Our green friends from Inhabitat sent us this interesting project. A new prefab recently built by the students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Their goal was to build a prototype prefab conducive to elegant and sustainable living within the heart of the desert landscape.
For more details, click here.
Visit the official website, here.
The Architecture of Croce, Aflalo and Gasperini / Aflalo and Gasperini Architects
Aflalo & Gasperini Arquitetos recently shared with us the book they are launching titled, “The Architecture of Croce, Aflalo and Gasperini.” The book details the 50 years history of one of the most important architecture office in Brazil. The…
Caramel: Forget Architecture / Caramel Architekten
We recently received a book from Caramel Architekten. We previously featured four of their projects if you would like a taste of their work (click here). The book is presented in both German and English and offers a wonderful insight…
Golconde: The Introduction of Modernism in India
Sited on the coastal edge of the Bay of Bengal, Golconde, a dormitory for the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, was designed by architects Antonin Raymond and George Nakashima. Golconde is a remarkable architectural edifice, seemlessly negotiating between…
it is nice to see prefab making it more into schools, it gives me hope that it one day could look really good in the real world….hell, this is what much of the suburbs should be, it would of made sense during the modernism movement and the love for machines they had at the time.
This project looks really good.
my friend tom says this is lame, and he just yawned.
i like tom!
I always understood FLW was not particularly for this type of architecture? Maybe Im wrong…
To me, it seems that Taliesin students should have been able to produce a much more unique, and interesting, design; especially with such an intimate learning environment, and access to many different materials. In my opinion, after viewing their web page for the project, this appears more to be an advertisement than a design project. The blog, however, is relatively interesting.
Either way, Im glad to see they are finally using construction techniques that we should have been using for the past three decades. I also agree with Tom…