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I love this building. I want to touch it.

by Katy Purviance on 05/01/08 @ 10:33:02 pm
Categories: I love this building | 119 words | 1437 views

When I saw this building, I knew I not only had to blog about it.

I had to start a new blog category. A new category for all the buildings I come across that reach into my very soul and makes me gasp, “Whoa. I love this building.”

(So that’s what I named the category. “I love this building.")

This is Triptyque’s building on Columbia Street.

They even have a video of section cuts.

I love this building

And a photo timeline of its construction.

What I love the most is the way the front steps line up and become the facade. The vertical surface and the horizontal surface ARE THE SAME SURFACE. And you can practically WALK UP THE WALL.

I love this building

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Walk like an Egyptian

by Katy Purviance on 05/01/08 @ 10:10:24 am
Categories: Field Trips, Videos | 86 words | 608 views

I’ve been putting together the FOURTH Architecture Addiction Field Trip…

to Egypt!

I found this great video for you called “Visions of The Sphinx and Pyramids.”

Stay tuned for more information.

Remember, if you sign up for the Official Architecture Addiction mailing list, you’ll receive the details for this Field Trip (and all they other Field Trip I’m planning) before everybody else.

Look at the top right corner of this page for the mailing list sign up form.

And sign up now!

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places where you could probably learn more about designing and building in just a few days than I did after a year of grad school

YesterMorrow [Vermont]
The Solar Living Institute [California]
Cal Earth Institute [California]
Arcosanti [Arizona]
The Canelo Project [Arizona]
The Shelter Institute [Maine]
Cob Cottage Company [Oregon]
Real Architecture Workshop [South Dakota]
Vertical Clay [California]
Earth Hands and Houses [Poland]
Earthen Hand [Oregon]
Earthwood Building School [New York]
VERB [everywhere]

Know of some others I can add here? Let me know. Have you already visited some of these places...or planning on it? Let me know and I will feature your story and your photos here!

I am starting a new kind of architecture school. Unlike most architecture schools, you wouldn't have to submit GRE scores or good grades or letters of recommendation. You wouldn't have to put the rest of your life on hold for 3 to 5 years. You wouldn't have to accrue tens of thousands of dollars in debt. At my architecture school, anyone could come for a few weeks and learn how to build a house with their own two hands. My teachers would take skills and concepts from some of these other workshops I've listed above... except classes would be held year-round to make it easy to fit into your schedule. I would have a number of different campuses around the country that would teach building designs appropriate to the local climate. And I need your help. Can you donate land for a campus? Can you dotate books for a library? Can you teach a workshop? Can you provide start-up capital? Let me know.

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