By “one wall”, I don’t mean this, clever though it is. Or this, much as I like it despite it going against everything misfits stands for. I was thinking more of something I found recently, in the book “Learning From Vernacular – Towards a New Vernacular Architecture” by Pierre Frey. It’s a house with a […]
I want to run with the idea, from two posts back, of showbusiness and architecture as media spectacle, and see how useful it is at explaining some phenomena we’ve come to accept as normal. RULE 1: Strategic publicity We don’t even notice this anymore. It’s standard. Rem Koolhaas is still master with his design and communications integrated via […]
Not that world! That one’s already got a Facebook Group with 3,801 members last time I looked. So that’s all sorted. I’m talking about the other The World. It’s ENDANGERED. © Nakheel; 2006-ish, judging from the size of Burj Khalifa People, listen! One of Nakheel’s lesser-known inventions was a new service charge for the residents of Palm […]
Meet Isamu Noguchi. Misfits’ doesn’t normally have much time for artists, especially superstar sculptors, but the rules need to be bent a bit for Isamu Noguchi. There’s a biography here. Noguchi is sometimes known for this sculpture he did in 1940. Some of you may have seen it. Many will know this coffee table he designed […]
The first known use of COR-TEN® steel in the architectural world was the John Deere World Headquarters in Moline, Illinois. Completed in 1964, it was designed by Eero Saarinen. Hmm, yes, that’d be the same John Deere building mentioned in the WE ♥ PLANTS post, only now it’s not the neo-savanna landscape we’re looking contentedly at. The John Deere building is the first use […]
2013AD: Some bits of crusty stuff in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. circa 87BC The original thing had only just been manufactured in Rhodes, Greece when it was plundered by the Romans who had recently begun to control that area. The ship carrying it and whatever else the Romans took a fancy to back to […]
Frank Lloyd Wright SANAA MVRDV TADAO ANDO OMA Arata Isozaki If you post a comment with your suggestions for further additions to this post, I’ll search them out and add them. I’ve only just scratched the surface here. I’m particularly interested in those ideas that architects recycle and reuse until they either succeed with it […]
ARM architecture is a computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. ARM = Advanced RISC Machine RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computer An instruction set is a list of all the instructions that a processor can execute (e.g. add, subtract, move, load, store, etc.). In 2005, about 98 percent of the more than one billion mobile […]
This is misfits’ second gallery post. It’s slightly off-theme yes but the procedure is the same. Use the form below to send a link to any photo you’d like to nominate for inclusion. This time, nominations must: feature a well-known client or architect – ideally both! include an architectural model, and capture some awkward moment […]
Q: Which one of these four tables is the misfit? Is it Table 1, designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, in 1928? This table is called the LC6 but it’s usually known (unfairly to its co-designers) as “the Corbusier table”. You can download lots of nice photos of it from the Cassina website, […]
