Here are the last 5 of the 10 image slide show introduction I gave to my classmates back at the beginning of my first grad school studio. As long as the last three years have felt, these 10 images still seem important. Much of the work has receded in importance, but the themes and ideas... Continue Reading →
Tonight I had the chance to reconnect with a few classmates and our first grad school studio critic. Our first assignment of grad school, back in Architecture 501, was to set up and present a 10 image slideshow as a means of introducing us to each other. I'll show my first 5 today and the... Continue Reading →
A few screen shots of a mobile lab for electronic waste processing in Downtown Dhaka. Given how scarce land is, this lab would set up shop under a 'flyover' (overpass), while a permanent shop is built along side it. Eventually, the lab would leave its environmental protection systems behind and take processed material to a... Continue Reading →
'Out of sight, out of mind' applies often to most of the goods we buy. Everything I own or use has had a long life before it got to me and will likely have a long and much more sordid life after. As abstract concepts, it is easy to understand that the cell phone in my... Continue Reading →
Last semester a representation class (landscape sketch class) asked students to think about what an ideal city would look like. The class looked at various cities in Italy, Morocco, France, Switzerland. My ideal city was informed by medinas in North Africa.
The Slingshot is a daily planner with an anarchist theme citing historical episodes of radical protest or revolution on each day of the year. A friend of mine had one and used it religiously, but I never bothered to track one down for my own use. I did need something that could fit in my pocket, so... Continue Reading →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1uwQVtHHOQ Last summer I tagged along with the Waterfall Swing as it went to the Forecastle Festival in Louisville Kentucky. The project is a great example of interactive art, as a sheet of water is printed out around anyone on the swing. At a music festival, long lines and lots of liability restrict the sculpture... Continue Reading →
A few months ago a video rendering made the rounds on the internet showing what the Sagrada Familia would look like in 2026. Back in 2009 I was fortunate to get a tour of the site. I feel conflicted about the completion of the project. Gaudi's plans are followed like scripture, with interesting decisions and... Continue Reading →
Another look at a group project from last year, this time located in Venezuela. Guyana City represents much of what city planners got wrong in the 1950s, with enormous roads and acres of median strips dividing neighborhoods. This scheme, completed with Rebecca Fischman and Tadashi Kikuno, had a series of stadia proposed along the large... Continue Reading →
A year ago I took a very interesting class called Case Studies in Contemporary Urbanism, Landscape Architecture and Design, taught by Jonathan Barnett, David Gouverneur and Aron Cohen. As part of the class students broke off into interdisciplinary teams (the class was a good mix of architects, landscape architects and urban planning students) to complete... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 