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Ep 630 - Buildings (feat. Michael P. Murphy)
1:18worst place I could imagine spending the holidays." And I'm looking around. I was a young architecture student. And I'm looking around, I'm like, where is the architect? Where are 1:34That's So you were already in architecture. You were studying architecture before that.1:39I had been in architecture school for one semester. Oh, so you're you were pretty new. I was pretty new. I didn't know a damn thing.
Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria
6:52the farther you go back in time, the more sophisticated the architecture becomes. the stones, like most of the Maya world is just rubble that's about9:04Yeah. We're playing ball over here. Like it actually felt like a proper city. It's public architecture. Yes. Yes. And um what was interesting,13:09architecture. So, what they would do is I can't quite explain, you have to be like a chemist or scientist like really break down how they make um stucco, but
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See all ›Thom Mayne in conversation with Michael Volk at Live Talks Los Angeles
He argues that modern architecture education suffers from a lack of historical context and an over-reliance on powerful digital tools without foundational knowledge, leading to a decline in the ambition and social relevasummaryMayne identifies a crisis in American architecture characterized by a 'lack of will for innovation' and a lowering of ambitions, contrasting it with the high political and social ambitions of 20th-century modernism.takeawayModern education produces students who are proficient with tools like Maya but lack the 'literacy' to understand the cultural, political, and historical contexts that give architecture meaning, resulting in work that is takeaway
Architect Answers Architecture Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
Sally Mackereth discusses the practical and theoretical limits of architecture, emphasizing that structural feasibility, elevator logistics, and material constraints often dictate building height and design more than pursummaryBrutalist architecture is re-evaluated not as ugly but as 'honest' and 'truthful' due to its raw, unadorned nature, similar to a 'no makeup' look, contrasting with overly enhanced modern aesthetics.takeawayClimate directly influences vernacular architecture: steep roofs in Denmark manage snow, while Indian universities use heavy thermal mass and small windows for passive cooling, though modern AC reliance is changing this.takeaway
Travis Scott Tours a $65M Mansion, Talks Architecture, Movies, 'Utopia' Tour, & More | Cover Story
Travis Scott discusses his transition from touring musician to design visionary, highlighting his new role as Creative Visionary Officer at Oakley and his passion for brutalist architecture.summaryArchitecture influences design: Scott draws parallels between the raw, structural concrete of brutalist mansions and the sturdy titanium materials used in his Oakley eyewear designs, emphasizing durability and raw aesthetakeawayArchitectural education interest: Scott expresses a desire to study engineering architecture at top institutions like Berkeley or Harvard, driven by a fascination with the practical realization of designs rather than justakeaway
Life-Changing Insights From A Decade Of Self-Improvement - Tim Ferriss (4K)
He emphasizes creating a unique category rather than competing in crowded spaces, utilizing short-term experiments (3 months) to preserve optionality for long-term outlier events, and protecting deep focus time through rsummaryWeekly Architecture over Daily Rigidity: Structure the week by assigning specific themes to days (e.g., Mondays/Fridays for recording, Tuesdays for team calls) rather than micromanaging every hour of the day, allowing fltakeaway“The daily architecture just to make a 30,000 foot comment is less important to me than the weekly architecture.”quote