Biomimicry—borrowing ideas from the natural world—is a valuable tool, but I’m not interested in just mimicking forms. If you start there, you run up against the limits of your materials. But if you start with your materials, you unlock so many potential ways the architecture can take shape. For me, starting with the materials is nature. It means basing your design on what the material is naturally capable of, and how you can push it. It’s a lot different than settling on an iconic form that looks natural and then trying to figure out how to build it.

Jeanne Gang

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Posted on October 29, 2012 with 2 notes

Gang is the rare architect who loves nature and tall buildings, classical techniques and new technology. She sees herself not as an artist, but as a dot connector, a problem solver.

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Posted on October 29, 2012

The Gap Between Our Taste And Our Work - Ira Glass

“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me … is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.

But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

- Ira Glass

More here

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Posted on April 16, 2012 with 8 notes

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thedrawingemporium:

Rudolph | Callahan Residence | 1965

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Posted on March 31, 2012 via Thomas DiNatale with 81 notes

More at Dezeen

St Hilaire church in Melle by Mathieu Lehanneur

Stacked Layers of Marble

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Posted on March 29, 2012 with 4 notes

Bits of Wood by Pepe Heykoop

(Molten tin and scrap wood)

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Posted on March 25, 2012

Source: dezeen.com

arkthree:

dark side of the moon - peter zumthor by seier+seier on Flickr.

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Posted on March 21, 2012 via ARK3000 with 10 notes

ettannorlundaliv:

A-B-C 009 Packaging for lamp made by Kristoffer Sundin. The lamp is made out of a description of the city Smeraldina from the book Invisible Cities. The packaging aims to have a equally complex construction as the lamp itself, consisting out of four different parts which is folded together to fit the different parts, but also to create hidden spaces where some of the parts are stored. The hidden spaces are connected to the story of the lamp. The colors of the packaging corresponds to the light created by the lamp, playing with lights and shadows from the construction. ABC-009 also comes with a book printed on transparent paper, where the back and front of the pages affect each other. (via A-B-C 009 | 1:2:3)

I’m reading this book right now! Definitely recommend it.

(via flipsideofamemory)

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Posted on March 8, 2012 via ska vi fika? with 3 notes