cozy (wood) blankets

The pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks seems to mark the unofficial start of autumn for the coffee drinking world. Bring on the pumpkin patches, youth soccer and cool autumn nights cozied under your favorite throw. Your favorite wooden throw? Enter these amazing creations by Berlin textile designer, Elisa Strozyk.

credit: elisastrozyk.de

Existing in a created middle ground between wood and textile, this material challenges our notions on what wood can do and what textiles are.

While not directly architecture and sustainability related, these wooden textiles call to mind the fluidity that can be achieved with materials typically thought of as rigid. Plus, they're way too great to pass up chatting about.

computer programmers are architects?!

Architects or computer programmers? ...computer programmers are architects? 

In this Ted talk, Michael Hansmeyer elaborates on his exploration of architecture forming algorithms. Rather than the more and more whimsical and at times convoluted forms derived from the minds of today's architects, he envisions a shift on the horizon where architectural form is the result of complex algorithms. hmmm... fractals we can live in. 

reading >> building (in) the future

NOTE TO SELF: Master AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, 3dStudio, Rhinocerous, Digital Project, Archicad, and Maya...and, don't forget the countless plugins associated with these programs. (Though the full Adobe Creative Suite is not a part of this discussion- you'd do well to have them mastered as well.) Well, it seems that while I was braving the ups and downs of undergraduate studio, I did not master all of the above. What to do, what to do? 

What does the future hold for emerging intern architects and our licensed counterparts? Super excited about this book sharing my Nook space right now and getting some insight into the answers. Kenneth Frampton, Coren Sharples, Paolo Tombesi and Mark Goulthorpe are among the 34 contributors shedding light on how advancing technologies and production methods are reshaping the architects' role and relationships. (More on this to come.)