Danwei asked:

Ma Yansong (???) is a young architect whose Beijing firm Mad recently won an international competion for the design of a landmark residential tower in Mississauga, Canda’s seventh largest city. Dubbed the ‘Marilyn Monroe Building’, it is a spectacular and sensuous skyscraper that was the favorite choice of the judges, the press and the public. Danwei TV recently caught up with Ma and asked him some questions about the Marilyn Monroe Building, and his views on architecture in China. To see …

WILBERT

Gerrardo asked:


I have heard that you can order house plans, floor plans, and other online and that people can ask Engineer instead of Architect to construct the building? Will Architects be in demand in a future?

RICH

glassjaw666 asked:

The first ever Architects video for a track off their 2006 debut mini-album ‘Nightmares’ (In At The Deep End Records). Since this video was made the band have changed vocalists and released two albums with new frontman Sam Carter, ‘Ruin’ (2007) and ‘Hollow Crown’ (2009). Check out myspace.com/architectsUK for up to date music and tourdates

JOSHUA

Jim Brown asked:


If you should do home improvement whether for beautification or raising your home’s value purposes, you will depend on creativity and skills. If you have what it takes to do-it-yourself the probably you would not need any expert at all. Otherwise, you will need every good architect you find to help you to improve your home and here is why.

1. Architects are trained for beautification processes. They know how to manipulate things, add something for the overall view and they can create a building that can be pleasant which can be enjoyed by every person occupying it or the public, namely your visitors.

2. Architects want to please you and to do this they are concerned with what their client wants so they need to get your attention and squeeze from you exactly what you want. They use this knowledge to put up a plan that will meet a unique requirement of beauty and creativity.

3. Architects know how to understand every single project they have at hand. They are in every position to be involved with the work right from the start and will stick to it right to the very end. And during the process they may be able to share creative solutions for your home.

4. Architects are professionals who have the exact knowledge of affordable materials you could use for your home and they are the materials commonly seen in the market. They know how to build a plan according to the budget you have given no more, no less.

5. Architects know the codes and laws. It is what they are trained and taught to do. They have ethics to go on about your project and what permits you need to have the project be a step higher.

6. Architects know their way around. They know a lot of contractors at their disposal who are reliable and efficient. If you let your architect choose his or her own contractor then perhaps it will be a better coordinating team and having this will result in a very healthy working environment.

7. Architects know how to anticipate future requirements to design and be able to beautify your home and they are able to be flexible enough to meet you or your family’s needs.

8. Architects know how to create a pleasing and beautiful but functional environment that will suit just fine to the people who are going to stay in them. They have access to almost everything to make any location a better place to stay or live.

9. Architects are nature friendly. They will use everything in their knowledge and power to preserve the environment before and after the improvement has been made.

10. Architects know how to manage your project very well without you tailing them from everywhere. They can even provide you solutions of your home improvement problems which will make you save time and will ease any burdens or agitations in you mind.

After all is said and done, it will still be your choice that will matter. If you feel you can create a wonderful environment for your home, no one will stop you.



EFREN

dvas1147 asked:


i want to know how architects use math. for what calculations, which formulas, how often?
I ask because i’m not mathematically inclined but am considering applying to architecture school.

ZACHERY

BADGER4LIFE asked:


So I’m thinking about changing my major to architecture. I am majoring in Radiologic Technology currently and am finding that it isn’t for me. What are the specifics behind being an architect and what are some of the requirements to do so? I am at UW Madison currently, but am willing to transfer. Thanks!

TYLER

Dane asked:


Though AD Stenger wasn’t as prolific as Joseph Eichler, or as well known as Frank Lloyd Wright, he built some of Austin’s most unique homes that are now considered mid-century modern.

Arthur Dallas Stenger first began building homes in the 1940s in Austin, mostly on Arthur Lane in the Barton Hills area, which was named after his father (the first Arthur Dallas Stenger), who was also an architect. Though Stenger attended architecture school at the University of Texas after returning home from World War II, he never graduated. He did get his architecture license as an undergraduate, and began building homes for post war Austinites.

Though FHA loans had design restrictions built into them, it didn’t stop Stenger from creating unique homes that were moderately priced, even if he had to help the homeowners find loans. He also worked differently from other builders, by purchasing land (mostly in the Barton Hills and Pemberton Heights areas), finding a buyer, and building a home without making his clients sign contracts. There was no pressure for the buyer to take the house upon completion, though clients rarely backed out after seeing the home.

A Stenger home will stand out, with signature low peaked roofs, clad with concrete, wood rock and other organic materials. He also used rock and stone quarried from the home site as siding or built into the fireplace, helping the house fit easily within its surroundings. Stenger had a love for long, low slung fireplaces reminiscent of 50s lounges, so every home he built included a wood burning fireplace, though not particularly necessary in the heart of Texas.

The houses also have many of the amenities that Austin’s big modern building boom now cherish, with walls of windows and clerestory windows hanging just below the exposed roofline, and tinted concrete floors, now pricing out around 10 dollars a square foot. He also used the organic building theory of “bringing the outside in,” by running exterior stonework through the house and into its interior.

Though Barton Hills was featured as “the world’s largest air-conditioned subdivision” in the 1956 Parade of Homes, Stenger didn’t build his homes with central air. Instead, he built large windows to catch morning light, and not the hot sun light of mid afternoon, and a floor plan to allow for a breezy pass through ventilation when the windows were opened.

In 1957, when Stenger’s friend, radio host John Henry Faulk, ended up blacklisted as a communist in the McCarthy era, he built and financed a home for him, knowing his friend was swamped with legal fees. He took his other clients financial situations into account as well, helping offset furniture costs with several built ins, and pricing his houses between $18,000 and $22,000, though today they can range from $400,000 to $600,000.

Stenger built around 100 unique homes in the Austin area, building his last for his wife Jean in 1999, a few years before he died in 2002 at the age of 82. Today’s battle lies between those seeking out Stenger houses for their originality and great use of space, and others who prefer to tear down these houses to build larger homes, since the locations are highly sought after for their land alone.



ALBERTO

Andrew asked:


The English Baroque leading architect became Christopher Wren for the a lack of ostentation and simplicity that can hardly be the qualities which identified Wren’s architecture as one observes the magnificent dome of St Paul’s or Hampton Court’s state apartments. As an architectural depiction this is ordinary stuff an appropriate admiration of symmetry, size, setting and splendour was hardly innovative among knowledgeable gentry in the middle of the XVII century.

The churches with orientation to the 56 designs and sufficient documentary sustain the stylistic indication and propose that 6 were invented by Christopher Wren which were: St Mary-le-Bow, designed from 1670 to 1680; St Bride Fleet Street, designed from 1671 to 1678; St Stephen Walbrook, designed from 1672 to 1680; St James Piccadilly designed from 1676 to 1684; St Clement Danes designed from 1679 to 1685; St Andrew Holborn designed from 1684 to 1686. Four of them are situated in the smart parts of London to the west side of St Paul’s Cathedral; no one is situated in the east of London, but only St Stephen Walbrook and St Mary-leBow are designed in the central part of the City.



RUFUS