Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Maquett "Dancing House"



This maquett is inspired by Gehry's Dancing House in Prague and Hundertwasser's Spa in Bad Blumau.


Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Monday, January 28, 2008

Bad Blumau - Hundertwasser




Bad Blumau is a Spa in the South East of Austria. The art of relaxtion situated just a short transfer from Graz in South East Austria … a world of culinary delights, unique architecture and attractive offers in the areas of health, sport and beauty! Nestled in the gently rolling hills of the Styrian hot springs region, the large-scale hotel, hot springs and leisure facility is the ideal place to relax and regenerate. Green roofs, round shapes and facades, colours which evoke memories of rainbows create a spirited work of art in the middle of fields and meadows. Rogner Bad Blumau is arranged like a city with various districts. The ring-shaped inside spa is the centre, the diverse accommodation, swimming, bathing and restaurant areas branch from the centre out into the open landscape.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Curtain Wall






Here are some references for curtain wall buildings and units.

High Rise



Here are some reference images for high rise buildings.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Hundertwasser



Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (born Friedrich Stowasser, December 15, 1928February 19, 2000) was an Austrian painter, and sculptor. By the end of the 20th century, he was arguably the best-known contemporary Austrian artist, though he was always controversial.

Hundertwasser's original, unruly, sometimes shocking artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism, philosophy, and design of facades, postage stamps, flags, and clothingsui generis, although his architectural work is comparable to Antoni Gaudí in its biomorphic forms and use of tile. He was inspired by the works of Egon Schiele from an early date, and his style was often compared to that of Gustav Klimt. He was fascinated with spirals, and called straight lines "the devil's tools". He called his theory of art "transautomatism", based on Surrealist automatism, but focusing on the experience of the viewer, rather than the artist. The common themes in his work are a rejection of the straight line, bright colours, organic forms, a reconciliation of humans with nature, and a strong individualism.



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Frank Gehry








The warped forms of Frank Gehry's structures are classified sometimes as being of the deconstructivist, or "DeCon" school of postmodernist architecture, whether or not he consciously holds such inclinations. Gehry himself disavows any association with the movement and claims no formal alliance to any particular architectural movement in general.


Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited example of deconstructivist architecture as it was so drastically divorced from its original context, and in such a manner, as to subvert its original spatial intention. Gehry is sometimes associated with what is known as the "Los Angeles School", or the "Santa Monica School" of architecture. The appropriateness of this designation and the existence of such a school, however, remains controversial due to the lack of a unifying philosophy or theory. This designation stems from the Los Angeles area producing a group of the most influential postmodern architects, including such notable Gehry contemporaries as Eric Owen Moss and Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne of Morphosis, as well as the famous schools of architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (co-founded by Thom Mayne), UCLA, and the USC.

Ref.: Wikipedia