http://www.andrew-liebchen.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:33:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Of course, everyone is going bonkers over the iPad, announced today.   This post isn't about the iPad, it's about me. Bryan Boyer, representing the editorial staff at Archinect.com, put out a call for ideas. To address this impasse between the rightful expression of the Muslim religion and the value of Switzerland’s ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/694 I saw Daybreakers this afternoon, and found it couldn't live up to its compelling premise.  In the world of the film, an outbreak of vampirism results in nearly the entire population becoming vampires ten years on.  In the exposition of the movie, great pains are taken to demonstrate and explain ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/685 As part of their ongoing "Safety Net" series, which examines the functionality of what passes for social welfare in the United States during the current recession, The New York Times profiled several Floridians with little to  no cash income and rely exclusively on food stamps to survive.  Buried in the ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/677 Some of my work, including my degree project, was included as a part of the department's booth/room at the 9th Annual International Festival for Architecture and Media (BEYOND MEDIA) in Florence, Italy.  The exhibition came and went early in the summer and unfortunately, not many RISD eyes were able to ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/657 Today M.ammoth pointed me toward an article in the New Atlantis by Rand Simberg, an aerospace engineer and blogger.  Simberg lays out the fallacies as he and many in the aerospace community in NASA's re-tread of the Apollo program.  In short, he calls the space agency and government to task for its ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/639 Nope, it's not.  The image is coded in Javascript/HTML/CSS and made of 1,750 colored 10px x 10px <div>'s. I extracted the hexadecimal information as XML from a RAW file, fed it through a short bit of code and out pops this.  Its totally a project from the first week of a ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/603 I picked up my complimentary copy of the 2009 RISD Department of Architecture Alumni Travel Award publication. The book was complimentary because I was awarded the honor of inclusion in the competition publication, of which I am very proud! My fellow publishees (Robbie Williams, Alice Hsieh, Chelsea ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/589 ...a continuation of post #17. Thoreau's cabin on Walden Pond stands as a kind of domestic proto-manifest destiny: the thinness of the envelope he builds for himself allows for a psychological and physiological closeness to the environment.  Thoreau presents his hut as painfully obligatory: he didn’t plaster his walls until November, ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/302 Above:  four Daniel Libeskind buildings: (from l to r) the graduate center at London Metropolitan University, the Jewish Museum, the ROM, and the Denver Art Museum addition. Former Boston University president John Silber’s book The Architecture of the Absurd, set off a tacit rebuttal by Nicolai Ouroussoff back in December of ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/297 Probably not an original thought, but at least an original image. Reading Michael Pollan's A Place of my Own in which he reminds me of Thoreau's description of his thin-walled cabin and connects it to American domestic architecture's "centrifugalness." The Lunar Lander's skin was as thin as a few layers ... http://www.andrew-liebchen.com/archives/293