South Field Trip

Some of the group at the Beach in San Benedetto

Santa Croce in Lecce
The Cathedral in Trani
Matera
Ercolano- A city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius. Smaller than Pompeii but better preserved
Matera at Night

Ascoli Piceno Pictures

Piazza Arringo in Ascoli Piceno
Architecture School in Ascoli Piceno- an old monastery

Ancient Roman bridge in Ascoli
View of Ascoli from school


The first two weeks of the trip were spent in Ascoli Piceno. We worked in groups with Italian students from the University of Camerino on a small airport project.

Matera

Italy Tour Retrospective

While the Europe group is busy travelling, another group recently concluded its studies. Professor Kay Bea Jones led a group of students on a study abroad session in Italy last Spring, and they've been trickling back into the school bearing images. Above you can see the Piazza del Popolo in Ascoli.

Click here for a gallery of images from the Italy trip

ishtar gate

Babylon's Ishtar Gate at Berlin's Pergamon Museum.

I asked a brick what it wanted to be. It replied: "A LION!"

Dutch Embassy, Berlin

OMA's Dutch Embassy. Detail showing different approaches to wood as a material.

H+dM's Cottbus University Library

Interior of Herzog & de Meuron's Cottbus University Library (Germany)

The exterior (not shown) is an image comprised of overlaid letters... accumulated to the point where the letters are unintelligible, yet still recognizable as typography. The floor plates are overlaid/pained with the pure tones of a tv test-pattern, which serves several goals:

1. The mapping of the tv image onto the floor could be seen as a highly conceptual architectural move, encouraging the viewer to examine the relationship between the image (tv) and text (the facade / the stacks). Note that the facade is an example of text-becoming image. Is the coloring of the floor an example of image-becoming-text?

2. The color mapping / supergraphics of the tv-test pattern seems at first to be quite arbitrary, yet it could be understood as an overcoding - an additional organization system that exists outside of the organization of the stacks, and outside the organization of the building, yet can serve to reinforce both in unexpected ways. First of all, the floor plan of the building is rather amorphous, and there is little differentiation in the architecture itself. These ordered bands of color add order via experiential narrative -you enter (blue), take the stairs (purple/lime), find your book (orange), then retrace your steps, using the color as an aid.... perhaps it's not that complicated, but merely having one stair core in one color zone and the second in another helps the confused visitor orient himself.

(photo by Tyler)

Shalachet

“Shalachet” (Fallen Leaves), installation in the Jewish Museum's "Memory Void"

Possibly the best space/moment in Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum, a tall room/void filled with these metal faces. Visitors walk on the these, creating an eerie clanging.

Zaha Hadid at Wolfsburg

this is an example of the beautiful concrete at Hadid's Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany. The building itself leaves much to be desired (pales in comparison with her BMW plant in Leipzig), but the concrete, showing the imprint of the carefully-crafted wooden formwork, is a work of art.

Unfortunately...

finding an internet cafe that's capable of flickr uploads proved difficult in Berlin, so I'm writing from Praugue. This photo is from neither of those places: It's Walter Gropius's Bauhaus in Dessau.

Jewish Memorial

IMG_0565, originally uploaded by tyleroguy.

The first photos from the Europe trip have started hitting Flickr - this is Tyler's photo of the Jewish Memorial in Berlin, designed by Peter Eisenman.

Slovenia Group Update...

the site we are designing, originally uploaded by rbooth_18.

Hello everyone, just a quick note to say that, in addition to the Europe tour that's being led by Jackie Gargus, there's a group of Landscape Architecture students in Slovenia right now. This is the site they're working with in Trzic. You can follow their progress on the KSA website here:

http://knowlton.osu.edu/?content=60&travel=slovenia

Guggenheim Restoration

yeah

R is for Renovation.

Also: Rust

Guggenheim Restoration

The Guggenheim NYC is currently undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history. The Guggenheim NYC is currently undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history. The Guggenheim NYC is currently undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history. The Guggenheim NYC is currently undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history. The Guggenheim NYC is currently undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history. The Guggenheim NYC is currently undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history. The Guggenheim NYC is currently undergoing the most extensive renovation in its history.

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another flashy embeddy thing-o. this time from here

The Blob's Revenge

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Return of The Blog's Revenge

This post was done from Blogger, using the blogger thing to insert the images. Apparently the "blog this" option in flickr only allows you to have one photo, plus it can make the formatting a little weird when the blogger and flickr layouts compete...

However, as you can see from my previous posts, the inline photos are linked to the original flickr photo page, which is a nice touch. I believe the images in this post, when clicked, will simply bring up a new window with just the image, making it difficult to see the rest of the flickr album.

The Blob Returns

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oh, the huge manatee!

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Originally uploaded by evan.chakroff

A large sea creature and divers spotted at the Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus Ohio, during final reviews week of spring quarter 2007. This is a particularly strange sight for the following reasons:

1. The KSA has very few large bodies of water, none of which are nearly large enough to sustain a full-size manatee.

2. This particular manatee appears to be computer-generated, and I suspect may not be a manatee at all, but merely a cartoon illustration of one.

Further time for investigation is clearly needed. Stay tuned for at least 300 more blog posts on this particular issue.

(testing... testing....)

Kent, Ohio - Image Test

To demonstrate picture uploads, this is a test message with several images of Kent, Ohio.
These images were taken downtown, where a rail line runs by an abandoned factory and close to the central business district.