Archive for May 9th, 2008

Reinterpretations (of the Fish Bowl)

As architecture students, we faithfully read about works and ideas of starchitects out there almost every other day. And there is always one consistent underlined matter — reinterpretation. Modernists reinterpreting architectural aesthetics & structural expressions, Le Corb reinterpreting urban housing issues, postmodernists reinterpreting ornaments & facades, which was when Venturi & Scott Brown was reinterpreting Las Vegas… We also have Tschumi reinterpreting buildings & programs, Koolhaas reinterpreting New York, Herzog de Meuron reinterpreting materiality, MVRDV reinterpreting the methodology of design… the list can go on forever.

They are concepts conceived at a rather large scale: shifts in urban theories and architectural agendas.

Just taking a break from these, I’m now looking at these cute little sketches — on reinterpreting fish bowls:

Fish Bowl
Sketches of Roger Arquer for the Fish Bowls project
(Image credits: Dezeen Design Magazine)

Fish Bowls is a project by industrial designer Roger Arquer that presents 15 variations on the standard fish bowl

Go look at photos of the real thing, here.

Roger Arquer’s official website, here.

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I guess I am doing pretty well (updating regularly) as I am now blogging as a routine during my little ‘coffee breaks’.

Now, back to the dreaded CAD!


 

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