Author Archives: pettydesign
INSERTED LIBRARIES
I was in Frankfurt last week and stumbled upon one of the coolest “libraries” I have ever seen. Instead of a larger point of books, smaller distributions of bookshelves are placed around the city to make the process of getting …
INSERTED LIBRARIES
I was in Frankfurt last week and stumbled upon one of the coolest “libraries” I have ever seen. Instead of a larger point of books, smaller distributions of bookshelves are placed around the city to make the process of getting …
CYCLEBAHNS
While it was initially conceived in Italy, the public highway was first successfully implemented in Germany. They wanted to create a network for the private use of automobiles, a Germany creation, in high speed transit between major cities. The first …
CYCLEBAHNS
While it was initially conceived in Italy, the public highway was first successfully implemented in Germany. They wanted to create a network for the private use of automobiles, a Germany creation, in high speed transit between major cities. The first …
CONTRASTING POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE
I discovered this image on my research of Albert Speer’s work in Germany. This is from the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris. The organizers of the fair staged that Nazi Germany and …
CONTRASTING POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE
I discovered this image on my research of Albert Speer’s work in Germany. This is from the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris. The organizers of the fair staged that Nazi Germany and …
CONTEXTUAL APPROPRIATENESS
I have been (ill) fortunate to visit many projects by Richard Meier in various cities and countries over the past 5 years. I have seen Richard in Dallas, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, New York and many others I have since forgotten …
CONTEXTUAL APPROPRIATENESS
I have been (ill) fortunate to visit many projects by Richard Meier in various cities and countries over the past 5 years. I have seen Richard in Dallas, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, New York and many others I have since forgotten …
SHELTERING CITIES
I saw this on bldg.blog the other day and thought it was an awesome concept. Growing up in Houston, Texas, I always had a fascination of an infrastructure system put into place to help shade the city from massive excess …
SHELTERING CITIES
I saw this on bldg.blog the other day and thought it was an awesome concept. Growing up in Houston, Texas, I always had a fascination of an infrastructure system put into place to help shade the city from massive excess …
TEXT FROM RESTLESS CITIES
“Archiving”
Michael Sheringham
“A city is a memory machine. Cities need their history as proof of their dynamism. Outside cities, in forests and plains, myths hold sway: places acquire legendary associations; hallowed sites engender pilgrimages or mirror cosmic forces. A …
TEXT FROM RESTLESS CITIES
“Archiving”
Michael Sheringham
“A city is a memory machine. Cities need their history as proof of their dynamism. Outside cities, in forests and plains, myths hold sway: places acquire legendary associations; hallowed sites engender pilgrimages or mirror cosmic forces. A …
IDEAS OF INSTANTANEOUS ARCHITECTURE
Crowds gather in public squares all facing upward. Music begins in the form of screams tearing through the skies, and in an instant an inhabitable space is formed before the “ooooos” and “awwwws” of it’s spectators. Colors sparkle through the …
IDEAS OF INSTANTANEOUS ARCHITECTURE
Crowds gather in public squares all facing upward. Music begins in the form of screams tearing through the skies, and in an instant an inhabitable space is formed before the “ooooos” and “awwwws” of it’s spectators. Colors sparkle through the …
A PAINTING OF IT’S OWN DOCUMENTATION
If architecture/art is all about process, then this is one of the best pieces of either I have ever seen. It is by artist John Baldessari and is currently on exhibition at the Tate Modern. This was the canvas in …
A PAINTING OF IT’S OWN DOCUMENTATION
If architecture/art is all about process, then this is one of the best pieces of either I have ever seen. It is by artist John Baldessari and is currently on exhibition at the Tate Modern. This was the canvas in …
CITE 80
urbanism. walkability. social change. These are the themes of the latest Cite magazine released by the Rice Design Alliance entitled “Houstopia 2035”. If there one dominating topic in the architecture realm of the United States as of late it would …
CITE 80
urbanism. walkability. social change. These are the themes of the latest Cite magazine released by the Rice Design Alliance entitled “Houstopia 2035”. If there one dominating topic in the architecture realm of the United States as of late it would …
ARCHITECTURE + MORALITY
Sean Griffiths, founder of Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), at a lecture tonight argued that architecture no longer serves to its people the kind of moral attitudes that it once did with baroque or gothic structures. Those structures were to help …
ARCHITECTURE + MORALITY
Sean Griffiths, founder of Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), at a lecture tonight argued that architecture no longer serves to its people the kind of moral attitudes that it once did with baroque or gothic structures. Those structures were to help …