Architecture is cool

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Crazy Fool

I'm kinda smashed and I felt like posting this. Appreciate architecture more than you do when youre just on the street. Learn something useful instead of the usual non-skigabber uselessness. Ill post a new architect and/or project every day(whatever time period I decide to post it)

Feel free to post other great works, or works of your own.

First Architect-
Louis Khan

salk institute(fucking awesome building)

Fisher house-picture does not do it justice. Possibly one of the sickest houses ever built.

Nov 24 2007 2:31AM

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ATLskier

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another picture of the salk institute

Nov 24 2007 2:32AM

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scurry4

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Im a freshman majoring in architecture right now, and its amazing I love it. Its a ton of work and right now mim in mostly drawing and some history, nothing really past the gothic era yet. So far I have done alot of work on renaissance arch. Brunelleschi's work is absolutly amazing. Its really cool to see how ideas are adopted and twisted around over hundreds of years.

Nov 24 2007 3:11AM

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JeffersonDavis

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Insane

architectural is about as coooool as a barrel of dicks

Nov 24 2007 3:49AM

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Hoodbum

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post of the year

Nov 24 2007 3:57AM

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ATLskier

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the south will never rise again, faggot

Nov 24 2007 11:14AM

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Poomba

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Loner

At my high school we have an architecture class that i am in. Its not so much design as it is technical aspects of homebuilding and autocad.

Nov 24 2007 12:11PM

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doublexl

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i love the symetrey of the first building.

Nov 24 2007 12:46PM

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cab509

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I really like architecture, but I'm not a huge fan of all of the modern stuff. Its too cold and lacks the emotion that used to be around in old buildings. I mean don't get me wrong, all the new contemporary buildings are very expressive, using a lot of sweeping curve, organic shapes, and hard defined edges, along with the varying material types and finishes used to create a feeling, but I prefer old brick and stone buildings that are built with character and a certain warmth about them that seems to e lacking in a lot of todays new design studies.

That first one though has an amazing view.

Nov 24 2007 12:48PM

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ISkiSwitch

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this is the dorm I'm living in now... the guy who designed them is awesome.

Nov 24 2007 3:02PM

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snocompton

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Architecture is fucking dope. My sister is in the Architecture program and the university of oregon and the shit she designs is fucking amazing.

Nov 24 2007 3:42PM

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Bangor

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I'm just going to name drop: Frank Lloyd Wright is my favorite architect. Followed closely by the majority of his contemporaries (mostly Americans, but there are others) from the 1940's-1960's era. Most of the still standing construction in America was done in that time frame; which I find fascinating when I it today, over 40 years later. Definitely America's glory days, that's for sure.

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