Rafael Canogar - Tête, 2005

Pablo Picasso and Le Corbusier on the site of Unite d'habitation in Marseille 1949 | © FLC/ADAGP

Diving Into the Delicately Detailed Woodwork of @mcnabbstudio

To see more of James’ works and the studio life with his wife Stephanie and the two shop dogs Buster and Riley, follow @mcnabbstudio

“I could talk for days about wood,” admits Philadelphia artist James McNabb (@mcnabbstudio). “Its rich history. The amazing varieties of colors, patterns and textures that nature has created in it.”

Inspired by his father, a skilled carpenter, James took his first woodworking class in high school. “At that time, I struggled with the typical textbook/chalkboard style classroom dynamic, and felt more comfortable in a setting with hands-on learning techniques,” he remembers. Now, with his own studio and over a decade of experience in making wooden objects, James, who’s 30, creates delicately detailed sculptures of urban landscapes. “Like a painter uses a paintbrush, I work primarily on a band saw to produce abstracted architectural forms,” he says, adding, “The work is designed to be engaging from a distance, and like a city skyline from afar, reveal layers of patterns and textures as the journey gets closer to the object.”

Graphic Dialogue

Here is how two architects on 50′s collaborate in the design of a church. Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa on ‘La chiesa di Corte de Cadore’. The most interesting thing is to realize how a graphic dialogue evolves from a plot of ideas to the progressive definition of a structural system with the study of the section and articulation of the individual parts with accurate.

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Michael Heizer, Dissipate No. 8 of Nine Nevada Depressions, 1968.

Tyler Harlen | VUW Architecture about a Mosque

Koshino house, Barcelona.

Tadao Ando

A Date With Data. MArch [Prof] Design Thesis. Hayden Grindell

The Ark and the Anchor (a series of translations between narrative and models begins with an image of the surface of Mars. This site generates a discourse on the communicative possibilities of architecture as a tectonic language. The narrative speaks of an architecture that is built on Earth and delivered to Mars, in which one moment of impact transforms an ideal geometry into an idiosyncratic form. Fragmented and negotiating forces, the architecture responds by changing itself and the landscape)

Yuan Feng

Vertical crematorium - Horaţiu C. Vâlcu

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Davide Fracasso, Giacomo Mason, ‘Seosomun Park Regeneration, New Christian Church and Parish’, 820x520 mm, 2015.

Nervi’s design for the grand stand of a stadium, Rome

Charlie Hodgson, Untitled I (Tribalism, Brutalism & Defensive Architecture), 2015, Ink, Acrylic and Coloured Pencils on Panel.

Aidan Conway, Thaltej Metro, pencil on trace and photoshop,  2015.