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Ken Haskin
- Nov 13, 2016
- 1 min
Falling Water, Failing Frank? Wright, Right?
Many people love Falling Water, the house near Pittsburgh, PA, designed for the Kaufmann family by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Wright supposedly designed this in a few hours. The owner called saying he wanted to see how the design was progressing and drove out to see Mr. Wright. In the few hours Wright worked he did get it right. The spectacular concrete cantilevered main balcony did start to fall in the 80's, ironically due to water falling and causing spalling, but is now r
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Ken Haskin
- Oct 31, 2016
- 1 min
If you do not like red, Tschumi (sue me)
When I was at Columbia the DEAN! was Bernard Tschumi. (Rhymes with sue me) He was a suave dude who always wore a red scarf--weather permitting. He liked red so much that all of the Folly buildings he designed for Park De La Violette in Paris where crimson. There are 20 of these lil' fellas and each one is just a confection. Some actually serve a function, and others do no more than act as strange, sculptural forms. Got Architecture? #architecture #Tschumi #ParcDeLaVillette #k
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Kenneth Haskin, RA
- Oct 30, 2016
- 1 min
Otis, My Man!
Elisha Otis perfected the elevator by inventing an emergency brake to prevent falls. He presented this elevator at the1854 New York exhibition. We have to look up in modern cities because of his invention and an engineer/Architect named William LeBaron Jenny. Jenny's use of a steel skeleton fame allowed building to go tall and exploit the elevator's vertical abilities. JENNY'S design still had masonry bearing exterior walls but later these would dissapear to become "curtain w
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