blog wunderlust : 18th June 2012

our bodily contact with the edges of space is central to our awareness of ourselves and our spatial location

Tom Porter

Provide Poor With Better-Designed Homes | Brutal buildings: the architecture of Eastern Europe | Interior Awards 2012 finalists | What is the future of the built environment? | Amen: A Pictorial Journey to Historic Churches in Jamaica | An Interactive Journey Through New York's Roofscape Makeover | The Architect as Urban Care Provider | Mirror, Mirror by David Adjaye | Barbadian & Grenadian Architects on show during London 2012 Olympics |


last word: Energy Efficiency and the Proposed Building Code for Jamaica and Wind, Solar…Coconuts: Small Island Developing States Commit to Renewable, Sustainable Energy for All

blog wunderlust : 25th June 2012

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Lewis Mumford

Vittorio Garatti, School of Ballet, Cuban National Art Schools. [Photo by Adrián Guerra Rey]

Architect Zaha Hadid made dame | Red telephone boxes with a twist | 2012 Sketch Showdown | Pool on a background of Field of Barley | Landscape Architecture? There’s an app for that! | Here's why Google got rid of SketchUp | I'm a city changer | The 9 Best Countries For Architects To Find Work | In Its First Life, an Oil Platform; in Its Next, a Reef? | Iraqi Mud Architect Talks Sustainability and Corruption in the Middle East |

last word: Foster to redesign Fidel Castro’s School of Ballet

new software: OrthoGraph Architect 3D for iPad

blog wunderlust : 11th June 2012

Space is the breath of Art

Frank Lloyd Wright

(c)Madan Mahatta /PhotoInk

Future Architects Brace for Major Hike in Student Loan Interest Rates | Study: People prefer walkable communities | 2012 Serpentine Pavilion opens in London | Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest 2012 | Living Building Challenge | Forget Big-Box Stores. How About A Big-Box House? | Habitat for Humanity Tries Big-Scale Approach to Housing in Oregon | Delhi’s Modernist Architecture in Photographs | The battle over a war memorial | Colouring Outside the Lines


last word: What Is It About the [Cuban] Art Schools?

blog wunderlust : 4th June 2012

The artist, the architect, first senses the effect that he intends to realize and sees the rooms he wants to create in his mind's eye.

Adolf Loos

Eisenhower Family Still Unhappy with Gehry’s Memorial Design | The Land Art of Sylvain Meyer | Streets for People: Sunset Triangle Plaza | 2012 AIA Housing Awards for Architecture | Finalists of the 100 Mile House Competition | Step Inside a Creative Mind Installation | New directions for young architects: TECHNOLOGY | Lost Lakes of the Empire State Building [&] Saves Millions of Dollars in First Year of Energy Efficiency Plan | Constructive criticism: the week in architecture

last word: Glenn Murcutt and the Wisdom of the Elders

blog wunderlust : 28th May 2012

I want to see the traces, stains and dirt of my work, the layering of erased lines, errors and failures, the repeated re-tracings on the drawings, and the collage of corrections, additions and eliminations on the page that i am writing….These traces help me feel the continuity and purposefulness of the work, to dwell in the work, and to grasp the multiplicity, the plasticity as it were, of the task.

Juhani Pallasmaa (The Thinking Hand)

That Awkward Moment When You’re Not Invited to the Opening of Your Own Building | Frank Lloyd Wright Sketch Misinterpreted? | Costa Rica Architectural Firm Building Energy Efficient Homes To Combat Rising Electricity Rates | RIBA Falls Short on BIM, Say U.K. Architects | Kanye West hired OMA to design a temporary polyhedral pavilion | interactive map showing the location of Banksy's artworks | mid century (garage) door |


last word: trust me I'm an (unlicensed) architect and other sh*t architects say (part 1)

Blog Wunderlust : 21st May 2012

The world is how you see it. Don't let anyone else's image of it determine yours.

Farshid Moussavi

From Bauhaus to Rundhaus | Silent World: What Makes A City A City | Marina Abramovic Institute in Hudson by OMA | Archifocus Awards | Work/life/work balance | 2nd Annual Small Project Award Winners | Calling All Women: Finding the Forgotten Architect | Now towering over London's Olympic Park: 'The Godzilla of public art'| Rehabilitating Vacant Lots Improves Urban Health and Safety | After the Meltdown: Where does Architecture go from here? | A Miniature City Built with Metal Typography |

last word: Bold, frank criticism can only nourish architecture

blog wunderlust : 14th May 2012

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Maya Angelou

Boring still life objects turned into intriguing erotic images | Love it or hate it: Toronto’s OCAD building | Walk [your city] | Prefab houses... for birds | Where the Heart Is — This Sri Lankan architect knows | Amid the Art Fair Rush: “Expanding Museums” at Frieze Talks | Google SketchUp sold to Trimble Navigation | Inside the Kowloon Walled City | Tadao Ando Book Clock | The Promise Of The $300 House And Other Reverse Innovations | Want Maximum Value? Hire An Architect |

last word: Beware Of 'Fake' Architects!

blog wunderlust : 7th May 2012

[Architecture should answer] the needs of the people, not the needs of luxury.

Hannes Meyer

Bauhaus-inspired building blocks | The House That Doe Built | Aga Khan Award ups prize fund to $1m | Meier Tapped for Office Project in Trendy Rio Neighborhood | Jimenez Lai: Not just the comic book architect | Trailing a Master Photographer in Los Angeles | In Praise of Impermanence | One chair a week | Lego Architecture with Rem Koolhaas | The Next Generation of BIM | Installations: Cornelia Konrads | architectural souvenirs | Zaha's Maxxi museum faces closure |

last word: 5 Questions for Bjarke Ingels

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email

blog wunderlust : 30th April 2012

[In an industrial age] the house is the last of the handcrafted objects

Eugene Weston

IKEA Remakes Sustainable Versions Of Classic Pieces | Iron Chef Designer Challenge | Shigeru Ban’s Christchurch Cardboard Cathedral Gets the Green Light for Construction | A Prefab, Short on the Fab | Iraq aims to revive Baghdad's 'lost' Le Corbusier building | World-Architects e-magazine | 2012 New Zealand Architecture Awards | 10 Supercool SoCal Modern LEGO Houses | Classic Coastal Garden Style | Architects Designing Jamaica's Future | Architects Designing Jamaica's Future |

last word: Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center gets a rude new neighbor

blog wunderlust : 23rd April 2012

In Rome there are streets and squares. People gather in the squares and move in the streets. We don't do that we build suburbs

Michael Graves

Inside the new-look King's Cross station [video] | Technology and design: making the world around us | Under the Hood | Artists Create Iconic Skyscrapers from LEGO | Bus-top gardens | Killing Modernism with Fuzzy Math, Bad Information and False Choices | Architect Maya Lin: what's missing | Architecture in Baghdad | Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing | An overview of completed and under-construction projects in Christchurch


last word: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, Again - Lessons in the Art of Pillow-Fort Construction

blog wunderlust : 16th April 2012

A building can be designed to satisfy 'by the month' with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction 'by the moment,' with the thrill of a lover

Richard Neutra

Greg Knobloch designs a prison for urban environments | 5 Simple ways to travel like an Architect | New Ferrari Museum Looks Like The Hood Of A Hot Car | earth "lego" blocks | A flexible city of strangers | Walk the green carpet | World’s First ‘Lickable’ Elevator | grow your own furniture | The Truth About “House Hunters” | The Architect and the Urn | Is There Zambian Architecture? | How buildings could come to life [video]

last word: Syracuse University Library Prepares to Launch Marcel Breuer Digital Archive

blog wunderlust : 9th April 2012

The Manifesto for a New Urbanism That Came Before 'New Urbanism' | Good architecture was their MISSION | Google saves energy by cooling its buildings with ice | Paul Goldberger Moves To Vanity Fair, Eulogies For Architecture Criticism Not Far Behind | City Of Fog | Bridge Made Of 3-D Pixels Can Take On Countless Configurations | Lessons on Zoning from Miami | Royal Flush: How Roger Thomas redesigned Vegas |

software : Tekla Offers BIMsight 1.4 for Free

last word: Congress for New Urbanism promotes New Urbanism with twelve pictures of not-New Urbanism

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email

blog wunderlust : 26th March 2012

We all see more of architecture than any other art. Every street is a gallery of architect's work

CE Montague

The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work | The Influence of Bauhaus on Architecture in Early Palestine and Israel | Michael Kimmelman Will Not Play Your Architecture Games | iPad App to Replace Printed Blueprints? | Saving Rudolph, Once Again and the Two-Year Renovation of Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat is Complete | New Getty initiative aims to boost preservation of modern architecture | Calatrava's Peace Bridge to open tomorrow today in Calgary | BIG is working on a new residential tower in Miami

last word: This is the most colorful and fun police station in the world

blog wunderlust : 19th March 2012

Architecture, however complex and subtle it may be in its more sophisticated forms, can begin with something as simple as sitting on a sand-dune looking out to sea.

Simon Unwin

'Postcards From the Architect', An Architect's Take On Famous Landmarks | An architect's hat trick | if a man tells you his favorite book is The Fountainhead, run away | Critics' reactions to London's new bus | Alvaro Siza in Machu Picchu | New Digicel Building Downtown Kingston – A Catalyst for Development? | Moleskine Inspiration & Process in Architecture Series | Tom Kundig on the Frey House II | The Shapes of Hardcore Architecture | Visions for the Last Section of the High Line | Boldface Buildings in the Cold Light of Now

Last Word: Don't forget the FUN in function

Blog Wunderlust : 12th March 2012

The only way to make truly sustainable architecture is to connect our buildings to nature - not insulate them from it!

Rachel Armstrong

Historic Building Lies In Ruins | Cities are banking on the arts | An urban world (UNICEF population projections) | Habitat 67 wins LEGO contest and (LEGO) architect| Can designers fix America’s suburban foreclosure challenges? | (video) Man Moves Huge Blocks! | Library Parks Foster Community in Colombia | Architects push to make Denver's Santa Fe Arts District more pedestrian friendly | Secret City: The Illegal Architecture of Tawian | Peter Marino Likes Playing Bad Cop


last word: women architects - f’ing cool

Blog Wunderlust : 5th March 2012

"Fashion is architecture. It's a matter of proportions"

Coco Chanel

Engineer Calls Chicago's Aqua Tower "Architectural Pornography" | Snow Drawings | Norihiko Dan: harmonizing earth and architecture | architectural hair | Work Wear: Office Style at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | The little Pritzker Committee that Almost Could | Architect Uses Ancient Techniques To Cool Modern Building in India | Signature Design by Gehry | Why Don’t We Read About Architecture? | Will Pritzker Be Pivotal for China? | the Value of Architecture

last word: 2012 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism

blog wunderlust : 27th February 2012

If we would lay a new foundation for urban life, we must understand the historic nature of the city

Lewis Mumford

Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making | Anywhere working: Finding the office of the future | Lib at Large: Frank Lloyd Wright's long lost Marin dog house | Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature | Private, Public, or Common: Who Owns Space? | RIP: Luis Mansilla | Bauhaus-Style Collages Prevail in 2012 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship Competition | How A Tiny Central American Country Is Getting Richer And Saving The Environment

last word: Chinese Architect Wang Shu Awarded 2012 Pritzker Prize

blog wunderlust : 20th February 2012

The purpose of good design is to ornament existence, not to substitute for it

George Nelson

Norma Merrick Sklarek dies; pioneering African American architect | Marseille's Cité Radieuse damaged by fire | A Contemporary Retreat With a 100-Year-Old Soul | Architect who designed and built home charged in firefighter death | Calatrava undertakes first project in Taiwan | modernist architect Eugene Weston III dies at 87 | Back from Dead, Damien Hirst to build 500 eco-homes in Britain | Feline Modernism | 20,000 LEGOs to Create a Playfully Pixelated New York City Apartment |

last word: Architect Valentines and For the Love of Architecture

blog wunderlust : 13th February 2012

A building can be designed to satisfy 'by the month' with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction 'by the moment,' with the thrill of a lover

Richard Neutra

©Gerd Ludwig/National Geographic

Photograph from the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine

India's richest shrine goes green | Giant Binoculars Everywhere! | How Plywood Revolutionized Design And Changed The World (No, Really!) | The Organic Architecture of the Smith Mansion | Muslim America moves away from the minaret | How four Chinese-American architects helped shape Los Angeles | Why I became an architect - part II | The architecture meltdown | Encyclopedia of Home Improvement, 1970 | Ai Weiwei [Herzog & de Meuron and Engineers Arup] to Design 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

last word: Tomorrowland - Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan.
Rich in oil and other mineral resources, Kazakhstan has lavished billions on the new capital, inviting some of the world's leading architects to showcase their work on the Left Bank of the Esil River, which separates the administrative "new city" from the older, mostly Soviet built district on the Right Bank. The results are eclectic, visually arresting, and not to everyone's taste. But love it or hate it, Astana is here to stay.

blog wunderlust : 6th February 2012

And perhaps architecture has always wanted to be a theatre of memories

Umberto Eco

Think Outside the Cube: Why the Office Isn't the Best Workspace | ‘Every year, more and more women design larger buildings, win competitions, run the RIBA and become new role models’ | Irishman makes "billion-euro home" of shredded notes | Is There Anything Marc Newson Hasn’t Designed? | Seattle woman “marries” building to protest its demolition | moby's photo blog of strange and beautiful architecture in los angeles | 5 fresh visions for Navy Pier

last word: Tire-toi une bûche' an installation by Julie Tremblay and Appareil Architecture

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email