12.14.2012

Please do not enhance thin lines, Adobe

Just found a solution for a issue that has been bothering me and many of my friends, for as long as I've known what a vector drawing is.

Since I'm a vector fanatic this is great news.
Ok, here it is:
You know when you open a nice vector drawing in Acrobat and it looks messy with all fat lines, like image no.1, but in your vector software it looked fine, like image no.2
Just go to Edit/Preferences/Page display/ and make sure that enhance thin lines is un-checked. Problem solved forever, but unfortunately only on your machine, i.e. it doesn't apply to the document.




11.07.2012

Nat Chard

Just found Nat Chard's blog. A small goldmine for guys like me (I tried to find a way to describe "guys like me" in a humble, objective and maybe unpretentious way for a minute or two now... unsuccessful).
Inspiring and beautiful stuff!


11.06.2012

Mechanical Artifact

The end result of the workshop I've been holding at Lund School of Architecture.


Project brief (short version):

The artifact should not be seen as a functional product that solves a problem or is suitable for a specific need. It’s task can be extremely banal or even useless. This statement creates a generative oxymoron as the artifact get a meaningless purpose. 
Instead of focusing on function this task takes aim on material-connetions, interaction, mechanics and kinetics.


10.30.2012

RIP Lebbeus Woods

Professor Woods past away this morning...

His memory will live on through his great writings and drawings. A great inspiration for many of us. Rest in peace

10.26.2012

Henry Stephens

What happens when a New Zealander goes to school in Denmark and does an project in Germany? Strange things start to appear...

via

10.10.2012

Mechanical Artifact Exhibition


The result of my first workshop is now exhibited in the grand exhibition hall at the Lund School of Architecture.
more images here


10.09.2012

Western Harbour Site Analysis

After a long blog-draught I'm back on track. Had a water+computer mishap about a month ago and have, since then, been un-computerized. Got my new laptop yesterday and have since then been trying to get my files sorted and my software installed.

Found a nice site analysis from my last project that I wanted to share and I also have some wonderful studentwork, soon to be published. For those of you who didn't knew, I've been teaching first year students at Lund School of Architecture for a month now, and I love it!


9.24.2012

Axonometric production collage

Aditional drawing to the Food and Architecture project, describing the internal processes of the machines in relation to the whole structure.
 

9.17.2012

Archfilm Lund

International Architecture Film Festival in Lund, Sweden, ArchFilmLund 2012, October 5-12th

For the program see: www.archfilmlund.se




Mater Degree Project Exhibition

A bit late information but still worth mentioning

Reblogged from LAS*12
On Friday September 14, after the lectures, there will be a Vernissage for the Master Degree Project Exhibition in the A-building foyer.

Caroline Lundin and Mats Håkansson will be exhibiting their projects produced at the Bartlett (London) and at the Royal Academy (Copenhagen) 

9.07.2012

LAS*12, T minus 7

If I haven't told you before I'm currently working as a project manager for Lund School of Architecture, and my job is to arrange Lund Architecture Symposiumin collaboration with the board of education.

Next Friday it's going down! 

I'm super thrilled to have been able to hand-pick a group of people that are really inspiring, and who are showing such a broad spectrum of aproaches to architecture.

Make sure to show up next Friday and even more important, come see the discussion on Saturday, thats usually when the sparks ignite!


8.15.2012

Vacation

I'll be hanging in these hoods for a while


8.09.2012

Cartography Tokyo

A few of my drawings were published in a booklet now during spring, but I have been to caught up with other things to mention it here on the blog.
The drawing are made in March 2011 and the process can be seen here








8.02.2012

Ballardian Architecture | Nic Clear

An inspiring lecture by Greenwich and Bartlett teacher Nic Clear

machines and information science

Functional elements are the most beautiful ornaments.

A facade clad with tubes, ladders, wire, reinforcements, chimneys, platforms, rails, antennas so dense that you don't know if it is a facade or if it just a continuos complexity, is a thrilling one. The most fantastic thing about such a design (looking at an old steel plant) is that it is not designed. It is just a pragmatic response to a need, optimized for a certain condition.
When these functions can take advantage of one another and be strengthened form their co-relation, the architecture can be regarded as a system, rather that a building.
Information science is a more beautiful word for system analysis and is a cross disciplinary set of science branches reaching from computer science to social science. The way in which we use the same tools to analyze architecture, computers and social life triggers new possibilities in approaching a conceptual "design"-phase

Architecture should dare to be more naked. I would even dare to encourage exaggerating programmatic functions. Making the system evident and intriguing.

I'm not saying this project (below) is based on information science but it's quite a beautiful project and a successful restoration of a steel plant. Treating the remains humbly and respectfully embedding it in new subordinate structures.
Horno3 in Monterrey, Mexico by Grimshaw Architects.




via: archdaily


7.25.2012

Portfolio

Finally I have an updated architectural portfolio
Feel free to: ask, comment, hate, love, share or rip (... ok maybe not rip, but take inspiration from)


7.17.2012

AA | Project Reviews 2012

I just learned that it is possible to view projects produced during the past academic year(s) at Architectural Association, on their website.
My dear friend Magnus recommended me to look at this site to get a glance of his project produced at Inter 3. Good stuff, Magnus!


7.12.2012

Ji Soo Han | Scrap metal refinery

This has taken its turn around the web (and back) but its a damn nice drawing, well worth looking at again

7.11.2012

Lund Architecture Symposium

I have just started a new blog called LAS*12

Since I graduated from the Royal Academy in Copenhagen in July, this has, besides cooling down, been my primary occupation.
I'm currently employed by the School of Architecture in Lund to manage a two day symposium together with the Director of the School, Christer Malmström.

Make sure to book September 14&15 and stay on top of things with LAS*12
More info to come...



7.04.2012

Vintage Engineering

Found a goldmine of drawings at old-print.com