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Some of my favorite architectural images of all time come from a series of photos taken by Fred R. Conrad for the New York Times, showing the remains of an 18th-century ship that had been uncovered in the muddy depths of the World Trade Center site, a kind of wooden fossil, splayed out and preserved like a rib cage, embedded in …
BLDG BLOG 2012-12-13 19:09:00
[Image: A carved sandstone model of the incredible walled fortress-city of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, found where else but within the walled fortress-city of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan; photo by BLDGBLOG]. In his new book Oblique Drawing, architectural historian Massimo Scolari refers in a footnote to a story that I have to assume is familiar to many readers, but one that was new to me, …
BLDG BLOG 2012-12-11 21:47:00
[Image: Monumentalizing mismeasurement in Ecuador; photoby Meridith Kohut for the New York Times, courtesy of the New York Times]. At the end of her forthcoming book The Measure of Manhattan, author Marguerite Holloway refers to the impossibility of precisely locating, using today's GPS technology, the bolt left behind by surveyor John Randel, her book's subject, back in 1811 as he staked …
BLDG BLOG 2012-12-06 15:01:00
The New York Times this morning profiles a plant pathologist at Washington State University named Gary Chastagner, who "heads one of the nation?s half-dozen Christmas tree research labs." These labs include institutions such as WSU-Puyallup (producing "research-based information that creates a high-quality Christmas tree product for consumers"), New Mexico State University ("screening provenances of many native and non-native commercial Christmas tree …
BLDG BLOG 2012-12-04 21:23:00
[Image: Laser-scanning King Tut's tomb, courtesy of the Factum Foundation]. On the 90th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut's tomb, an "authorized facsimile of the burial chamber" has been created, complete "with sarcophagus, sarcophagus lid and the missing fragment from the south wall." The resulting duplicate, created with the help of high-res cameras and lasers, is "an exact facsimile of …
BLDG BLOG 2012-12-03 02:31:00
For anyone in or near Los Angeles next weekend, consider stopping by Foodprint L.A., hosted at LACMA. [Image: A robot strawberry harvester, courtesy of Robotic Harvesting LLC]. There are two things to attend. The first is a ticketed walking tour, which kicks off on Saturday, December 8th, at 1pm; it will be led by indefatigable design writer Alissa Walker: "En route, …
BLDG BLOG 2012-11-30 18:28:00
[Image: An otherwise only conceptually related photo by Steve Rowell shows the LAPD's Edward M. Davis Emergency Vehicle Operations Center & Tactics/Firearms Training Facility in Granada Hills, CA; courtesy of the Center for Land Use Intrepretation]. I was fascinated to read yesterday that a cyberwarfare training city is under construction, to be opened by March 2013, "a small-scale city located close …
BLDG BLOG 2012-11-27 16:32:00
There are at least two events tonight, Tuesday, November 27th, that are worth stopping by if you're in New York. [Image: "Salvage Architecture" by production designer Paul Lasaine from Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb's Drawing Building archive]. While I will be busy co-hosting a book release party for Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb?who just published a collection of images from their …
BLDG BLOG 2012-11-25 01:07:00
The structure pictured below is a "microscopic pyramid," New Scientist explains, "a cage for a living cell, constructed to better observe cells in their natural 3D environment, as opposed to the usual flat plane of a Petri dish." [Image: A pyramidal "cell trapping device," via New Scientist]. It was constructed "by depositing nitrides over silicon pits. When most of the material …
BLDG BLOG 2012-11-24 21:09:00
[Image: Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India; photo by BLDGBLOG (view larger)]. Continuing with the recent series of posts showing photos from India?with apologies in advance for anyone who doesn't want to see these, as I will doubtless keep going for at least several more posts?here are some photos from the utterly fantastic 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. [Image: Mehrangarh Fort, …
BLDG BLOG 2012-11-22 18:30:00
[Image: The Raniji ki stepwell, Bundi, India; photo by BLDGBLOG]. While we're on the subject of stepwells, I thought I'd post some photos taken of another well, this one in the town of Bundi, Rajasthan. [Image: The Raniji ki stepwell, Bundi, India; photo by BLDGBLOG]. While we were in India?or, more specifically, while we were traveling in Rajasthan?Nicola Twilley and I …
BLDG BLOG 2012-11-21 17:32:00
I had the pleasure earlier this year of visiting a site I've long been obsessed with from afar, the magnificent stepwell of Chand Baori, in Abhaneri, India. [Image: Chand Baori, Abhaneri, India; photo by BLDGBLOG]. Nicola Twilley and I hired a car and driver for roughly USD $50-$60, for what turned out to be a total of about 5 hours, and …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-31 03:11:00
[Image: "Lower Manhattan" (1999) by Lebbeus Woods, discussed extensively here]. Like many people, I was?and remain?devastated to have learned that architect Lebbeus Woods passed away last night, just as the hurricane was moving out of New York City and as his very neighborhood, Lower Manhattan, had temporarily become part of the Atlantic seabed, floodwaters pouring into nearby subway tunnels and knocking …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-27 19:48:00
Here are some old photos of mines and quarries, like antique views of the planet being disaggregated into rocks and waste heaps. Here, human civilization is nothing more than a thin lace of extraction camps and train tracks, blast patterns and crowbars, men sweating over landscapes they've learned to dismantle. Photos courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. The first two are …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-27 02:50:00
[Image: Past Futures, Present, Futures at Storefront for Art and Architecture, designed by Leong Leong; photo by Naho Kubota]. A two-part exhibition called Past Futures, Present, Futures opened its second phase?Present, Futures?tonight at Storefront for Art and Architecture, exploring contemporary "reenactments" of classic architectural images, specifically showcasing new versions of "101 unrealized proposals for New York City, dating from its formation …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-25 15:54:00
[Image: From a student project by Adrienne Lau at the Bartlett School of Architecture]. While digging around this morning through my embarrassingly disorganized hard drive, I found a project I'd saved a while back by Adrienne Lau, a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Lau came to New York City last spring on a research visit with the …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-21 17:56:00
Reader Louis Schulz recently sent me a link to an incredible set of photos by Eric Valli, a French photographer and former cabinetmaker whose work has taken him all over the world visiting, among other places, the vertiginous and mind-bending world of "honey hunters" in the Himalayas. However, Louis specifically drew my attention to the visual similarities between the so-called "Shadow …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-19 18:15:00
[Image: NASA's lunar seismometer, via Wikipedia]. First of all, I know it's inaccurate to say there was an "earthquake" on the moon, but I'll use the phrase nonetheless. In any case, I was delighted to read that the tax-funded Apollo 11 astronauts, upon landing on the surface of the moon, installed a seismometer "sensitive enough to detect Neil Armstrong's movements during …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-17 18:12:00
[Image: From the project "Resonance, memory" by Bo Li and Ge Men, students at ETH Zürich]. An interesting new project by Bo Li and Ge Men, students of architecture at ETH Zürich, proposes a kind of buried chandelier to memorialize lost villages in Switzerland?architecture destroyed by landslides, replaced by light. [Image: A "long section" from "Resonance, memory" by Bo Li and …
BLDG BLOG 2012-10-14 17:34:00
One of many interesting things I've been reading this month is the new book by William J. Clancey, Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers. [Image: Curiosity pokes its heavily instrumented "head" around the Red Planet; photo courtesy of NASA and U.S. taxpayers]. Clancey's look at the "robotic geologists" humans have sent to Mars over the …
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