Ancient, modern and post modern; this is a collection of small, pointless and delightful buildings.Tumblr (3.0; @smlbldgs)http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/<p>As a lapsed architecture student I&#8217;m thinking about the usefulness of architecture as an analogy for social / participation media. With its multiple users, use-cases, semiotic hierarchies and iterative incarnations I think architecture can be a bit more helpful than the two dimensional advertising or conversation metaphor that is currently in vogue. After all, conversations don&#8217;t sit around providing context, direction and access the way that hyper-links and content (and for that matter doors and walls) do. But that&#8217;s just tonight&#8217;s thought&#8230;</p>http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/1152012245http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/1152012245Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:02:21 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu21cjF81qdqy77o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu21cjF81qdqy77o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu21cjF81qdqy77o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu21cjF81qdqy77o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu21cjF81qdqy77o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu21cjF81qdqy77o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu21cjF81qdqy77o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Ark: Rintala Eggertsson, Norway</p> <p>Ark is a tower of books inserted to connect book shop and library. Its as if the skin of the building has been flayed; it’s like looking at the cells of a library once the skin has been peeled away. What is word for opposite of spine?</p> <p>Held together by cross braced wires it can be seen visibly moving as inhabitants move through it. Books are like leaves on a tree, a fragile covering made to seem all the more temporary by seeing other books pass by loose in the museum held in other peoples hands.</p>http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977971525http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977971525Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:32:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eoazrpab1qdqy77o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Architects build small @ V&A<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eoazrpab1qdqy77o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eoazrpab1qdqy77o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Internal detail<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eoazrpab1qdqy77o4_500.jpg"/><br/> View through to the V&A<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eoazrpab1qdqy77o5_500.jpg"/><br/> In the V&A courtyard<br/><br/> <p><strong>Ratasok by Helen & Hard Architects, Norway.</strong></p> <p>Elephantine tree house made of 5 ash trees hewn with chain saws. Wildly organic structure sits incongrously inside the ordered lines of the Madjeski Garden Courtyard.</p>http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977534266http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977534266Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:28:11 -0400ExhibitionLondonContemporary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7enaqSFzR1qdqy77o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jean Nouvelle’s Serpentine <a title="Review in the FT" target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/33b0a2ca-8ae8-11df-bead-00144feab49a.html">installation</a> for Summer 2010</p>http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977463742http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977463742Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:06:00 -0400LondonContemporary<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7emncfSV61qdqy77o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bramante’s Tempietto in Rome</p>http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977418472http://smlbldgs.tumblr.com/post/977418472Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:52:24 -0400RomeRenaissance