Fallingwater
While we were visiting Peter last weekend, we made a quick drive out to Mill Run to visit Fallingwater. We’ve certainly seen thousands of pictures of the house over the years, but seeing it...
Tagged: architecture
Inside The Box
We live around the corner from Moon Hill. That’s a famous collection of modernist houses which were designed by Walter Gropius’ students in the late 40’s. They were pretty small by today’s standards, so...
Historic American Buildings Survey
The Library of Congress has a lot of interesting stuff online. One which I’ve found pretty interesting recently is called the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection. It’s a collection of engineering drawings and photographs of all sorts...
UCSD Pascal
This month’s IEEE Spectrum has a cute article about UCSD Pascal and how it influenced Java. I used UCSD Pascal at my first job out of college. We were doing stress analysis with ADLPipe...
No Coffee!
We moved into the new Media Lab building a little more than a month ago. There were a lot of things that were not quite finished when we moved in, and there was a...
Kahn’s Library
This is a short, computer generated film by Alex Roman. Kahn’s Exeter Short Film from Alex Roman on Vimeo. It’s very nicely done. You might want to click through for the high-res version. He...
Little Boxes
I just finished reading The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton. It’s an interesting exploration of what makes good architecture work, and why so much architecture doesn’t work. The last chapter is really...
