Alistair Knox
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Alistair Knox
he would always try to find a sculptural solution to an architectural problem.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
#AÃRKlikes the Judd Architecture Studio in Marfa, Texas. . Purchased by Judd in 1989, the former Marfa National Bank building was renovated to create a personalised space to work on architecture and design. Today the building contains early paintings and drawings by Judd, as well as furniture and architectural projects installed throughout two stories and more than fifteen rooms. An extensive collection of modernist furniture and paintings by prominent twentieth-century designers and artists are also featured, including work by Alvar Aalto, Josef Albers and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. #donaldjudd #alvaraalto #miesvanderrohe #ludwigmiesvanderrohe #josefalbers
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aeon.coorganize his practice so that it could produce large and complex projects, and to help build the firm into the kind of organization that could compete with big architectural offices that did not have his creative abilities. With that level of technical expertise combined with his creative strength, Frank reasoned, his office would have an unusual a
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One Sunday, Alistair Knox and his wife Mernda rode up on their bikes from Heidelberg to Eltham, to find Matcham and ask him if he would work for Alistair and show a couple of chaps how to make mud bricks. One of his clients, who had been a soldier in the Middle East, had been impressed by the earth buildings he had seen there and wanted a small cot... See more
Alistair Knox
Loewenberg notes that this design was incredibly simple and inexpensive to create:
‘‘it is the simplest box we have ever built, and in fact, the hardest part of the job was convincing the contractors that other than the cost of the materials to extend the balcony slabs this would be no different from building the basic box.’’ Ultimately, Loewenberg... See more