Hello, my name is Marlon.
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A big thanks to all those who attended our Oakland Fieldtrip! We definitley learned a lot! Here are the some of the photographs that some of our members took while at The Christ The Light Cathedral and at The Oakland Musuem of California. Enjoy! Next up SAN FRANCISCO!
Images from our Construction and Framing Workshop. This lecture was hosted by our Vice President Nick Naumann, a licensed General Contractor and Architecture Student. A big thank you to him for showing our club members the Anatomy of a House!
Sail Forth-steer for deep waters only. Reckless O’ soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where Mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.
Here are the photos from the ACE Club’s Office Visit to LCA Architects in Walnut Creek, CA. It was the club’s first ever Office Visit so we would definitely like to thank LCA Architects as well as Pam and Carla Bernal for making this visit possible. Thank you so much! Here are some of the great photos that we took from that day! Enjoy!
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
These are pictures of our Perspective Workshop held on September 16th and hosted by Tasha Nobles. A big thank you to Tasha as well as everyone who participated! We hope you learned a lot!
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Next week on Friday, September 24 we will be going on a fieldtrip to two locations in Oakland.
The first is a guided tour of CHRIST THE LIGHT CATHEDRAL. Pictured here:
The second is THE OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA where we will visit their brand new Pixar: 25 Years of Animation Exhibit. The Museum is Pictured here:
For more details of this Field Trip or to SIGN-UP: Please come to our meeting on Thursday, September 23 in ET112 from 5:30-6:30pm.
For more details of this Office Visit or to SIGN-UP: Please come to our meeting this Thursday, September 16 in ET112 from 5:30-6:30pm.
Attention ACE Club Members! Due to the amount of members that have joined our club (as well as the noise level we have been creating) We have now moved our meetings to ET112 (The ET Auditorium). The regular time (5:30-6:30pm every Thursday) remains the same. We will have signs posted just in case anyone forgets. Hope to see everyone there at the new spot! Thanks!
A big thanks to Alexis Dongallo for hosting our InDesign Workshop! The first ACE Club workshop of the Fall semester! If you missed it don’t worry we got a whole bunch of other workshops lined up that you can sign-up for just check our Workshop Series Flyer! Hopefully we’ll see you at the next one, until then, check out the pictures!
For ACE Club’s Second Meeting we spent time getting to know one another through a little game we called Speed “Relating” where each member spent a quick minute introducing themselves to one another. Afterwords, we got into groups and competed in ACE Club Jeopardy! Here are the photos from both these games!
Thank you to all the students who came out to our ET Quad Movie Night and Potluck! Here are some of the images from that night!
Our First ACE Club Meeting was a great success! Over 50 students showed up to find out what the NEW ACE Club has to offer for the Fall 2010 semester! Here are some images from that day! Enjoy!
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Hello everyone I have some good and bad news. The good news is I have currently started a new architecture blog called "The ACE Parti" and the bad news is that I will no longer be adding posts to "Enjoyarchitecture".
Here is the link to my new blog: THEACEPARTI
The new blog is very heavy on theory rather than buildings themselves which I believe no other architecture blog really does. So come check us out!
There are times when architects take their design skills and philosophies beyond their buildings and apply them to furniture, here are some examples:
The Barrel Chair by Frank Lloyd Wright:
The Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe:
The Tulip Chair by Eero Saarinen:
The Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld:
The Hill House Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh:
The Nonconformist Chair by Eileen Gray:
The Wiggle Chair by Frank Gehry:
The Moon System by Zaha Hadid:
If you wish to purchase some of these designer classics check out Elegancecode.com and their special color chooser for Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair:
http://www.elegancecode.com/barcelona-chair-colors.html
One of my heroes, Philip Johnson...such a great person and humble architect
The Education of the Architect
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The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgment that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. Practice is the continuous and regular exercise of employment where manual work is done with any necessary material according to the design of a drawing. Theory, on the other hand, is the ability to demonstrate and explain the productions of dexterity on the principles of proportion.
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It follows, therefore , that architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance, but those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them.
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It appears, then that, one who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions. He ought, therefore, to be both naturally gifted and amenable to instruction. Neither natural ability without instruction nor instruction without natural ability can make the perfect artist. Let him be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens.
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The reasons for all this are as follows.An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. Secondly, he must have a knowledge of drawing so that he can readily make sketches to show the appearance of the work which he proposes. Geometry, also, is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses...
The Vitrahaus, a crazy pancake stack of 12 houses designed by Swiss Architects Herzog & de Meuron Architekten located at the equally crazy Vitra Campus .
The Lifestyle (especially when your up at three in the morning working on your project because your so excited to see what the final product looks like, plus you know a messy studio feels kinda cool),
The Rewards of Creativity (you draw it, you make models of it, you watch it get built, then you see people live and breath in it...how fun is that!),
The Intellectual Fulfillment (because you secretly kinda like solving problems that have to do with numbers...don't lie),
The Love of Drawing and Design (psshhh...it's kinda like being a grown up kid except you traded in your crayons for a cool looking mechanical pencil and a computer),
The Ability to Help and Teach Others (you know you want to change the world),
The Ability to Contribute to Your Culture (because you know you want people to look at your building and say, "If that building wasn't in my city I wouldn't really know what city I'm in."),
The Freedom to Do Your Own Thing (maybe you'll draw for this many hours and then take a nap and then maybe you'll build the model...hmmm or maybe do some graphics...okay but after my nap),
and lastly
The Immortality...(because architecture is the only art that stands the test of time...and you can be remembered...forever.)
Architect Zaha Hadid has always been a big inspiration for me in architecture. Here are some of the projects her firm has completed this year and some of her earlier works which have always been both breathtaking and hauntingly beautiful.
The J.S. Bach Pavilion in Manchester, UK:
The CMA CGM Tower in Marseille, France:
Earlier works:
Maggie's Centres in Kirkcaldy, Scotland:
Phaeno Science Center in Wolfburg, Germany:
Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria:
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio:
Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany:
“To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult nature.
And there is where Design comes in.
And if you think of Brick, for instance,
and you say to Brick,
"What do you want Brick?"
And Brick says to you
"I'd like an Arch."
And if you say to Brick
"Look, arches are expensive,
and I can use a concrete lentil over you.
What do you think of that?"
"Brick?"
Brick says:
"... I'd like an Arch.""
-Louis Kahn
Here's a clip from the movie Indecent Proposal that features a quote by Architect Louis Kahn. I think you'll love this one...its very inspirational for those who want to become architects.
Founded by Thom Mayne, Morphosis is an architectural firm that continuously creates new and impressive designs to wow us with...and the crazy part is their designs not only look good but they are also ultra sustainable!
The Cooper Union in New York City, New York:
The Federal Building in San Francisco, California:
The University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio:
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
-Philip Johnson
Being this is my first official post I would like to start off with a building I am planning to visit during my Christmas vacation, Daniel Libeskind's Crystals for City Center located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The building is set to open this month in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, serving as a retail and public space complex. Via Crystals City Center.
