Architecture - Urban Design - Planning & Renewal
Lessons & Inspiration from The "Highline" Miracle in New York City ***
February 2012
Architecture:
Topics:
Crafting a Sustainable Planet.
Architecture, Smart Design, Urban Planning
TED presentation:
“Small is Beautiful” (see E.F.Schumacher) As an Economic postulate , Ethical Guideline & Design Imperative.
Having our Cake and eating it too.
Urban Planning, Dwelling, & Suburban Sprawl- Reformulated.
Abstract:
Enable Both -improved lifestyle, & a Sustainable Thriving Model for contemporary Society and the Planet.
Cul-de-sac Dead Ends & The Architectonics of Urban America.
A Tragedy in Three Acts 1995
*The Ascension of Peter Zumthor: M.Kimmelman Nyt Magazine March 2011
“An essentialist of the Sensual”
On German artist Joseph Beuys. “-my interest has to do with the mythology and sensuousness of his materials, the importance of his personal life in his art. He was looking at objects with history and a past. “
Vals (spa) is not about outside objects ....“its not about lap pools and slides and gadgets. It is about what happens inside the bathing, oriented toward the ritual, as if in the Orient. Its about water and stone and light and sound and shadow.
“everything else looked fake but in his pavilion you could actually feel the wood, you could smell it, and you could see the steel in between, It was all very mysterious but Real. And the way he described things seemed totally familiar, as if I had known what he was saying but never said it myself -about the noises things make, the experience of touching things , of walking through them.
Visitors respond to not just how his building look but also to their sounds, smells, to the light as it changes around them, even to feel the walls and floors- to what Zumthor has described s the “beautiful silence that i associate with attributes such as composure, self-evidence, durability, presence, integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well
UnSpoken America- The Dark Side of A Dream. A Failed Residential Planning Model and its Mass Propagation
On the Japanese idea of Aesthetics and Space.
A reflection on the Tea Ceremony
Of Gods & Men : Shibumi & Yoda
The Moon. Lessons for Self, Time and Space.
Space as Being
Architecture -As Nature, Light, Time. The Built World & Myth of the Eternal Return.
1988
Lessons & Inspiration from The "Highline" Miracle in New York City ***
February 2012
Architecture:
Topics:
Crafting a Sustainable Planet.
Architecture, Smart Design, Urban Planning
TED presentation:
“Small is Beautiful” (see E.F.Schumacher) As an Economic postulate , Ethical Guideline & Design Imperative.
Having our Cake and eating it too.
Urban Planning, Dwelling, & Suburban Sprawl- Reformulated.
Abstract:
Enable Both -improved lifestyle, & a Sustainable Thriving Model for contemporary Society and the Planet.
Cul-de-sac Dead Ends & The Architectonics of Urban America.
A Tragedy in Three Acts 1995
*The Ascension of Peter Zumthor: M.Kimmelman Nyt Magazine March 2011
“An essentialist of the Sensual”
On German artist Joseph Beuys. “-my interest has to do with the mythology and sensuousness of his materials, the importance of his personal life in his art. He was looking at objects with history and a past. “
Vals (spa) is not about outside objects ....“its not about lap pools and slides and gadgets. It is about what happens inside the bathing, oriented toward the ritual, as if in the Orient. Its about water and stone and light and sound and shadow.
“everything else looked fake but in his pavilion you could actually feel the wood, you could smell it, and you could see the steel in between, It was all very mysterious but Real. And the way he described things seemed totally familiar, as if I had known what he was saying but never said it myself -about the noises things make, the experience of touching things , of walking through them.
Visitors respond to not just how his building look but also to their sounds, smells, to the light as it changes around them, even to feel the walls and floors- to what Zumthor has described s the “beautiful silence that i associate with attributes such as composure, self-evidence, durability, presence, integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well
UnSpoken America- The Dark Side of A Dream. A Failed Residential Planning Model and its Mass Propagation
On the Japanese idea of Aesthetics and Space.
A reflection on the Tea Ceremony
Of Gods & Men : Shibumi & Yoda
The Moon. Lessons for Self, Time and Space.
Space as Being
Architecture -As Nature, Light, Time. The Built World & Myth of the Eternal Return.
1988
