butter paper australasia : greaseproof architecture links 2000 - 2013

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ABC TV: In The Mind Of The Architect see more open website in same window

transcripts from the ABC’s 2000 television series… with photos and slide shows.

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Ahead of the curve see more open website in same window

Aalto profile by Fiona MacCarthy.

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Architecture Australia - James Birrell see more open website in same window

Lengthy article with photos and interviews.

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Bruce Goff links and profile see more open website in same window

Maintained by James Schildroth.

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Bunshaft & Neimeyer see more open website in same window

Gordon Bunshaft (SOM) and Oscar Niemeyer both won the Pritzker Prize in 1988, two years before Bunshaft’s death. The Pritzker page has links to some photos and to Bunshaft’s rather short acceptance speech.

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Howlett and Bailey see more open website in same window

Architecture Australia obituary for Jeffrey Howlett 1928-2005, written by Geoffrey London

Ian Moore profile see more open website in same window

Expat kiwi Ian Moore talks the NZ Herald through his career – being an engineer at Arups, the switch to architecture, Engelen Moore and Sydney, and new work in Auckland at Wynyard Quarter .

On Norman Foster:

“He’d organise teams of up to six people and give them all the same challenge of designing a specific part of the building. On Friday afternoons, they’d come together with their ideas and by combining bits of each, piece together a solution.”

page listing related:   in  New Zealand   Auckland   Auckland  
 

In The Mind Of The Architect see more open website in same window

An ABC TV production in 2000 that surveyed contemporary architects and architecture. The site contains a few slideshows an illustrated transcipts.

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Inventing an Idiom see more open website in same window

Deidre Brown’s essay on John Scott from Heritage New Zealand, 2005

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Paul Pascoe biography see more open website in same window

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry for Paul Pascoe.

Robin Boyd short bio by Conrad Hamann see more open website in same window

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Shigeru Ban interview see more open website in same window

Short interview on the Lexus/Toyota website (?!). He would love to work on bridges next. Not cars?

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Suspended Animation see more open website in same window

A Wired interview from 2001.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering. You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

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Tadao Ando Pritzker Prize see more open website in same window

Pritzker Prize laureate 1995.

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The Guggenheim New York - year by year see more open website in same window

Frank's protest

Titled “Keeping Faith with an Idea: A Time Line of the Guggenheim Museum, 1943-59”, this 50th anniversary timeline covers the 16 year gestation and construction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s curly wonder. Beware, the site is 100% Flash.

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The Informalist see more open website in same window

A Cecil Balmond profile from 2001.

Visions Splendid see more open website in same window

“Christopher Vernon examines four newly acquired architectural drawings by Marion Mahony Griffin, which highlight the evolution of her distinctive graphic technique.”

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