SFA News - Peace + Joy

Spillman Farmer thanks all of you for a great 2012 and wishes you the best for 2013.

Living in the Brownfield - 100 years of Ray Eames

December 15th is the centennial of the birth of Ray Eames. We wanted to acknowledge her contribution to the design world and offer you a chance to look back at an interesting and often overlooked detail of the eames house described in her own words.

“Then there are the reflections; windows that reflect back abstract patterns of eucalyptus bark, superimposing them on the human textures within. Elsewhere you see the meadow through windows, through the house, through interior plants, all at once. There is a

detail over the back patio – a black-and-white photograph of these same trees screened onto a textile, then mounted on a panel and screwed to the building. Just before twilight, when shadows still fall on the image and the natural light turns the reflections on the leaves monochromatic, it becomes almost impossible to tell where the building ends and the reflections begin. One truly believes Ray when she remarked “after 13 years of living in it,
the building for me ceased to exist a long time ago.”

excerpt from "The Eames Primer" by Eames Demetrios.

To learn more about this detail please refer to our earlier blog post:
http://speakingofarchitecture-sfa.blogspot.com/2012/06/living-in-brownfield-here-and-there-at_26.html

SFA News - DVGBC Lehigh Valley

Congratulations to Erin McGuinness who was elected to the Steering Committee of the Lehigh Valley Branch of the DVGBC as Emerging Professionals Chair. Elections were held last Thursday evening. Erin will be sharing those duties with Casey Noble of Liberty Property Trust. Best of luck to both of them!

The above image depicts the rain garden at Bryn Athyn College, which assists with runoff management for the LEED Gold Certified Doering Center for Science and Research. Congrats again Erin!

SFA News - Interiors and Sources

We are very proud to have The ArtsQuest Center featured in INTERIORS AND SOURCES Magazine. The project was among Editor's Adam Moore's favorites for 2012, we have reproduced their web article here and look forward to seeing it in print.

Living in the Brownfield - Oscar Niemeyer

Yesterday Oscar Niemeyer died at the age of 104. We'd like to acknowledge the joy and craft that he brought to the world with his work.  In 1999, I had the opportunity to spend two incredible days wandering through the city of Brasilia, a new city master planned by Lucio Costa and brought to life with major buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer. 

An incredible place... go,see, and learn. Seeing is believing in this case.

The images above are scans of film that I had on my desk from that visit...two days I’ll never forget, rest in peace.

crEATive lunch - michael green architects

At todays's lunch we'll be watching the TED talk from michael green, we saw him at the architectural record innovation conference this year and his talk on the "30 story wood skyscraper" rocked it!  Enjoy.

SFA News - Archidose 632

In an earlier Speaking of Architecture post Joe Biondo spoke about the module and structural form at Lafayette College’s Williams Visual Arts Building. He spoke about a small intervention in the project, saying, “We thought the opening needed more of an experience and would resemble a tear in the layer of brick. More importantly, the opening would happen without any conventional structural support.”

Archidose #632 highlights that intervention to the Williams Visual Arts Building. To document the project, which has been part of a 10-year relationship with Lafayette, we embarked on our first full “architectural iphoneography” photo shoot in collaboration with Vicki Liantonio of Piccolo Takes All. There will be more to come on this, and we’re thrilled that A Daily Dose of Architecture featured this moment. These four simple images convey so much about our architectural and photographic process.

 

Link to the feature below:

http://archidose.blogspot.com/2012/11/todays-archidose-632.html