A quote from this article in the most recent New Yorker:
I have never seen anything quite like it: historical pastiche is common enough in country houses or museums, but it’s rare on the scale of a skyscraper.
-Paul Goldberger
The article is very friendly to the building and even mentions the bookmarking of marble slabs in the bathroom, reminding me of this picture of another famous bathroom I saw recently on flickr. Maybe I haven’t paid enough attention to Bob (as my Yale roommate calls him) Stern’s work. Or maybe, as the article suggests, I should be checking out Candela, Roth, or Carpenter (an MIT Grad, whoo!).
After a terse email or two with one of my professors, I’ve decided to make the photos of my work on flickr private. If you’re already my friend on flickr you’ll get to see them. Otherwise, just send me an email and we’ll be buddies! So for now, I’ll post very few photos here. And perhaps the blog might even go private for a while.
Next week is a big presentation and so far I’m on track!
Apologies for the last incomplete post. My conx here is so bad I cannot upload images. It is this way at the hotel and the universidad. My students tell me Chile (the country) has a bad internet connection. I believe this to be true.
I’m going to be working in my hotel room, hidden away, today. At the end of the day I should have time to complete the post. Although everything seems to be moving in slow motion since I am hidden from daylight. At my inbox this morning, I lingered over spam. Sometimes, they have lovely names. Sometimes, there’s some foul innuendo going on. The jury is still out on Mysterious Chesnut.
I can’t sleep. Two hours ago I was so tired I could barely cram South American pringles into my face and now I’m wide awake. So I’m watching Federer beat on some guy while I write a blog post and think about my thesis.
I’ve been trying to boil down a one sentence description of my project and here goes the latest iteration:
The technique of pastiche allows for the creation of a layered architecture that can have multiple readings.
So I was lying in bed thinking about what the key elements of the theater (of the 1940’s theater) are. In my mind they are the marquee, the main staircase, and the screen.
So I had some thoughts on each of the three elements. First, I thought the marquee could be used to extend the roof/roof deck. This way it looks like the old school marquee but gets used as something different. This would mean that the theater entrance would be in the rear of the current building, where the parking lot is current. I like this because then the theater entrance would face a greco-roman bank that looks like this:
Hello! I am recent graduate of the Masters of Architecture program at MIT, now a UX Designer at Microsoft. I write about design, architecture, technology and whatever else strikes my fancy.
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