How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months. Day two of reflections on Michael Sorkin's list of 250 things every architect should know. "Find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start being real" - The Real World intro. What is there to learn? Boundaries, conflict resolution, a... Continue Reading →
The feel of cool marble under bare feet. I'm hoping to dust off this blog with daily notes on a list of 250 things an architect should know, according to Michael Sorkin. This exercise is not novel (see original art and posters) but suites me as I am beginning to study for the architecture license... Continue Reading →
[From the summer] - At Lafayette and 1st St sits a wedge shaped building similar to the Flatiron. This building, without the patronage and protection afforded the Flatiron, has has additions and subtractions and a few billboards stapled on, but the result is this bow-like extension, pointing north and culminating in, somewhere inside at the... Continue Reading →
Part of no longer being in school means I have time to read all sorts of things that I skipped while in school. I recently read most of Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture (Towards an Architecture, or Towards a New Architecture), and am trying to finish Atlas of Novel Tectonics and Complexity and Contradiction in... Continue Reading →
With December here I hope to end the year the way I started, resurrecting this daily blog as a means of looking back on past work, reflecting on readings and essays, and presenting new drawings. Today is a look back on a series of meditation spaces, designed with bamboo in mind (however most of the... Continue Reading →
On Teh Road has begun a new life, finding a temporary home with a friend who has yet to read the book. I'll find out from him if the medium is conducive to reading the prose, and if the wire hanger and string hold up over time. Hopefully it is as close to the original... Continue Reading →
Back on April 1st I wrote about my efforts to transcribe the book On The Road, specifically the 2007 version of the unedited first draft, all 125,00 words of it on to a 50 yard roll of trace paper via an electric typewriter. The typewriter is falling apart, but the scroll is finished. more to... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 