American Cities Pre-1950

28 July 2010 | Category: Architecture Rumbling | Leave a Comment

American Cities Pre-1950
Ticker tape and confetti floating onto the motorcade carrying the crew of the Bremen, and the crowds assembled to greet them. Broadway, New York, 1928. (Source: National Archives)

A photographic journey through American Cities (visit link for more photos), pre-1950. The past always appears to be exciting, full of possibilities and opportunities. Why does the Past always seem to be better than this moment? How I wished I was born in British Malaya era.

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

You will only understand life once you’ve lived it.

American Cities Pre-1950
San Francisco’s cable cars climbing the Powell Street hill, ca 1945. (Source: National Archives)

American Cities Pre-1950
Workman, perched on the end of a beam, bolting together the framework of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1930. Photograph by Lewis Hine. (Source: National Archives)





Inception

23 July 2010 | Category: Architecture Rumbling | 1 Comment

Another great movie about dreams, architects, imaginary cities and reality. Some of the cast:

  • Ellen Page as Ariadne, the Architect – a college graduate student who constructs the world of the dream.
  • Michael Caine as Miles, Cobb’s mentor, teacher, and father-in-law, and Ariadne’s college professor.
  • Lukas Haas as Nash, Dom’s previous Architect

The most challenging effect was Limbo City at the end of the film because it continually developed during production. Franklin had artists build concepts while Nolan gave his ideal vision: “Something glacial, with clear modernist architecture, but with chunks of it breaking off into the sea like icebergs”. Franklin and his team ended up with “something that looked like an iceberg version of Gotham City with water running through it”. They created a basic model of a glacier and then designers created a program that added elements like roads, intersections and ravines until they had a complex, yet organic-looking, cityscape. Wikipedia

Come to think of it, we tend to dream when we are sad or disturbed, as opposed to when we are excited, we are sleepless. This is a must watch movie, something different. This is way much better than Avatar.

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inception architect model making architecture movie

inception architect model making architecture movie





Architecture And Security

6 July 2010 | Category: Architecture Debates | 1 Comment

Architecture And Security
Image Source: Neatorama

Neatorama latest post – The Enemy at the Door is a must read for all architects. We have architecture and sustainability, architecture and music, architecture and this and that but never architecture and security. Architecture Dissertation is like Hollywood, the same old script with different actor and actress. Here’s some food for thought – Security.

Every time I read of a home invasion robbery, or an in-the-window abduction of a sleeping child, I feel angry and also frustrated. Why should we be so vulnerable in our homes? I’m annoyed with architects. Why aren’t they designing homes in which we can at least relax and feel safe? If architects won’t do their job, I’ll volunteer to step in and do it for them. Here’s an inverted, upside down single-family home. – Neatorama

I bet the most popular architecture dissertation topic of the year is – 2010 Haiti and Chilean earthquake. Rebuilding this and that, same old boring stuff recycled over and over again.

The suggestions at Neatorama are pretty silly but the topic on Architecture and Security isn’t.

Architecture And Security
Image Source: Neatorama

Architecture And Security
Image Source: Neatorama

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