The story begins in 2006 with a trip down Route 66. Day in, day out, I looked at U.S. traffic signs that were either set in the old, somewhat clumsy “FHWA font series” or the new Clearview HWY typeface. Approaching the signs, I would often test myself: which typeface works best from a distance, and which of its features or details might be responsible for its performance.
Alternative Olympic 2012 Logos by Daniel Eatock. Both alternative logos are a composite of two icons: the Olympic Rings, created in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin and the RAF Roundel, associated with British pop art of the 1960s, appearing in paintings by Jasper Johns and Peter Blake.
The first alternative logo features equal sized rings and the second alternative logo features the five colored rings and the white space that separates them all with the same surface area.
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The Rice School of Architecture took ring roads from two dozen international cities, layering the ring roads at the same scale, and color coded them. The result is Ring Roads of the World, for their 2012 lecture series.
Halley Research Station, run by the British Antarctic Survey, is located on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. A design competition was launched by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the British Antarctic Survey in June 2004 for Halley VI which was won by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects. Halley VI is a structure which is jacked up on legs to keep it above the accumulation of snow with skis on the bottom of these legs, which allows the building to be relocated periodically.
But during a panel on March 8 at the museum sponsored by the Forum for Urban Design, two developers, an architecture professor, and a real estate lawyer reacted soberly to the adventurous and optimistic schemes. Though the panelists agreed that the foreclosure crisis will lead to major changes in suburban development, they all thought new patterns are less likely to be brought about by a revised American dream than by economic and demographic factors. And all said it would be very difficult to change zoning laws to permit denser new development patterns, especially in existing “inner-ring” suburbs.
My main beef with the show is that it’s far too utopian and impractical. That’s par for the course when it comes to museum architecture shows, but I was hoping for more realistic proposals in this particular case, just because the foreclosure crisis is so real and urgent.
Dream Deferred: The Museum of Modern Art’s “Foreclosed” exhibit is long on art and short on reality.
Any honest attempt to fix the suburbs has to start with facing up to why so many Americans live in the suburbs in the first place, and who those Americans are. Suburban families are bigger than urban families; they like their space; and they like living in places where they’re a good distance from their neighbors and a long way indeed from people of other social classes.
The avant-garde is a paradoxical state. In order to exist, it relies on its incongruous condition of being both fundamentally contemporary and ahead of its time. A conceptual palimpsest, the avant-garde requires writing its history over its own past keeping a vulnerable balance between present problems, and possible future solutions. All about contextualizing the perfect timing, what happens when the avant-garde goes out of sync; when its solutions are overlooked for being too premature, or ridiculed for being delayed?
The utopian projects of paper architecture still today exemplify the visionary power of architecture. They are not only artworks, but also concentrations of design energy projected towards the future.
The home is becoming a center for preventative health care, energy production, distributed work, and new forms of learning, entertainment, and communication. We are developing techniques for capturing and encoding concepts related to human needs, activities, values, and practices. We are investigating solutions built from an expanding set of building blocks, or “genes,” which can be combined and recombined in various ways to create a unique assembly of spaces and systems.
