Thought I’ll put my writings down intermittently as we had did in shelter many years before. Anyways my thoughts are as follow: the way the world works is for one to provide value and value is paid and deemed valuable if it benefits the most people. Therefore it follows that the most valuable problems solved…

I find this concept of the detail to be the most compelling. Instead of requiring the detail to become part of a consistent whole, the detail is instead becomes something detached, or autonomous. The detail here maybe something that is more accessible, such as a door handle. This can be a different interaction on a…

According to Kahn “The joint is the beginning of ornament.” These joints in Kahn’s work were meant to replicate qualities of traditional architecture. This is a celebration of the meeting of materials, of where as Zumthor mentioned, ‘single parts which must be joined together. To a large degree, the quality of the finished object is…

Mie’s steel-framed buildings wrapped in concrete fireproofing, which is then cladded in steel to represent what is demonstrated of what is concealed. This is a symbolic congruence but basically ignores the concrete that is in the intermediate. Today the more likely case is a concrete frame maybe cladded by aluminium that is mimicking some other…

The second definition states that the ‘detail’ is applied onto the building on all scale to the point of ad nauseam. The author cites Edward Cullinan’s addition to the St. John’s College Library in 1994 where Cullinan essentially use as many circles as possible from, ‘entry plaza, benches, stairs, elevators, lamps, handrails, concrete columns, steel…

The author begins but asking sets of questions. What is a detail, basically asking what is the conceptual framework of the detail in a building. The first definition is — There Are No Details in Modernism Several points were noted while skimming through this section: Detail as passe: The detail is basically a mere distraction…

Not until that I started working in the ‘real world’ did the I realize I most lack experience in the detail. But at the same time it’s the thing that most interests me as I can finally engage in something more ‘concrete’, that the designs can be rooted in reality. However, I did not really…

Writing a post a week is fairly ambitious, which leads to essentially researching or coming up with some sort of ideas over five or six days that will culminate in a post on a seventh day. Although I suppose the posts can have some related lineage, building up to an emergent thesis later on. Let’s…