http://www.la-ab.com LA-ab Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:52:39 +0000 http://www.la-ab.com en http://la-ab.com/Improbable-Projections http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Improbable-Projections Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:52:39 +0000 LA-ab 2173602 Despite the alleged certainty of projection, moments in which something improbable occurs remind us that almost anything can happen between views. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo2x.jpg" border="0" width="323" height="475" width_o="323" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo2x_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo.jpg" border="0" width="321" height="475" width_o="321" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo4.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="475" width_o="320" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo3.jpg" border="0" width="321" height="475" width_o="321" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2173602/photo3_o.jpg" align="left" /> Finger-painted on the iPad http://la-ab.com/A-Visiting-Professor-s-Baggage http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/A-Visiting-Professor-s-Baggage Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:46:36 +0000 LA-ab 2144473 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2144473/Unpacked.jpg" border="0" width="650" height="150" width_o="650" height_o="150" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2144473/Unpacked_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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; disappointment in those build but compromised; lingering lessons of past teachers; unfulfilled desires to surpass mentors; professional ambitions left to wander; personal commitments unattended; and always the looming figures of history against which we naively measure ourselves? Or is this simply the price paid for being so often visiting and therefore so often packing and unpacking? black 12. simpler days a. past love e. unfulfilled desires red o2. father m. ambiguous lessons rr. moderate success under another’s name <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2144473/compliation1.jpg" border="0" width="650" height="921" width_o="650" height_o="921" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2144473/compliation1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2144473/compilation2.jpg" border="0" width="650" height="886" width_o="650" height_o="886" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2144473/compilation2_o.jpg" align="left" /> From 2000 LSU Faculty Show http://la-ab.com/Mies-Speaks http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Mies-Speaks Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:00:05 +0000 LA-ab 2133986 &#9835; Mies_Speaks.mp3 http://home.la-ab.com/Mies_Speaks.mp3 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2133986/Mies.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="470" width_o="1280" height_o="898" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2133986/Mies_o.jpg" align="left" /> He gestures wildly when he says: "We are under the influence of science and technology" http://la-ab.com/Student-Works-Building-Design http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Student-Works-Building-Design Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:58:07 +0000 LA-ab 2123884 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/2nd floor perspective final 2.5.jpg" border="0" width="372" height="475" width_o="372" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/2nd floor perspective final 2.5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Computer lab2.5.jpg" border="0" width="374" height="475" width_o="374" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Computer lab2.5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Hallway perspective 2.5.jpg" border="0" width="371" height="475" width_o="371" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Hallway perspective 2.5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/auditorium plan elevation2 .jpg" border="0" width="351" height="475" width_o="351" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/auditorium plan elevation2 _o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/FINALBOARDS A copy.jpg" border="0" width="497" height="600" width_o="497" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/FINALBOARDS A copy_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Pod Section_web.jpg" border="0" width="577" height="475" width_o="577" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Pod Section_web_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Pod Sheet_web.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="418" width_o="600" height_o="418" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Pod Sheet_web_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/DSC0030_web.jpg" border="0" width="511" height="475" width_o="511" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/DSC0030_web_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/DSC00230_web.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="447" width_o="600" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/DSC00230_web_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webaxis perspective2.jpg" border="0" width="497" height="475" width_o="497" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webaxis perspective2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webbalcony perspective.jpg" border="0" width="618" height="475" width_o="618" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webbalcony perspective_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Academic Center Plans .jpg" border="0" width="600" height="365" width_o="600" height_o="365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Academic Center Plans _o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Academic Center Sections 2.jpg" border="0" width="424" height="475" width_o="424" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/Academic Center Sections 2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webDSC00147.JPG" border="0" width="297" height="475" width_o="297" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webDSC00147_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webDSC00175.jpg" border="0" width="234" height="475" width_o="234" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2123884/webDSC00175_o.jpg" align="left" /> Where there is a congruence of construction and construing (Frascari). LSU School of Architecture Student Work Thanks Cody! http://la-ab.com/Essay-Hand-Hardware http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Essay-Hand-Hardware Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:21:29 +0000 LA-ab 2083679 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2083679/leonardo-s window.jpg" border="0" width="574" height="475" width_o="574" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2083679/leonardo-s window_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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 of representation, continues have a growing presence in the design studio. Though it can be a source of questionable assertions and idealized expectations, the computer’s ability to generate seemingly endless design alternatives and organize information allows the exploration of ideas in innovative and unforeseen ways. While it is obvious that a working knowledge of digital applications is extremely important for design students, equally crucial is the development of habits of thought that make computer technology more than just a skill. Many of these habits may be specific to and a product of the particularities of the computational environment, but there are also those habits that are less device‐dependent: habits of thought that span from pencil to pixel. Articulating these more device‐neutral habits would eschew the tired debate that pits the virtues and pitfalls of manual and digital representation against one another. A discussion of architectural education, then, would not revolve around the false choice between the constantly changing digital world and the steadfastness of traditional techniques, but would instead seek a cognitive methodology that integrates both manual and digital architectural representation into the design environment. This paper attempts to describe device‐neutral habits of thought as a consistent pattern of inquiry and asks that architectural representation, to a large degree, demonstrate not the conclusions drawn but the inquiry made. Link to PDF http://la-ab.com/Essay-Excursions http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Essay-Excursions Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:00:10 +0000 LA-ab 2083646 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2083646/Millet.jpg" border="0" width="310" height="475" width_o="310" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2083646/Millet_o.jpg" align="left" /> “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 tome SMLXL. One might assume that, by coherence, Koolhaas means ‘consistency’ or ‘unity,’ and is therefore referring to an overarching conceptual framework that unifies an architect’s body of work. Read as such, Koolhaas appears to suggest that his work has not such unifying framework, the absence of which is purportedly the reason SMLXL is organized by project-size rather than a central idea. If this is the case – if Koolhaas means his work lacks coherence, in this sense – he is making a startling admission. Most architects would not confess to such a lack even to themselves, let alone begin a monograph with it. But, Koolhaas is interested in “restor[ing] some kind of honesty” to the discussion of architectural work. His confession is indeed honest, but, as this paper argues, not in the way he intends. Instead, his statement is honest in the way that a slip-of-the-tongue is honest. Link to PDF http://la-ab.com/Essay-Paraniod-Critical-Regionalism http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Essay-Paraniod-Critical-Regionalism Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:48:04 +0000 LA-ab 2082173 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2082173/sullivan fig1 richardson.jpg" border="0" width="211" height="305" width_o="211" height_o="305" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2082173/sullivan fig1 richardson_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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 contribution to architecture.” The topic of one lecture is “The Regionalism of H.H. Richardson.” Do not read that title as referring to only Richard’s work. It refers also to Richardson the man (fig 1). He, himself, is a regionalist work; a product of his birthplace. His character and that of where he was raised are the same. “A full-blown Romantic,” dramatic and vivacious; a “man of feeling and emotion,” of “great appetites” and “generous vitality” writes Mumford. He was, in short, a passionate man. He was, according to Mumford, “a Southerner.” Link to PDF http://la-ab.com/Student-Works-Spatial-Composition http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Student-Works-Spatial-Composition Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:53:20 +0000 LA-ab 2081187 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1919.JPG" border="0" width="455" height="475" width_o="455" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1919_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1916.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="530" width_o="1434" height_o="1136" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1916_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1918.JPG" border="0" width="633" height="475" width_o="633" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1918_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1917.JPG" border="0" width="633" height="475" width_o="633" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/119_1917_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/ashly.jpg" border="0" width="406" height="475" width_o="406" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/ashly_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/ashly1.jpg" border="0" width="443" height="475" width_o="443" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/ashly1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/atkinCLEAN.jpg" border="0" width="633" height="475" width_o="633" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/atkinCLEAN_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/atkinP1010024.jpg" border="0" width="563" height="475" width_o="563" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/atkinP1010024_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/chris 3.jpg" border="0" width="412" height="475" width_o="412" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/chris 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/kindrick 2.jpg" border="0" width="252" height="470" width_o="252" height_o="470" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/kindrick 2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/kindrick 3.jpg" border="0" width="395" height="475" width_o="395" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081187/kindrick 3_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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 composition despite the fact that the composition is made of many pieces of material. Your composition should not have a debris-like quality. Its pieces must coalesce into legible elements LSU School of Architecture Student Work http://la-ab.com/Beginning-Design http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Beginning-Design Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:22:29 +0000 LA-ab 2081032 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081032/NCBDSLogo.jpg" border="0" width="504" height="500" width_o="504" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2081032/NCBDSLogo_o.jpg" align="left" /> The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) is a national peer review scholarly gathering dedicated to the study and practice of beginning design education. For over 25 years, the NCBDS has provided a forum for design educators to present papers and projects and hold discussions related to introductory design issues. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the NCBDS’s longevity is that the conference has no formal organizational structure. It has no president, no treasurer, and no dues. Instead, the conference has a dedicated community of beginning design educators whose interest in the educational challenges and attendant pedagogies, projects, and curricular strategies associated with beginning design propel the conference. This year's conference will be held at Penn State, March 29-31. See their website here: beginningdesign2012.org The conference archive and main website are here:beginningdesign.org http://la-ab.com/Student-Works-Orthographics http://la-ab.com/following/la-ab.com/Student-Works-Orthographics Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:31:10 +0000 LA-ab 2078911 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/brittany orthoWEB.jpg" border="0" width="323" height="432" width_o="323" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/brittany orthoWEB_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/chris ortho.jpg" border="0" width="367" height="600" width_o="367" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/chris ortho_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/denny-plan-elev detail.jpg" border="0" width="235" height="600" width_o="235" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/denny-plan-elev detail_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/CIMG1408.JPG" border="0" width="600" height="489" width_o="600" height_o="489" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/CIMG1408_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/1001-3.jpg" border="0" width="473" height="474" width_o="473" height_o="474" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/1001-3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/IMG_1500.JPG" border="0" width="546" height="475" width_o="546" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/IMG_1500_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/MJones 1.jpg" border="0" width="351" height="600" width_o="351" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/MJones 1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/mjones 2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="414" width_o="768" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/mjones 2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/mjones 2a.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/mjones 2a_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/melody 6.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="302" width_o="600" height_o="302" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/melody 6_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/melody.jpg" border="0" width="633" height="475" width_o="633" height_o="475" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154489/2078911/melody_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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