Architecture as a Creative Process

[markbhall]

I was quite pleased and proud to see this article about Robert Bruno and his house at Ransom Canyon. He was one of my professors at Texas Tech University, and he had a big influence on my design esthetic. Of course, I haven't had the luxury of taking 30 years to design and build anything, or the opportunity to really let loose with such organic

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[amysisson]

Oh my! Thanks for sharing this. I don't think the photos can do it justice, because the shape of the walls limits what/how we see it in the photos. I'd love to see it for real -- especially after he's moved in and it's furnished, because I'm having trouble envisioning how someone will live in that kind of space on a day to day basis. (I know they can, I just don't know how yet.)

Wicked cool!

[kgkofmel]

I like the way the house looks like it's about to start walking off in one direction or the other... probably to get away from that ranch house in the background.

[markbhall]

This is a fairly upscale residential development, although there are no restrictions on style and building materials that one might expect in similar developments these days.

Nevertheless,this is a signature structure in a beautiful canyon, surrounded by run-of-the-mill ranch style houses. Robert Bruno's house fits into the landscape much better.

[markbhall]

Yes, I'm interested in what sort of furniture would do it justice.

[kgkofmel]

Obviously posting impaired today, that was supposed to be a reply to Mark, but Amy gets it instead!!

*sigh*

[starcat_jewel]

I would also love to see the house, even just from the outside. It reminds me of the Flying Saucer House outside Chattanooga -- although now that I've looked at the picture on that page, I see that the only real resemblance is that both of them are on legs. Bruno's house is MUCH cooler.

"calls to attention the scalar distortion and prevalence of conceptual rhetoric in modern architecture"

Okay, "prevalence of conceptual rhetoric" I think I get, but what in the world does he mean by "scalar distortion"?

[markbhall]

I think this phrase, which occurs in the summary at the top, is referring to Bruno's statement that one of the architect's traditional tools to communicate the design to the client is small scale models. These are not good representations, he argues, because one experiences them from a different perspective.

Bruno's house is, essentially, a working model executed full scale.

As architects, our constant challenge is to find a way to experience--and let the client experience--the design before it is built.

[chuckybones]

Wow! I had seen this on Discovery Channel, or some other network that shows cool houses, but had no idea that he would've been one of your professors!

I definitely want to go and see this if we ever get out to Lubbock. The show had a lot of footage of it, but it was a couple of years old, so who knows how much more he's done since then?