blueprints as art

I  think architectural drawings are gorgeous and I'm supremely bummed I wasn't smart enough to think of this first (darn you, Kevin Busta) - collage on vintage blueprint drawings seen here. Brilliant. Am in love. Now I'm definitely going to be on search for old and beautiful blueprints.  Would love to find one large print, cut into 9 smaller pieces and frame individually in a series. Or just DIY collage.  Silhouette collage, might I add! Would certainly be the affordable option to this piece (@ $5200...art or rent? art or rent?).

Birds on Wire, Acrylic on Vintage Blue Print - 30"H x 84"W

n.b. spring break travel and beginning the decent into the black hole of finals have limited my posts.  yet - post finals black hole, I have grand plans for 4 months of summer break to fill with lots of blogging.  thanks for bearing with my increasingly crazy sched until then :)

burj kh-AH!-lifa

Tomorrow, William F. Baker, the engineer of the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is giving a lecture at Pratt.  While I have great respect for this tremendous feat of architectural design and engineering, this place scares the living daylights out of me. The thought of the restaurant on level 122 or the observation deck on level 124 is terrifying.  My heart goes out for the window-washing crew of Burj Khalifa.

 

Looking down. AH!

 Looking up. Ooooo!

As much as I am petrified of heights, I am incredibly excited to hear the engineer's first hand account of the structural design and construction of this building.

ps, more to come in the Spring 2010 Pratt Lecture Series... Santiago Calatrava, Sir Peter Cook, Daniel Libeskind.  Steven Holl and David Adjaye presented over the past two weeks. preeeeeettty good.