Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape

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In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard’s new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. There, he and his wife, Ise, hosted a festive reunion of Bauhaus masters and students who had recently emigrated from Europe: Marcel Breuer, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Xanti Schawinsky and others. Together they feasted, swam and planned their futures on a new continent, all sensing they were on the cusp of a momentous new phase in their lives. Yet even as they moved on, the group never lost its connection to the Cape Cod coast. Several members returned, when they had the means, to travel farther up the peninsula, rent cabins, buy land and design their ideal summer homes. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told–until now. The flow of talent onto the Outer Cape continued and, within a few years, the area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country’s top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in the woods and on the dunes; by the 1970s, there were about 100 modern houses of interest here. In this story, we meet, among others, the Boston Brahmins Jack Phillips and Nathaniel Saltonstall; the self-taught architect, carpenter and painter Jack Hall; the Finn Olav Hammarström, who had worked for Alvar Aalto; and the prolific Charlie Zehnder, who brought the lessons of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Brutalism to the Cape. Initially, these designers had no clients; they built for themselves and their families, or for friends sympathetic to their ideals. Their homes were laboratories, places to work through ideas without spending much money. The result of this ferment is a body of work unlike any other, a regional modernism fusing the building traditions of Cape Cod fishing towns with Bauhaus concepts and postwar experimentation.

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Josh Haywood Designs Stunning Lasercut Plywood Pavilion for Burning Man Festival

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josh haywood, hayam sun temple, black rock desert, burning man, burning man 2014, burning man festival, moorish architecture, filigree design, burning man art grant, temporary pavilion, filigree facade, islamic architecture, islamic geometry, sun-inspired architecture, burning man architecture
josh haywood, hayam sun temple, black rock desert, burning man, burning man 2014, burning man festival, moorish architecture, filigree design, burning man art grant, temporary pavilion, filigree facade, islamic architecture, islamic geometry, sun-inspired architecture, burning man architecture
josh haywood, hayam sun temple, black rock desert, burning man, burning man 2014, burning man festival, moorish architecture, filigree design, burning man art grant, temporary pavilion, filigree facade, islamic architecture, islamic geometry, sun-inspired architecture, burning man architecture
josh haywood, hayam sun temple, black rock desert, burning man, burning man 2014, burning man festival, moorish architecture, filigree design, burning man art grant, temporary pavilion, filigree facade, islamic architecture, islamic geometry, sun-inspired architecture, burning man architecture
josh haywood, hayam sun temple, black rock desert, burning man, burning man 2014, burning man festival, moorish architecture, filigree design, burning man art grant, temporary pavilion, filigree facade, islamic architecture, islamic geometry, sun-inspired architecture, burning man architecture

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SHoP Architects Designing Brooklyn’s Newest, Tallest Tower

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SHoP Architects has racked up another major project in Brooklyn. The firm behind the Barclays Center and the Domino Sugar Factory redevelopment, is designing Brooklyn’s newest, tallest tower. NY YIMBY spotted building permits for 340 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn, where the firm’s 775-foot-tall, 495-unit building will rise. SHoP’s high-rise will top Brooklyn’s current tallest […]

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SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization

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Create stunning photorealistic and artistic visuals of your SketchUp models with this book and eBook

Overview

Take advantage of the new features of SketchUp 2014 Create picture-perfect photo-realistic 3D architectural renders for your SketchUp models Post-process SketchUp output to create digital watercolor and pencil art Make the most of SketchUp with the best plugins and add-on software to enhance your models

In Detail

SketchUp is an amazing and remarkably powerful 3D modeling software used by millions of architects, visualizers, and drafters across the globe. It allows you to create animated 3D drawings and photorealistic renderings that approximate real-life objects easily.

This book is the perfect introduction to SketchUp 2014. It will help you to get started quickly and efficiently to produce and present commercial quality photorealistic or artistic outputs of your designs. It will teach you how to plan and set up the content of your scenes, use SketchUp and professional rendering software to produce stunning visuals and animations, and how to add an artistic touch to your images.

What you will learn from this book

Produce a photorealistic rendering of a scene modeled in SketchUp Render ultra-realistic soft shadows from multiple light sources Master the low polygon modeling techniques that you need to adopt for visualizations Work with texturing techniques utilizing PhotoMatch and your own digital photos Enhance your models by adding depth of field and other postprocessing tricks in GIMP Devise movie-set scenes to digitally photograph your projects Enhance your SketchUp scenes by adding lamps, sun, and sky lighting Add smooth camera paths for airborne and walk-through animations Learn all of the simple tricks to ensure you get great-looking models when rendered

Approach

Beginning with a quick start tutorial which will get you up and running with SketchUp 2014 quickly, you will move on to learning the key skills you will need to wow your clients with stunning visualizations through a series practical steps, tips and tricks.

Who this book is written for

If you are a SketchUp user, from an amateur right through to an architectural technician, professional architect, or designer, this is the book for you. This book is also suitable as a companion to any architectural design or multimedia course, and is accessible to anyone who has learned the basics of SketchUp.

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