Lugman Residence Revisited...

We've added one of our, a bit older (or initial architectural), projects onto our Architects Independent website... 

You can access the page by clicking here... 

Good times...

The Appliances Exhibition at the Eclectic Electric Gallery, Richmond, VA...

A collection of a bit older and more recent electrical paraphernalia (heaters, toasters, fans, irons, and more...) from the Eclectic Electric collection in Richmond, Virginia... 

Gambiarra: Repair Culture Presentation by Felipe Fonseca - VCUQatar, Doha...

The MFA Department's upcoming Designer in Residence, Felipe Fonseca will be conducting a presentation titled, "Gambiarra: Repair Culture" here at VCUQatar on November 5, starting at 12.15 pm... 

The accompanying two week module run by Felipe and presentation is a result of a collaboration between VCUQatar and the Office of Strategic Cultural Relations at Qatar Museums (QM)... 

Should be Grand. Please join us if you can...

A Visit to Pininfarina, Italy...

A few, quasi-random, iPhone photos from a recent visit to the Pininfarina headquarters in Italy... 

Good times...

Design Details No. 28 - Olivetti Store/ Gallery in Venice, Italy...

A few details from the Olivetti Store (now Gallery) designed by Carlo Scarpa (the ubermensch of original design detailing) in the late fifties, located by St. Mark's Square in Venice...  

Digital Wabi Sabi...

Above and Below: The Plinth Vase...

 There's something tactile, seductive, almost endearing about some of the process-based 'failures' or mistakes that occasionally occur in something fabricated through digital means. Such faux-pas are seldom acknowledged, or are quickly brushed under the carpet, in most discussions relating to things made through either subtractive, additive, or even formative methods of CAD based making. The CAD-CAM (Buildware) methods are, after all, supposed to bring forth a new dawn of projects and work that allow and provide means for artists, architects and designers to retain control of their work from conception to conclusion, and do so through an optimized process in which logistical faults, omissions and inaccuracies are minimized, if not removed. For most of us who use such means daily, however, the 'misprints' are the norm rather than the exception. 

The included designs provide a case for celebrating such aforementioned deviations. They demonstrate that there is an inherent craft component in CAD-CAM based fabrication processes (an allowance for a subjective interpretation) that, in their own right, routinely catalyze (form based, textural, various sensorial) outcomes affecting and resulting in more dynamic and multi-faceted designs. 

More images included on our website, accessed by clicking here...

Above and Below: Two renditions of the 'Nouveau' Vase...

Design Details No. 27 - Concrete & Grass Ground Tiles, Helsinki...

Photo taken in the Fall, of a grass/ tiling covered parking lot outside a museum... 

The above chosen patch isn't perhaps the strongest representative of this type of hybridized ground tiling (the season, early Spring, might also have been wrong) but in general the fusion of a robust ground plane with a perceptually contrasting grass presents a pleasant and perceptually syncretic whole…

The more spontaneous rendition of the above is also quite nice - raw, but nice...