I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
Saul Bas
Skidmore Owings Merrill, 1946
Antomy of Plants
Stephen Hales, 1882
Antomy of Plants
Stephen Hales, 1882
Antomy of Plants
Stephen Hales, 1882
Summerhouse
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
House Tower
Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo, 2006
House Tower
Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo, 2006
To Clarify, add detail. Clutter and overload are not attributes of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
Edward Tufte
Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop
Junya Ishigami, 2009
Housing
Alessandro Mendini, 1971
Life Without Objects
Superstudio, 1966
Angelo Mangiarotti, 1968
Another Scale of Architecture – rain
Junya Ishigami
House for Dr Bartholomeusz
Geoffrey Bawa, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1963
House in a basket
Junya Ishigami
Project for a metropolitan cathedral, perspective
Étienne-Louis Boullée, 1782
Alexandra Shatalova, AA – School of Architecture, 2013
Unknown
Design for Solar City showing solar houses organized in cells juxataposed with a courtyard behind each
Peter Cook, 1980
Housing Development
Caruso St John Architects, Bordeaux, 2005
Palm House
Joshua Harskamp, AA – Architectural Association, 2013
Sauerbruch Hutton, 1996
Diplom
Palle Petersen, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 2012
Kopenhagen in Architecture d'aujourd hui
1955
Helene Solvay, AA – Architectural Association, 2013
Bernard Tschumi, 1994
Gian Paolo Valenti, 1961
Residential Proposal
Vittorio Gregotti, Venice, ca. 1970
Where simplicity cannot work, simpleness results. Blatant simplification means bland architecture. Less is a bore.
Robert Venturi, in: Complexity and Contradiction in architecture
Paintings of Sacral Contemplation
Ian Davis
Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Rhode Island, USA, 2011
Pony Garden
Atelier Bow-Wow
Pony Garden
Atelier Bow-Wow