resources
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
[555 West Temple Street]
Los Angeles,
California
United States
Ph: (213) 680-5200
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Form Follows WHAT? History and critique of the form follows function formula
Jan Michl from Norway examines the history of that over-quoted phrase and then analyses it. “Not only did it fail to bring the promised end to formalism; on the contrary, it inaugurated, and legitimized, an era of a surrepetitiously formalist approach to architecture and design.”
The Age of Simulation
Ken Sanes – the age of simulation – a trove of essays by this bright Bostonian on such topics as disney, automated environments, and virtual realities.
The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture
Links aplenty to all manner of odd guilds.
George W. Hart
Meet George Hart, geometric genius, mathematician and sculptor, and see his fine works – I think I like the SNARL series the most so far, though “Gonads of the Rich and Famous” gets my gong for naming.
The Geometry Junkyard
Piles and piles of geometry related links. Some serious and some not so.
Fractal Architecture
The acceleration of computing speeds has made the rendering of complex fractal geometries a lot easier, as this site demonstrates.
Fractals and Fractal Architecture
A 2003 essay by Wolfgang E. Lorenz at the Vienna University of Technology, with a section relating to built architecture.
Passageways of Paris
By Christopher Rollason. Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project draft did not get an English translation until 1999. Rollason walks us through the arcades and places Benjamin’s work in the context of the day. He also traces the effects the text has had on current thought.[04/04]
Walk Sydney Streets
This is a great site! Still! Now 94 years old, Alan is six years into his quest to walk EVERY street in Sydney’s suburbs, jotting down notes and taking photos as he goes. Let’s hope he recovers to full speed after the hip replacement – those pics aren’t so pretty…
New Plymouth streets
Some photos of the local architecture I took in November 2007, while at the local NZIA awards .
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Kaurna Building
[corner of Hindley Street and Fenn Place]
Adelaide
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Governor Phillip Tower
[1 Farrer Place]
Sydney
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quondam
An innovatively-structured long time blog (of sorts), where the old becomes new again. Stephen Lauf prefers to see it as an enormous online collage.
The Paul Rudolph Foundation blog
So you can blog when you’re dead..
Lebbeus Woods blog
Lebbeus has a blog!
5 Star renovations
The page you need to know if you’re practising in Victoria, as everything changed on May 1st.