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

Link

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

BBtv: Joel Johnson interviews Syd Mead, part 1

Boing Boing’s video blog BBtv has a nice segment where they interview designer and futurist Syd Mead. Enjoy!

BBtv: Joel Johnson interviews Syd Mead, part 1. – Boing Boing

Austinist: Learning From Beijing

Photo of Beijing’s 2nd Ring Road by xiaming on Flickr

Austinist reports today that UT School of Architecture students will be collaborating with students at Tsinghua University to design green spaces for Beijing.

Fritz Steiner, dean of UT’s architecture school, said planning green
infrastructure for one of the world’s fastest growing cities could
provide insights for future projects in Austin. “Both cities have a
very rapid growth rate and are doing what they can to accommodate it,”
Steiner said. “The scale is different, but the issues are similar.
Traffic on the Fourth Ring Road is no different than a traffic jam on
I-35. People in both cities want to move to the most beautiful parts of
the city, but as more people move there the qualities attracting them
there decline.”

Austinist: Learning From Beijing

Handwritten Typographers

This is just plain cool. Themaninblue.com looks to see if there is a connection between typographers – those that produce typefaces professionally – and their handwriting.

Handwritten Typographers