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When the Fourth Wall Falls

2012/06/18 Written by Architecture

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve demolished the fourth wall since I posted the original version of this video two years ago.  Sometimes it’s been intentional and strategic. But it usually happens when I lose the discipline of unflinchingly working within the constraints of a character. The magic circle isn’t just a fictional device. [...]

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The Curious Case of the ArcelorMittal Orbit

2012/05/15 Written by Architecture

  LONDON, 11 May – 26 months after being awarded the landmark 2012 Olympic commission, sculptor Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond have today opened their monumental steel tower, the ArcelorMittal Orbit. A surprisingly abject work the tower opulently celebrates its refusal to be a triumphal tower. The structure feels like Kapoor, it feels [...]

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Garage Band & Public Storage

2012/04/03 Written by Architecture

YOUR GARAGE, 2 April – paradoxically, this unassuming place is both the place where creativity is born… and the place where creativity goes to die. Early in your life, the garage is the no-cost studio where musicians, artists, inventors, and innovators can develop their work. Later in life it’s home occasionally to cars, but more [...]

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Peter Eisenman

2010/08/14 Written by Architecture

I’ve always been instinctively drawn to his process-based manipulations of the grid in a sort of postmodern-yet-with-strains-of-modernism kind of way. A Peter Eisenman site “sounds” like a Philip Glass composition to me.

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