Ambiguous SpacesNannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos
2008
COMING SOON!
6.19.2008
Pamphlet Architecture 27
ToolingBenjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch
2005
“Spiraling produces a shape unlike any other because it is seldom experienced as geometry, but rather as energy.”
Pamphlet Architecture 26
13 Projects for the Sheridan ExpresswayJonathan Solomon
2004
“A negotiated hybrid between infrastructure and landscape will occupy a geometry that is Just-in-Time, responsive and equivocal, coming into being in an individually tailored form only when expressly required to, then changing into something else.”
Pamphlet Architecture 25
GravityJames Carchart, Frank Fantauzzi, and Terrence Van Elslander
2003
“Our work is like a lever: it opens, measures, illuminates, but also creates a connection. It weighs a moment against a place, and event against an object. It finds a crack and widens it.”
Pamphlet Architecture 24
Some Among Them Are Killers: Unmanaged Landscapes for Non US Military and Government UsersDavid Ross
2003
“...1969 also marked the death of architect Mies van der Rohe and the birth of ARPANET, a network of geographically separated computers that could exchange information...”
Pamphlet Architecture 23
Move: Sites of TraumaJohanna Saleh Dickson
2002
West Philadelphia. May 13, 1985. 11 people dead; 61 homes destroyed; 250 people left homeless. A city scarred.
Pamphlet Architecture 22
Other PlansMichael Sorkin Studio
2002
“A plan is the concretization of desire. Its excitement lies both in its components and in a vision of their interactions.... But, without an artistry that is specific to the whole, the university risks producing less than the sum of its parts.”
Pamphlet Architecture 21
Situation Normal...Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
1998
“[T]he possibility that beneath the surface of the normal exists the unfamiliar; that what is considered normal must, by definition, include the abnormal...”
Pamphlet Architecture 20
Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice, and MidgetsMary-Ann Ray
1997
“Parallel and Perpendicular to Parallel Walls, Field of Space with Everywhere Place, Network of Paths (Rhizomatic Labyrinth), Inverted Underground Grove...”
Pamphlet Architecture 19
Reading Drawing BuildingMichael Silver
1996
“The Book of Evasions is a diary used to quickly change the identity of its owner. It consists of a rotating panel secured to a metal frame.”
Pamphlet Architecture 17
Small BuildingsMike Cadwell
1996
“Building is a good solid word. Not just a noun; an object spied in a distant field or an image perused in a magazine. Building is also a verb; a creative act.”
Pamphlet Architecture 16
Architecture as a Translation of MusicElizabeth Martin, ed.
1994
“In 1967, Pierre Boulez wrote Pli Selon Pli, literally ‘ply upon ply’ or ‘fold upon fold,’ folding a poem by Stephane Malarme into a piece of music.”
Pamphlet Architecture 15
War and ArchitectureLebbeus Woods
1993
“Wherever buildings are broken by the explosion of bombs or artillery shells, by fire or structural collapse...they suggest new forms of thought.”
Pamphlet Architecture 14
MosquitoesKen Kaplan and Ted Krueger
1993
“THIS PAMPHLET WILL NOT CURE DOGMATIC GAS. Nor has is given a prescriptive procedure for the mutation required to become a MOSQUITO...”
Pamphlet Architecture 13
Edge of a CitySteven Holl
1991
“Cities are dangerous, but more so are the inventions about them. They cause journalists to sweat. Politicians extend lunch hours to escape seeing them...”
Pamphlet Architecture 12
Building MachinesRobert McCarter, ed.
1987
“[T]his ‘manual’ is not unlike those driver’s operating manuals often found stuffed into the glove compartments of diesel truck cabs, rarely retrieved...”
Pamphlet Architecture 11
Hybrid BuildingsJoseph Fenton
1986
“[D]espite their idiosyncratic and even strange manifestations, all the cited buildings possess the common ideas of HETEROSIS or HYBRID VIGOR.”
Pamphlet Architecture 10
Metafisica della ArchitetturaAlberto Sartoris
1984
“Pythagoras, Philosophers, Geometers, found that every Harmony emanates from proportion; this is as true for use as it was in these more fruitful centuries.”
Pamphlet Architecture 09
Rural and Urban House TypesSteven Holl
1982
“The dogtrot house was described by Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn: ‘It was a double house, and a big open place betwixt them was roofed and floored.’”
Pamphlet Architecture 08
Planetary ArchitectureZaha M. Hadid
1981
“Ignoring rules, she designed... discovering in Malevich’s apparent random composition ‘a method’ for meeting this demand: the method was called ‘tic-tic.’”
Pamphlet Architecture 07
Bridge of HousesSteven Holl
1981
“The birds fly around in the atrium all day while the man with no opinions looks at them from every room. Several cats roam at random up and down...”
Pamphlet Architecture 06
Einstein TombLebbeus Woods
1980
“[T]he humanity and suffering of a man—we may call him Einstein—are an apotheosis of passion and coldness. The life of a man is driven between extremes.”
Pamphlet Architecture 05
Alphabetical CitySteven Holl
1980
“In the alphabetical city—the contiguous portions of cities that evolved on gridiron plans—certain letter-like buildings recurred. The U, E, L, or the I type...”
Pamphlet Architecture 04
StairwellsLivio Dimitriu
1979
“...stair-well / stair-well / stair-well / stair-well / stair-well / well / well / well / well / well / well-stair-well / well-stair-well / well-stair-well / well-stair-well / ...”
Pamphlet Architecture 03
Villa Prima FacieLars Lerup
1978
“...soft, dry, hot, hard, and wet walls all share the outlines of the home, but they are filled…with luxurious softness, parched dryness, penetrating warmth.”
Pamphlet Architecture 02
10 Californian HousesMark Mack
1978
“The Houses try to integrate a formalistic belief system, a ritualistic social tale…into a whole system of thought.”
Pamphlet Architecture 01
BridgesSteven Holl
1977
“Some notes on Optimism: ‘Everything comes out of yourself, and darkness, despite what you can say, night has infinitely more possibilities than day.’”
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