Richard Meier’s Curves
Richard Meier and the Getty Center.
Archive for the architecture tag
Modernism Rediscovered
Julius Shulman is probably the greatest architectural photographer of all time. At age 97, Taschen has published a three volume set of books called Modernism Rediscovered on his extensive body of work. The set contains over 400 architectural projects and over 260,000 images.
Think of any significant Modern building in Southern California and chances are that Shulman has documented it at one stage in his career. His photograph of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #22, the one with the two girls looking over the Hollywood Hills, has arguably become the most widely published image in the history of architecture. Ask him about an iconic house and he’s not likely to talk about its aesthetics—the way most midcentury Modern architecture is fetishized today—but to focus instead on its innate connection between indoors and out. “The reason why this architecture photographs so beautifully is the environmental consideration exercised by the architects,” Shulman says. “It was the sense that here we have beautiful canyons, hillsides, views of the ocean. Everyone loves these photographs because the houses are environmentally involved, and this was before the emphasis on what everyone is calling green.”
The book set’ll run ya $300 and I’m not big pimpin’ like that, so I wouldn’t be madatcha if you float a set my way gratis.
Amy Barkow Photography
This is what you get, when you mix great photography with great architecture with great flash design: Amy Barkow Photography. Sometimes the mix can be
transcendent.
[via QBN/Honest]
Alberto Kalach
Currently super-diggin’ on the architecture of Alberto Kalach. warm, modern, minimalist mexican architecture with a hint of japanese minimalism thrown in for good measure, exactly the way I like it. His private houses are particularly gorgeous. [via SproutDesign]
Dwell Blog
Dwell has a blog. Good to see Dwell embracing the blog format. The writers are putting out some great posts with lots of big yummy imagery, definitely a worthy online sibling to the venerable print mag. Though the rss feed is summaries-only (with no images). Question: why not just put ads into the full text rss feed? People will still come back to the site to make comments. just a thought. oh and the site doesn’t have trackbacks.
