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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on September 24, 2007, 9:30 am
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>>
>>>
>>>> Should have titled it, "Take that! Building codes....."
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/
>>>>>
>>>
>>> A few places around tropical Australia that look like that, except
>>> the glass is replaced by louvre panels - with insect screens. Would
>>> probably need overhangs or window hoods as well. Glenn Murcutt has
>>> done several.
>>>
>>> http://www.butterpaper.com/editorials/editorial150402.htm
>>>
>>> These also present a problem where building codes and so-called
>>> 'energy efficiency' criteria are concerned, but we also have the
>>> option of "peer review" eg if enough experts say its ok - then its ok
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Some of us are looking at developing a prefabricated modular system
>>> based on cold-formed steel portal frames - maybe it could turn out to
>>> be "Mies and Glenn" for the rest of us :-)
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>> As much as I like Murcutt, these only look alike from a great
>> distance. Have you seen Mies up close?
> I was joking sort of, but also wondering about the framing, how easy it
> would be to fabricate. Haven't seen Mies up close. The only one of the
> recent greats I've seen much of is Corbusier. All that lovely off-form
> concrete turning black and green :-)
If you're teaching then I don't have to tell you that Mies is almost
facistically about control. We have a cluster of Seagram's clones here in
TO, and they have aged very well compared to all the other towers. They are
a bunch older than the rest of the modern ones, but the idea behind them
continues to resonate, though I don't know how many architectural fashions.
They're very sophisticated.
>>(IOW, where are you?)
>
> Tropical Australia.
Must be paradise. Lat. and long.?
> Met Murcutt when I was teaching architecture at PNG
> University of Technology - he used to come over every so often to do
> sessions in the design studio.
>
> Here the glass panels would not only attract insects, but would end up
> almost opaque - gunk from cane toads hurling themselves at it :-)
C'mon. All you need is a small crew of window cleaners until the
photographer shows up!
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