Blog Profile / Life Without Buildings
| URL : | http://lifewithoutbuildings.net | |
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| Filed Under: | Construction / Architecture | |
| Posts on Regator: | 265 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
3D Printing From the Renaissance to Today
3D Printing From the Renaissance to Today 3D printing is making it drastically easier to produce infinite identical copies of anything, for better or worse, for humanitarian or for destructive purposes. A replica of Michelangelo’s David can be made at home just as easily as an assault rifle. While the relatively new technology of 3D printing is proving popular with designers, [...]Show More Summary
A Portrait of the Parachute as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Parachute as a Young Man I recently went skydiving for the first time. It was amazing. Possibly the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done in my life. Before the actual jump, there was the half hour ride in a tiny Cessna aircraft that unfortunately gave me plenty of time to think and overthink about the incredibly complex device I was strapped [...]Show More Summary
Design Decoded: The Architecture of Drones
Design Decoded: The Architecture of Drones Drones can’t just destroy, they can build. Although the military uses of drones are widely debated, less discussed are their potentially revolutionary civilian implications. They aren’t yet widespread, but drones are being used by hobbyists, photographers, farmers, ranchers, and they may even herald an entirely new [...]Show More Summary
Design Decoded: The Drones of World War I
Design Decoded: The Drones of World War I Military aviation was born during the years preceding the World War I, but once the war began, the industry exploded. Barely more than a decade after Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully completed...Show More Summary
Meanwhile, elsewhere…
Meanwhile, elsewhere… Although there isn’t much original content these days on Life Without Buildings, I’ve been busy writing elsewhere. Most notably, for almost two years now I’ve been co-writing a book with Robert A.M. Stern documenting the history of the Yale School of Architecture and the contributions its alumni have made to the profession. Working on the [...]Show More Summary
Design Decoded: Designing a Drone-Proof City
Design Decoded: Designing a Drone-Proof City As drones become increasingly common tools of war and surveillance on the battlefield and in our cities, how are architects and designers responding? Previously, we’ve looked at personal counter-surveillance measures, but it’s likely that future designers will move beyond the scale of the individual to [...] Life Without Buildings
Design Decoded: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Design The Art of the Scent
Design Decoded: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Design The Art of the Scent While walking through the Museum of Art and Design’s exhibition “The Art of the Scent (1889-2012)” my mind was flooded with memories of a nearly forgotten childhood friend, an ex-girlfriend and my deceased grandmother. Show More Summary
Design Decoded: The Fisher Space Pen Boldly Writes Where No Man Has Written Before
Design Decoded: The Fisher Space Pen Boldly Writes Where No Man Has Written Before The Fisher Space Pen was created by inventor, pen manufacturer, and (brief) JFK political opponent Paul C. Fisher. Fisher had been an innovator in the pen industry for years, even before he started his own company. Life Without Buildings
Design Decoded: When is a Signature not a Signature?
Design Decoded: When is a Signature not a Signature? The following post is excerpted from Design Decoded. President Obama was in Hawaii when he signed the fiscal cliff deal in Washington D.C. Of course, it’s now common for us to send digital signatures back and forth every day, but the President of the United States doesn’t just have his [...] Life Without Buildings
Building Stories, Panel by Panel
Building Stories, Panel by Panel Chris Ware’s Building Stories is ostensibly a comic book chronicling the lives of the occupants of a three-story Chicago brownstone. But it’s so much more than that. At once expansive and intimate,Show More Summary
Designing Football, from Helmets to Hashtags
Designing Football, from Helmets to Hashtags Sports are good design. I recently wrote a three-part series on the design of American football over at Design Decoded. There were some surprising discovers made while researching the posts,...Show More Summary
Selling Junkspace or One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Multi-Million Dollar Residential Tower
Selling Junkspace or One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Multi-Million Dollar Residential Tower The September issue of Smithsonian Magazine features an insightful profile of Rem Koolhaas written by former New York Times architecture… Life Without Buildings
The Mystery of 221B Baker Street: Architecture, Fiction, and The Replicating Flat of Sherlock Holmes
The Mystery of 221B Baker Street: Architecture, Fiction, and The Replicating Flat of Sherlock Holmes I’ve recently started writing for Smithsonian’s Design Decoded blog, which explores a new topic every few weeks through a series… Life Without Buildings
The Dark Knight Rises and Gotham’s Buildings Fall
The Dark Knight Rises and Gotham’s Buildings Fall To celebrate this week’s release of The Dark Knight Rises, I thought I’d take the opportunity to republish an excerpt… Life Without Buildings
Aesthetics/Anesthetics at the Storefront for Art and Architecture
Aesthetics/Anesthetics at the Storefront for Art and Architecture I wrote a review for Domus of the current exhibition running at New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture, Aesthetics/Anesthetics.… Life Without Buildings
Space, Crime, and Architecture
Space, Crime, and Architecture The newest issue of Plat, an independent architectural journal published by students at Rice School of Architecture, features an essay… Life Without Buildings
Batman Demolishes Penn Station in Chip Kidd’s Death by Design
Batman Demolishes Penn Station in Chip Kidd’s Death by Design [The cover to Batman: Death by Design] What if Bruce Wayne wanted to demolish Penn Station in order to surreptitiously… Life Without Buildings
April 30: Breaking Out and Breaking In Panel Discussion at Studio-X
April 30: Breaking Out and Breaking In Panel Discussion at Studio-X On Monday April 30, Columbia University’s Studio-X NYC is hosting the final panel to wrap up the Breaking Out and… Life Without Buildings
The David Leaves Its Site to be Received in a Manhattan Traffic Jam
The David Leaves Its Site to be Received in a Manhattan Traffic Jam [Michelangelo's David being scanned by The Digital Michelangelo Project] Last week a crotch-shot appeared in my twitter stream. Now, this… Life Without Buildings
The Pink Bathroom: Virtual and Physical Reconstructions of a Crime Scene
The Pink Bathroom: Virtual and Physical Reconstructions of a Crime Scene Augmented reality technology may soon be the newest gadget available to crime scene investigators. A researcher at the Delft University… Life Without Buildings