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darth_frared Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/7/06 2:25pm Subject: it's not my vault!* - the architecture thread (Disc. 500 Iconic Buildings: the Taj Mahal) - Date Edited: 11/21 10:29pm (259 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	alright, i think if i don't start this just like that it'll just never ever get off the ground. the idea is to to talk about architecture of course, to talk about architects within the confinements of their period. we'll see if this is too ambitious. i'm not a very technically minded person, i have no idea about how to actually build houses so you can talk about that amongst each other, i won't. i have a great love for modern architecture and for the social aspects of architecture, for what it means what house you live in, how cities are built, how these things are planned and executed. i would just really like to kick this off all casual like by having people talk about their favourite houses perhaps? i think this is a good idea. and so you get an idea of your host here, in terms of architecture i mean, i will tell you about my favourite house first. it's in spain and hosts a number of objects of art - the MUSEO GUGGENHEIM in bilbao and it's by far one of the most amazing houses i've ever seen. (you can catch a glimpse of it in one of the bond films, the one with denise richards, i think) you have to walk through the old town of bilbao to get there, it sits right beside the river, and suddenly one of these streets open and there it is in all its glory. it's quite the incomprehensible house anyway, it's made of so many shapes and materials, you have to walk around it to have a first impression, it just blows you away. i think frank gehry designed it (and i have since seen another of his designs, the r'n'r museum in seattle and realized that the guggenheim is really his style and not quite the original i held it to be) with the intention of shaping a flower. and the metal parts look like a flower from above (you can catch some more glimpses here). to me it also resembles a big ship. a flower sitting atop a ship perhaps? gehry had to fit it in with an existing bridge as well, so it's really also build around other stuff but so gracefully. when you walk around it towards the river you'll find that it not only has art inside (and trust me, these are great exhibitions) but also are outside of it (among which an explicable flower dog) so you get to meet a gigantic spider there is loads more to say about it, but i don't want to bore you with my house, actually. i'd much rather hear about yours. *the lovely title pun is courtesy of the lovely ishtar -----signature----- are you out of your vulcan mind?
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Ender_Sai Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Feb '01	Date Posted: 6/7/06 3:50pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	If we're going to talk houses, Fallingwater by the late Frank Lloyd Wright, is my uncontested favourite. It's been the source of countless essays and books, and is really what put Frank Lloyd Wright "on the radar" of 20th century design. E_S -----signature----- In this truth he knew himself to be. From sinking sands he stepped into light's embrace.
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MariahJade2 Title: Former Fan Fiction Archive Editor Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 6/7/06 4:30pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	It also happens to be in my state. My daughter took a tour of it on a choir trip and she said that the inside is alot of 70's colors. I had to laugh thinking about avocado and gold kitchen stuff. As far as architecture, I think I prefer the old rather than modern though I can appreciate the beauty in contemporary things. I was watching tv the other night, and they were talking about Stonehenge in great detail. Now that kind of architectural work facinates me, because it was done without the tools we have today. -----signature----- Have a question or suggestion for the Archive? Ask the NEWBS! Thank you Phillies! World Series Champs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7CI39brXvw "Why can't us" Best line of 2008
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/7/06 7:13pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	The Guggenheim Museum looks like a handful of French fries. Just saying. And Falling Water is probably damp, and not my thing, though Wright's earlier houses are often extraordinary.
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darth_frared Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/8/06 12:29am Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	heehee, french fries. you are mean, zaz. -----signature----- are you out of your vulcan mind?
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/9/06 12:28pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	I'm also arachnaphobic. I'd have a sledge hammer at that giant spider in double-quick time.
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darth_frared Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/9/06 2:50pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	that is almost beyond my capacity to have sympathy for, zaz killing a spider, i mean, that's about as bad as.. i lack words to express that. -----signature----- are you out of your vulcan mind?
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MariahJade2 Title: Former Fan Fiction Archive Editor Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 6/9/06 5:21pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	yes, at least kill nasty bugs like Cockroaches or centipedes, or gypsy moth caterpillers. But not spiders. They eat other bugs. -----signature----- Have a question or suggestion for the Archive? Ask the NEWBS! Thank you Phillies! World Series Champs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7CI39brXvw "Why can't us" Best line of 2008
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DarthIshtar Title: Former CR Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 6/9/06 5:38pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	Oh, if you want french fries, the Disney Hall in Orange County, home of the LA Philharmonic, has a wonderful organ... with frenchfryshaped backdrop. The hall is magnificent except for that. -----signature----- "I feel like a more down-to-earth Pink 5 when I'm writing Leah. Same attitude, less lip gloss." ~Me on how to get in the right mindset for Twilight fanfic.
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darth_frared Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/15/06 3:31am Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	just found this titled silence is sexy and found it a beautiful example of art around old buildings. it says it's by bruno peinado but not where just like henry moore did an amazing sculpture for the bundestag (i think) in bonn (west germany's former capital) titled two large forms. no more spiders, people, now it's amorphous modern sculptures! -----signature----- are you out of your vulcan mind?
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/15/06 8:06am Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	The Henry Moore is good; the other looks like someone dipped the giant ball from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in cheap metal and dumped it in a beautiful palazzo. I'm not fond of architectural anarchronisms, and don't like the tacky glass pyramid at the Louvre, either.
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darth_frared Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/15/06 2:56pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	moore rocks anyway... i'm not sure why but it looked like something i would like to roll around town and just reflect myself. -----signature----- are you out of your vulcan mind?
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duende Registered: Apr '06	Date Posted: 6/15/06 3:23pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	I love architecture, even though I don't know a thing about it, really. Anybody seen "Sketches of Frank Gehry"? It's a documentary film about the guy's work. It looks interesting. -----signature----- My name is JOCELYN. ))<>((
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darth_frared Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/16/06 2:46am Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	i love gehry no end (see first post) but i haven't heard of that film. but then i guess it's not a highly popular subject. i think they'll be showing something about the guggenheims next week on TV here. maybe that'll be interesting. trust me, i don't know anything about architecture either. i just really appreciate it when i see something that is well-done and interesting on the eye. i worked in housing projects so i know how to build cheap houses and make them barely recognizable from each other. everything that stands out without being arrogant is a good thing. we'll get on to a proper discussion here, people, i promise. so far you can just hang out and marvel -----signature----- are you out of your vulcan mind?
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ceridwen1977 Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 6/18/06 4:12am Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	In terms of architecture my favourite would have to be the castles of the medieval period. I haven't any pictures at the moment but maybe I'll find some in due course. They are a marvel of design, a synergy between the demands of war, defence and comfort (although I imagine medieval comfort was different to our standards) and they look amazing. I went to an exhibition in Bremen about Saladin and the Crusades and there were models of the castles built in the Holy Land, which inspired many castles in Britain and France, not least Chateau Galliard and the castles built by Edward I to subdue the Welsh. They are in remarkable preservation - the Krak de Chevaliers is the most famous. -----signature----- All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth - Nietzsche For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction - Lord Byron
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darth_frared Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 6/18/06 2:34pm Subject: RE: it' s not my vault!* - the architecture thread
	when i went to toledo in spain i was astonished to see how the city itself is so apt at displaying how three religions could live in it, the muslims, the jews and the christians. it's still very present there - through architecture. please show some pics if you can find them, ceri -----signature----- are you out of your vulcan mind?
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