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Life Without Buildings 2013-02-16 03:14:06
Meanwhile, elsewhere…Robert Venturi’s Duck Hunt Although there isn’t much original content these days on Life Without Buildings, I’ve been busy writing elsewhere. Most notably, for almost two years now I’ve been co-writing a book with Robert A.M. Stern documenting the history of the Yale School of Architecture and the contributions its alumni have made to the profession. Working on the book takes up …

Design Decoded: Designing a Drone-Proof City

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Life Without Buildings 2013-02-14 12:09:28
Design Decoded: Designing a Drone-Proof CityShura City (image: Asher J. Kohn) As drones become increasingly common tools of war and surveillance on the battlefield and in our cities, how are architects and designers responding? Previously, we?ve looked at personal�counter-surveillance�measures, but it?s likely that future designers will move beyond the scale of the individual to larger projects such as drone-proof architecture or perhaps …

Design Decoded: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Design The Art of the Scent

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Life Without Buildings 2013-02-08 21:42:42
Design Decoded: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Design The Art of the ScentInstallation view of The Art of the Scent exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. � � � � � � � � � � � � �(original image: Brad Farwell) While walking through the�Museum of Art and Design?s�exhibition ?The Art of the Scent (1889-2012)? my mind …

Design Decoded: The Fisher Space Pen Boldly Writes Where No Man Has Written Before

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Life Without Buildings 2013-02-04 16:00:35
Design Decoded: The Fisher Space Pen Boldly Writes Where No Man Has Written BeforePatent #3,285,228, The Fisher Anti-Gravity Pen (image: Google patents) The following post is excerpted from�Design Decoded. The Fisher Space Pen�was created by inventor, pen manufacturer, and (brief)�JFK political opponent�Paul C. Fisher. Fisher had been an innovator in the pen industry for years, even before he started his own company. His …

Design Decoded: When is an Signature not an Signature?

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Life Without Buildings 2013-02-02 18:01:06
Design Decoded: When is an Signature not an Signature?Thomas Jefferson?s ?polygraph? device. Today it would be more properly called a pantograph ?�a tool traditionally used by draftsmen and scientists to reduce and enlarge drawings. The following post is excerpted from Design Decoded. President Obama was in Hawaii when�he signed the fiscal cliff deal�in Washington D.C. Of course, it?s now common for us to …

Design Decoded: When is a Signature not a Signature?

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Life Without Buildings 2013-02-02 18:01:06
Design Decoded: When is a Signature not a Signature?Thomas Jefferson?s ?polygraph? device. Today it would be more properly called a pantograph ?�a tool traditionally used by draftsmen and scientists to reduce and enlarge drawings. The following post is excerpted from Design Decoded. President Obama was in Hawaii when�he signed the fiscal cliff deal�in Washington D.C. Of course, it?s now common for us to …

Building Stories, Panel by Panel

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Life Without Buildings 2012-11-01 04:28:46
Building Stories, Panel by Panel The Chicago brownstone at the center of Chris Ware’s Building Stories, and a glimpse into the lives within. Chris Ware’s�Building Stories�is ostensibly a comic book chronicling the lives of the occupants of a three-story Chicago brownstone.�But it?s so much more than that.�At once�expansive and intimate, it�is a masterpiece of storytelling, a�fragmentary collection of sad and beautiful vignettes that�began …

Designing Football, from Helmets to Hashtags

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Life Without Buildings 2012-10-23 04:08:56
Designing Football, from Helmets to HashtagsDimensions of a professional football field (image: 2011 Official Playing Rules And Casebook of the NFL) Sports are good design. I recently wrote a three-part series on the design of American football over at Design Decoded. There were some surprising discovers made while researching the posts, such as the fact that Paul Brown, for whom Cleveland’s football …

Selling Junkspace or One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Multi-Million Dollar Residential Tower

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Life Without Buildings 2012-09-01 23:03:50
Selling Junkspace or One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Multi-Million Dollar Residential TowerA rendering of 23 East 22nd Street (image � OMA) The September issue of Smithsonian Magazine features an insightful profile of Rem Koolhaas written by former New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff. As a companion to that article, I wrote a piece on Design Decoded, Smithsonian’s blog on design …

The Mystery of 221B Baker Street: Architecture, Fiction, and The Replicating Flat of Sherlock Holmes

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Life Without Buildings 2012-07-25 03:41:28
The Mystery of 221B Baker Street: Architecture, Fiction, and The Replicating Flat of Sherlock Holmes I’ve recently started writing for Smithsonian’s Design Decoded blog, which explores a new topic every few weeks through a series of interlocking posts that will, we hope, offer a new lens for viewing the familiar. We recently started a series on Design and Sherlock Holmes. A brief …

The Dark Knight Rises and Gotham’s Buildings Fall

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Life Without Buildings 2012-07-19 19:05:14
The Dark Knight Rises and Gotham’s Buildings Fall To celebrate this week’s release of The Dark Knight Rises, I thought I’d take the opportunity to republish an excerpt from one of the most popular articles ever published on Life Without Buildings, the story of Batman, Gotham City, and an overzealous architecture historian with a working knowledge of explosives (also discussed: Hugh Ferriss, …

The Dark Knight Rises and Gotham’s Buildings Fall

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Life Without Buildings 2012-07-19 19:05:14
The Dark Knight Rises and Gotham’s Buildings Fall To celebrate this week’s release of The Dark Knight Rises, I thought I’d take the opportunity to repost an excerpt from one of the most popular articles ever published on Life Without Buildings, the story of Batman, Gotham City, and an overzealous architecture historian with a working knowledge of explosives (also discussed: Hugh Ferriss, …

Aesthetics/Anesthetics at the Storefront for Art and Architecture

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Life Without Buildings 2012-07-16 11:07:10
Aesthetics/Anesthetics at the Storefront for Art and Architecture I wrote a review for Domus of Aesthetics/Anesthetics, the current exhibition running at New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture. Here’s an excerpt: - – - Storefront for Art and Architecture was founded in 1982 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of architecture and the built environment. Ten years after its opening, artist …

Space, Crime, and Architecture

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Life Without Buildings 2012-06-28 21:58:58
Space, Crime, and Architecture The newest issue of Plat, an independent architectural journal published by students at Rice School of Architecture, features an essay I wrote with two of my fellow M.E.D. classmates. “Space, Crime, and Architecture” elaborates on some of the issues we discussed in our 2011 Yale School of Architecture research colloquium of the same name. It’s also a deeper, …

Batman Demolishes Penn Station in Chip Kidd’s Death by Design

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Life Without Buildings 2012-06-05 20:47:17
Batman Demolishes Penn Station in Chip Kidd’s Death by Design[The cover to Batman: Death by Design] What if Bruce Wayne wanted to demolish Penn Station in order to surreptitiously construct an auxiliary Batcave beneath the new building? That, in essence, is the plot of Chip Kidd?s new graphic novel Batman: Death by Design. Though a few familiar faces –and grins– make an …

April 30: Breaking Out and Breaking In Panel Discussion at Studio-X

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Life Without Buildings 2012-04-27 19:25:15
April 30: Breaking Out and Breaking In Panel Discussion at Studio-XOn Monday April 30, Columbia University’s Studio-X NYC is hosting the final panel to wrap up the Breaking Out and Breaking In distributed film fest: The discussion will bring together film, architecture, crime, history, and the FBI. Panelists include special Agent Brenda Cotton, Bank Robbery Coordinator for the FBI’s Bank Robbery/Kidnapping/Extortion Squad; …

The David Leaves Its Site to be Received in a Manhattan Traffic Jam

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Life Without Buildings 2012-03-15 07:54:20
The David Leaves Its Site to be Received in a Manhattan Traffic Jam[Michelangelo's David being scanned by The Digital Michelangelo Project] Last week a crotch-shot appeared in my twitter stream. Now, this isn?t normally the type of thing I?d write about but this particular crotch belonged to Michelangelo?s David, the sculpture that wikipedia tells us, has ?become iconic shorthand for ?culture?? ( …

Crime Scenes and Reconstructed Spaces

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Life Without Buildings 2012-03-06 12:09:31
Crime Scenes and Reconstructed Spaces By now it?s largely accepted that new media technologies denigrate, if not completely eradicate, the borders between the interior and the exterior; a process that continues which each new device and piece of software. Space is becoming as malleable and fluid as photographic images. Urban experience is often mediated through personal devices, with thousands of people moving …

The Pink Bathroom: Virtual and Physical Reconstructions of a Crime Scene

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Life Without Buildings 2012-03-06 12:09:31
The Pink Bathroom: Virtual and Physical Reconstructions of a Crime Scene Augmented reality technology may soon be the newest gadget available to crime scene investigators. A researcher at the Delft University of Technology is developing a system to allow police investigators to construct three-dimensional virtual models of crime scenes and support field agents with augmented reality information. Augmented reality (AR) is a …

Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture

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Life Without Buildings 2012-02-15 00:37:30
Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture [Massimo Scolari, Dream of a Shadow, The Man (2011), reimagined as a vintage science fiction book cover because that's exactly what it looks like.] Italo Calvino did not necessarily listen to everything Massimo Scolari said when he spoke to him about architecture, but the attention of the Italian writer was captured when he learned that the young …

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