Normality has resumed

Whirlwind of a Monday. This is gonna be a heckuva week!

IBM Archives: Exhibit: Antique attic, vol. 1: SSEC Control Desk

via Boing Boing. Nice collection of IBM antique artifacts on ibm.com

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IBM Archives: Exhibit: Antique attic, vol. 1: SSEC Control Desk

via Boing Boing. Nice collection of IBM antique artifacts on ibm.com

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FLW School of Architecture Prefab

Via CoolHunting

Very cool prefab building system from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

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Habitat Machines by David Trautrimas

These are great! An exhibit open Sept 25 through Oct 19 in Toronto, ‘Habitat Machines’, by David Trautrimas. The images of futuristic apartment blocks and office buildings are created using everyday objects – coffee pots, razors, etc. Some are reminsicent of the 60’s/70’s Archigram work of Peter Cook.

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Architecture: Styrofoam Homes Are Typhoon-Resistant, Refillable with People or Coffee

(via Gizmodo). Gotta love these foam houses! According to the article each is only 175 pounds and is easily carried. The original article includes shots of the interiors which look surprising roomy! All the usual caveats regarding non-rectilinear room shapes apply, however.

Architecture: Styrofoam Homes Are Typhoon-Resistant, Refillable with People or Coffee

Digitally fabbed house for New Orleans rises at MOMA

Over at the TEDblog an article about a house fabricated entirely using a computer-controlled milling machine. The house has been designed and is being erected as part of the MoMA exhibition.

Larry Sass, from MIT’s department of architecture, is leading a team that’s building a digitally fabricated house in a vacant lot next to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. yourHOUSE is composed of thousands of interlocking pieces, cut on a ShopBot — a computer-controlled milling machine about the size of a conference-room table.

yourHOUSE is a ground-up rethinking of how we make a house. Sass and a team of students analyzed the traditional New Orleans shotgun house, using digital imaging tools and old-fashioned research, such as interviewing people who live in these wonderful little homes. They modeled a way to build a house out of parts that could be created on-site and assembled in days without nails or screws. For the MOMA project, the parts were cut from recycled plywood on two ShopBots in Virginia and trucked to New York, where Sass and his team have been slotting them together to make a classic NOLA cottage, complete with front porch and lacy wooden trim.

TEDBlog: Digitally fabbed house for New Orleans rises at MOMA

Here Comes the Neighborhood – A Housing Project, MoMA-Style

NYT reports on new show at MoMA, “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” which documents the state-of-the-art and history of prefab dwellings. Photo above is of Kaufman and Ruf’s System3 house being assembled for the show.

Here Comes the Neighborhood – A Housing Project, MoMA-Style – NYTimes.com

An Interactive Map of Beijing

The New York Times online includes an interactive map feature describing/showing new architectural monuments in Beijing. Includes links to photos and videos of the new airport terminal, national stadium, television headquarters, acquatic center and more.

An Interactive Map of Beijing – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com