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The post Ep144: Objects of Design first appeared on Life of an Architect.]]> https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep144-objects-of-design/feed/ 0 From a design standpoint, some things are just cooler than other things – and these things don’t need to be justified to anyone because people either understand it or they don’t … but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an interesting and amazing story behin... From a design standpoint, some things are just cooler than other things – and these things don’t need to be justified to anyone because people either understand it or they don’t … but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an interesting and amazing story behind these objects that might contribute to their coolness in a meaningful way. Today Andrew and I each selected three items and we are going to share with you some amazing stories …  Welcome to EP 144: Objects of Design<br /> <br /> [Note: If you are reading this via email, click here to access the on-site audio player]  <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1562005974350-0'); });<br /> <br /> <br /> Today we are going to share with you something we feel is meaningful to us and why, maybe, it should be meaningful to you. Rather than making this a list of things we like – and by extension – things we think you should like as well, we are going to dig a bit deeper and talk about the story behind each item we discuss today. In a sense, it’s that story that should make today’s podcast interesting … just that fact that WE think it’s interesting probably isn’t good enough, so we are stepping up our game.<br /> <br /> The rules are simple – Andrew and I were each tasked with identifying a handful of items that we think are worthy of being labeled “Objects of Design” and we are going to present them in an alternating fashion. We are going to be keeping score because, at the end, I want my list to be better than Andrew’s list.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier (image credit here) CC by SA 3.0 Deed<br /> <br /> Villa Savoye jump to <br /> <br /> I am starting my list today with a building – one that architects, fans of architecture, and French people should all be familiar with … Villa Savoye, a modernist villa designed by Charles-Edouart Jeanneret-Gris, better known as “Le Corbusier” and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret located just outside Paris, France in the town of Poissey. It was built out of reinforced concrete between 1928 and 1931. The villa was designed for Pierre and Eugenie Savoye as a country home but the reality is that they barely lived there, but I’ll get to that in a moment.<br /> <br /> I visited this building in the Fall of 1990 after having become quite familiar with the work as a result architectural history classes and quite honestly, even though it was not the popular still of architecture at the time, I really enjoyed Le Corbusier’s work, not so much some of his ideas on Urban planning.<br /> <br /> But to really get to the interesting part of this particular project, we have to go back to 1927 when the League of Nations rejected the modern building that Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret proposed for its headquarters. To say Le Corbusier was disappointed would be an understatement and this moment became a jumping off point that led to Le Corbusier forming the International Congresses of Modern Architecture in 1928. Another Swiss from Zurich, Siegfried Giedion, who was trained as an Engineer, attended the Bauhaus School where he met Walter Gropius and formed his initial interest and opinions on the modern architecture movement, was the Secretary of the International Congress of Modern Architecture and he, along with Le Corbusier wrote the Working Programme of the congress and formulated the text of the declaration. This program would eventually be distilled into the 5 principals  of architecture that I will mention in a<br /> <br /> Just from that standpoint, Gideon plays an important role into what Villa Savoye is at its essence but he actually continued to play a role in the building as well as its salvage from destruction.<br /> <br /> So it’s now September 1928 and Le Corbusier has taken on the commission of Villa Savoye. It is called that, maybe obviously because it was the summer house for Pierre and Eugénie Savoye.<br /> <br /> Bob Borson and Andrew Hawkins 2024 2024 144 144 Objects of Design full false 1:13:26 39178 https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-140-communicating-through-drawings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ep-140-communicating-through-drawings https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-140-communicating-through-drawings/#respond Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:00:33 +0000 https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/?p=39085 Drawings have always played a role in the process of study and discussion of what we do and why we do it. Today we are going to look at the different forms of drawing and talk about when they are used and how we align these different drawing types and the messages they convey as we discuss "Communicating Through Drawings"

The post Ep 140: Communicating Through Drawings first appeared on Life of an Architect.]]> https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-140-communicating-through-drawings/feed/ 0 Drawings have always played a role in the process of study and discussion of what we do and why we do it. Today we are going to look at the different forms of drawing and talk about when they are used and how we align these different drawing types and ... Drawings have always played a role in the process of study and discussion of what we do and why we do it. Today we are going to look at the different forms of drawing and talk about when they are used and how we align these different drawing types and the messages they convey as we discuss "Communicating Through Drawings" Bob Borson and Andrew Hawkins 2023 2023 140 140 Communicating Through Drawings full false 1:08:55 39085 https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-122-architecture-and-artificial-intelligence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ep-122-architecture-and-artificial-intelligence https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-122-architecture-and-artificial-intelligence/#comments Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:50:49 +0000 https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/?p=38365 Even though artificial intelligence can conceptually trace its roots back to the 1950s, the reality is AI and Machine learning went mainstream not too long ago, but what does this mean to the profession of architecture?

The post Ep 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence first appeared on Life of an Architect.]]> https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-122-architecture-and-artificial-intelligence/feed/ 3 Even though artificial intelligence can conceptually trace its roots back to the 1950s, the reality is AI and Machine learning went mainstream not too long ago, but what does this mean to the profession of architecture? Even though artificial intelligence can conceptually trace its roots back to the 1950s, the reality is AI and Machine learning went mainstream not too long ago, but what does this mean to the profession of architecture? Bob Borson and Andrew Hawkins 2023 2023 122 122 Architecture and AI full false 1:08:23 38365 https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-111-talking-shop-kevin-rice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ep-111-talking-shop-kevin-rice https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-111-talking-shop-kevin-rice/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2022 19:00:43 +0000 https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/?p=38020 In this episode of our Talking Shop series. we are joined by Kevin Rice of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and we discuss careers, office culture, and architecture.

The post Ep 111: Talking Shop with Kevin Rice first appeared on Life of an Architect.]]> https://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/ep-111-talking-shop-kevin-rice/feed/ 1 In this episode of our Talking Shop series. we are joined by Kevin Rice of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and we discuss careers, office culture, and architecture. In this episode of our Talking Shop series. we are joined by Kevin Rice of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and we discuss careers, office culture, and architecture. Bob Borson and Andrew Hawkins 2022 2022 111 111 Talking Shop with Kevin Rice full false 1:02:49 38020