In public, most say issues or history, but in private among friends, they say baggage. Do architects have more than most: hopes dashed by unrealized projects;...

He gestures wildly when he says: "We are under the influence of science and technology"

Awaking from a dream, writes Hans Blumenburg, is the ‘epitome of disappointment,’ even, I might add, if it is a bad dream, as is the one discussed here. The...

“Coherence imposed on an architect’s work is either cosmetic or the result of self-censorship,” writes Rem Koolhaas in the introduction of his remarkable...

Where there is a congruence of construction and construing (Frascari). LSU School of Architecture Student Work Thanks Cody!

In his seminal book, Delirious New York, Koolhaas exhibits a 1909 image of a theoretical high-rise structure with open floor plates, each with a unique country...

Despite the alleged certainty of projection, moments in which something improbable occurs remind us that almost anything can happen between views. ...

It’s hot in Louisiana. Twice, while working outside, I was near heat stroke. The second time, I almost fainted. I was so hot that I couldn’t think straight. ...

Where the plan touched the picture plane is the true length line. LSU Student work

In 1941, at Alabama College, Louis Mumford delivers a series of lectures entitled “The South in Architecture.” Their purpose is to consider the “South’s...

In his article, ‘Mies Van Der Rohe's Paradoxical Symmetries,’ Robin Evans refers to the Barcelona Pavilion as a ‘phantom.’ The Pavilion stood for a mere...

Meeting with a potential client: a jazz musician who abhors morning and adores ‘Moroccan’ architecture. Well, it could be worse. The loft has good space,...

The picture plane knows that it's allegiance is to the view, not the object. Just ask the projectors and you will see. LSU School of Architecture Student Work

On a project different from the one presented here, a client was fixated on Corbusier. As we sat and spoke in her loft-like apartment, she repeatedly said how...

The pieces of material that make your composition should be in service of making legible spaces and form. In the end, there should be clearly legible spaces in...

The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) is a national peer review scholarly gathering dedicated to the study and practice of beginning...

The hand of the architect, for the moment at least, maintains its understood and valued role in design education and practice. Meanwhile, the computer, as a tool...

This project is a renovation of a turn-of-the-century, two-story, high-ceiling warehouse. The building is repurposed with three ‘white-box’ commercial units...

Project the plan directly upwards using only using true dimensions LSU School of Architecture Student Work