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“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

—Maya Angelou, author, poet, civil rights activist

02.

Tadao Ando References.

Hans Georg Esch & Florian Yeh have visited many of Tadao Ando’s buildings and compiled this short ‘reference’ film containing architectural snippets that try to show the small details that make up each build. Watch and be inspired.

—via HG Esch

03.

Pleasant, somehow.

In 2019, Muji went around the world filming and photographing scenes in which people were pictured cleaning. This was before COVID-19 swept the globe. They had been wondering if the very essence of human beings lies dormant in the everyday and ordinary work of cleaning, which transcends culture and civilization.

Humans are the only animals that create cities and environments by arranging them to suit us. This is why the environment that has been modified by humans according to their needs is written as “人工” in Japanese, literally “human+ work/craft/ingenuity”, and translated as “man-made”. The man-made should be comfortable, but when there is a proliferation of materials that are too corrosive or erosive of nature, like plastic and concrete, people begin to long for nature.

—via Muji

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Visions Not Previously Seen.

Legendary designer and artist Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon is famous for her pioneering use of large-scale graphic designs on and inside architecture. She is a big deal, but you wouldn't know it from talking to her. Mixing Swiss graphic design principles with West Coast Pop art stylings, Bobbie essentially created ‘supergraphics’, and in doing so shaped the history of design.

—via Adobe Creative

05.

Drawing Conclusions.

In 2019, Monocle Radio looked at the unusual history of architectural drawings and debate the advantages of putting pencil to paper with architect Sam Jacob.

—via Monocle

06.

Sketch the City.

In 2016 sketch artist Carl Lavia and photographer, Lorna Le Bredonchel began their epic 69 cities 'walk', which aims to create a portrait of the whole United Kingdom through large-scale sketches of its 69 cities.

Lorna begins by creating a basic pencil 'scaffold' of buildings across the paper, Carl then overlays with 'sketchy' pencil forms. The work is fleshed out over time until a particular energetic feel of the buildings is attained. The final stage is to solidify all the pencil marks in ink. From a distance, the work looks like a traditional map, showing an aerial view of roads, bridges, familiar buildings, and well-known landmarks; a closer inspection reveals a lightweight impressionist style, structures hovering and disintegrating, suggesting the process of creation, collapse, and re-creation, mirroring the dynamic rhythm of the city itself.

—via Sketch 'n the City

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With Love to Alvar and Aino.

The inspiration for With Love to Alvar and Aino is right there in the name. The works of Alvar and Aino Aalto provided a starting point for the design of the apartment renovation intended for a young couple. The architects, Radical Passive, focused the dwelling style on light, warmth, and timelessness, all features which Alvar and Aino Aalto are known for in their works.

—via Radical Passive

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Plinth House.

This is a coastal home for a waterman, a swimmer, a rock climber. A home to fulfil our longing for nature and adventure. A bouldering wall covers the Southern facade. The ground floor is surrounded by walls of glass, allowing natural light to fill every living moment. Sleeping quarters at first floor are suspended in an open cradle of wood for warmth and seclusion. Outside stepping stone monoliths cascade down to a small beach. Each monolith has a function, sometimes a plunge pool, sometimes a barbecue, other times just a plinth with an open fire. Plinth house invites you to take part in a new kind of spatial luxury to enjoy the rarest of commodities - time and silence.

—via Hyde + Hyde Architects

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Making Architecture: Wayfarer House.

Join us for a journey into the making of Wayfarer House. Located along the Atlantic coast of Wales, the home emerges from the hillside to form a self-sustainable plinth for family living.

—via Hyde + Hyde Architects

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