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With the demolition of the Guthrie Theater Minneapolis in 2006 not only lost a landmark building but also a key work of the architect Ralph Rapson (1914-2008), for three decades also the head of the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture. A graduate of Cranbrook Academy Rapson not only was a convinced modernist but also a gifted teacher who before settling in Minnesota in 1954 taught at the New Bauhaus School in Chicago and the MIT. Beyond his teaching Rapson of course also was a practicing architect and designer, a dual talent that on the one hand got him selected as one of the architects for the Case Study House program (his design sadly never was built) but also motivated Knoll to hire him as designer. With this said and against the background of a large oeuvre it is surprising that the present volume still is the one substantial publication on Rapson’s work: „Ralph Rapson - Sixty Years of Modern Design“ by Rip Rapson, Jane King Hession and Bruce N. Wright was published by Afton Historical Society in 1999 and offers a comprehensive overview of the architect’s life and career. Lavishly illustrated the book follows Rapson’s development along its major steps that include his selection as architect of the US embassies in Copenhagen and Stockholm, the imposingly brutalist Cedar Square West housing complex in Minneapolis or the Pillsbury House, one of many impressive residences he designed during his long career. What the book also highlights is the stunning quality of Rapson’s drawings that more often than not feature potential occupant relaxing or carrying out their daily tasks. As the authors explain this feature also hints at Rapson’s conviction that architecture forms and supports life. Particularly charming also are the anecdotes about Rapson the teacher who somewhat roguishly encouraged his students to all kinds of shenanigans.

In conclusion the present monograph is a truly wonderful and highly readable book that is recommended to anyone interested in learning more about an American architect who unjustly isn’t very well-known outside of the US.

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goth boi

#bat #battttt #cute #flying #mauritius #photography #300mm #sky #animal #nature #wildlife

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Red-whiskered Bulbul Conde Bird- Departing

#bird #conde #mauritius #wildlife #beauy #aesthetic #nature

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two bro birbs chillin’

#birbs #birds #bird #flying #free #escapism #photography #nikon #tamron #300mm #sky #sunset #mauritius

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birb on dead tree

#birb #bird #photography #wildlife #aesthetic #sunset #mauritius #cute

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Mauritian sky, sunset.

13 Feb 2022 @18:55

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Cold weather ☕ & clouds🍨

Moon+nuage+urban antennas

#clouds #aesthetic #nuage #moon #mood #lofi #afternoon #sunset #pastel

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Architecture Site analysis of South Geelong.

(Masters of Architecture- Deakin University)

This is one of my best site analysis graphic showing a wide variety of useful data in a compiled axonometric view of the site.

#site analysis #geelong #architecture #architecture graphics #graphics #australia #studio #architecture studio #architecture student

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Demonic

Datsun 240z

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Handover

Honda S2000

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Nissan 180SX 1993. Finally finished modeling this :D I tried going as detailed as possible. Modeled in 3ds Max and rendered with vray.

#Silvia #Nissan #180sx #Jdm #Nissan silvia #Car #Vray #vrayrender #3dsmax #Cgi

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So, people, what are your means of escapism? I'm curious to know about other people's idea of what escapism is and from what they escape from 😃

#Escapism #Question #Tell me your story #deep thoughts #destress

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Longboard illustration

🐈_New hand drawn illustration on my longboard. Acrylic + ink pen

#art #artwork #sketch #illustration #cat #longboard #skateart #skateboard #cat #katana #acrylic #aesthetic #mood #mood_of_the_day #lofi

#aesthetic #art #artwork #mood #illustration #Sketch #Lofi #Skateboard #Longboard #Longboard art #Skateboard art #Cat #Cat illustration #Cat art

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things that are always beautiful now matter how bad things are

sunsets

stranger’s smiles

roses

people reuniting at the airport

the smell of books

the euphoria you get when you’re way past tired

butterflies

hugs

the sparkle in someone’s eyes when they talk about something they love

rainbows

the first bite of a meal you’ve been looking forward to

when you listen to a song you’ve never heard before and just feel it

dogs

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How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution With Land Art | Via

Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, located just 9 km southwest of the city, is the third busiest airport in Europe and one of the busiest in the world. In an average year, more than 63 million passengers pass through Schiphol in as many as 479,000 flights to and from various international destinations. That’s an average of about 1,300 flights every day, or nearly a flight every minute. In other words, Schiphol is very busy and very loud.

When the Dutch military first built a landing strip here in 1916, they chose the site because it was a polder —a broad and flat lowland that used to be the bed of a vast lake. Over the decades the flat expanse of the Haarlemmermeer polder became one of the most densely populated areas of the country, and the noise produced by the airport became an annoying problem for the residents.

For years, residents complained about the incessant rumbling din produced every time an aircraft took off. This type of noise, called ground-level noise, propagates across the flat and featureless Haarlemmermeer landscape that has nothing in between—no hills, no valleys— to disrupt the path of the sound waves. When the airport opened its longest runway in 2003, residents could hear the din more than 28 km away.

To tackle the noise problem, the airport brought in an unlikely candidate—an architecture firm called H+N+S Landscape Architects and artist Paul De Kort.

The idea to engage a landscape artist to solve a technical problem was born out of an accident. In 2008, after a failed attempt to control noise, the Schiphol Airport officials discovered that after the arable land between the runway and the surrounding settlements were ploughed, the noise dropped.

So Paul De Kort dug a series of hedges and ditches on the southwest of the airport, just past the edge of the runway. The distance between the ridges are roughly equivalent to the wavelength of the airport noise, which is about 36 feet. There are 150 perfectly straight and symmetrical furrows with six foot high ridges between them. These simple ridges have reduced noise levels by more than half.

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One Drawing Challenge 2019 | Via