Olivetti, Alessi and Artemide as a product designer. With Mario Bellini, he made the Olivetti typewriter in to something much sexier than the Microsoft keyboards we have to put up with today.
02.01.08 in architects profiles
The Americans are starting to discover who Marion Mahoney Griffin was. About time. This New York Times article reveals to its readership how to pronounce “Mahoney” before attributing a good chunk of Frank Lloyd Wright’s early fame to her renderings.
02.01.08 in architects urban-planning
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The winners of the Architecture Australia Unbuilt Prize for 2007 can now be viewed online. The overall winner was A Clinic for the Exhausted, by RMIT student Michael Spooner. I don’t understand it, but as an exercise in drawing it is fairly mind-boggling.
13.12.07 in architects
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by yobitch @ 27.07.07 10:55 pm
Sad but true – but you do grow out of it don’t you ?
Or do people spend their adulthood smitten with ehro worshipping promoting “starchitects” that effectively oppress smaller but not lesser practitioners? Interested in comparing notes………
25.07.07 in architects weird-wonderful
David Mitchell profile from 2005.
27.09.05 in architects
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Horden Cherry Lee has developed the “Micro Compact Home” which come in small pods that can be clipped together. Elements of the design are based on the Japanese tea house.
07.08.05 in architects
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Peter Corrigan profile by Norman Day, written after Corrigan won the RAIA Gold Medal in 2003.
01.09.03 in architects profiles
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A butterpaper editorial from 2002.
03.04.02 in architects profiles
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Interviewed while in Australia in 2001 (transcript).
13.09.01 in architects theory
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An interview with Daryl Jackson earlier this decade.
24.04.00 in architects
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He has created gardens, plazas, and fountains of haunting beauty – metaphysical landscapes for meditation and companionship.
26.07.80 in architects