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Friday, January 26, 2024
Joshua Ramus: Harnessed His Powers of Design at the Perelman Performing Arts Center To Provide a Unique Translucent Facade
Engineering News-Record: Music + chess + rowing + sculpture + philosophy + math = the power of phenomena over form.
Music’s discipline of practice and performance. Chess’ strategies. Rowing’s relentless determination. Sculpture’s thought before action. Philosophy’s rigor of crafting reasoned arguments. Math’s balancing of equations.
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Karter LaBarre
said...
I was kind of confused about what this article was for a minute. but then I realized it was just a writing about Joshua Ramus. he seems like an interesting person, and the building that he made by the 9/11 Memorial looks really really cool. I think the fact that it's reflective by the pools of water in the memorial by day, and then glows on the inside with the night is so interesting. I'm not a big architecture person and I don't really understand how buildings are built, but this one is especially confusing. now moving on to the fact that this guy plays chess with his grandfather by snail mail. I'm honestly impressed at that dedication, and all I can say is I hope grandfather wins. nothing against Joshua Ramus but my grandpa is really really good at chess and I know I would get beaten in like two moves. I think it's interesting they play by snail mail when there are different ways of communication that are much faster and more efficient. I get the fact it might be like a bit or something like that, but I feel like if you have the opportunity to communicate more frequently it would be better.
I’ll start by saying that for an article talking about how a building glows at night, there was a major deficit of photos of the building glowing at night. Some of these articles are kind of silly. There was another article that had a photo of a guy drilling a hole through 3 sheets of misaligned OSB. Anyways. It’s pretty cool to see a building that’s been very purpose-built and yet specifically designed to be beautiful on the outside, especially in a unique way like this. At the same time, I kind of wish it wasn’t just a cube in the day; it looks kind of ugly in the first photo. I guess that’s the point, since the article says that they wanted it to be respectful of the memorial while indicating that it wasn’t dead inside at night. I’m pretty interested in the “three reconfigurable performance halls”, too. I wonder how much of a challenge it was to fit them into this large cube.
I live right next to this building back home, and remember walking past it when it was in development and being so excited to see how it turned out. I didn’t realize that the walls glowed at night though! I need to go when I’m back in the city and check it out. It was so interesting reading about Ramus’s processes, motivations, and perspectives when he creates a new work, and especially while working on this building. Who knew that chess and rowing and philosophy all correlated to an architectural piece for the performing arts? It mentioned that his process involves thinking of a concept, and then tackling the problem-solving aspects of it, and how that process isn’t always the norm for architects which I found an interesting claim. I do think it is super cool how he used his previous ‘extracurricular’ loves from college and earlier years to influence his future work, which further emphasizes how whatever life experience you may have can all influence your work when you are in design, something I love and think is so fascinating, as was his mantra to “dare to be dumb.”
3 comments:
I was kind of confused about what this article was for a minute. but then I realized it was just a writing about Joshua Ramus. he seems like an interesting person, and the building that he made by the 9/11 Memorial looks really really cool. I think the fact that it's reflective by the pools of water in the memorial by day, and then glows on the inside with the night is so interesting. I'm not a big architecture person and I don't really understand how buildings are built, but this one is especially confusing. now moving on to the fact that this guy plays chess with his grandfather by snail mail. I'm honestly impressed at that dedication, and all I can say is I hope grandfather wins. nothing against Joshua Ramus but my grandpa is really really good at chess and I know I would get beaten in like two moves. I think it's interesting they play by snail mail when there are different ways of communication that are much faster and more efficient. I get the fact it might be like a bit or something like that, but I feel like if you have the opportunity to communicate more frequently it would be better.
I’ll start by saying that for an article talking about how a building glows at night, there was a major deficit of photos of the building glowing at night. Some of these articles are kind of silly. There was another article that had a photo of a guy drilling a hole through 3 sheets of misaligned OSB. Anyways. It’s pretty cool to see a building that’s been very purpose-built and yet specifically designed to be beautiful on the outside, especially in a unique way like this. At the same time, I kind of wish it wasn’t just a cube in the day; it looks kind of ugly in the first photo. I guess that’s the point, since the article says that they wanted it to be respectful of the memorial while indicating that it wasn’t dead inside at night. I’m pretty interested in the “three reconfigurable performance halls”, too. I wonder how much of a challenge it was to fit them into this large cube.
I live right next to this building back home, and remember walking past it when it was in development and being so excited to see how it turned out. I didn’t realize that the walls glowed at night though! I need to go when I’m back in the city and check it out. It was so interesting reading about Ramus’s processes, motivations, and perspectives when he creates a new work, and especially while working on this building. Who knew that chess and rowing and philosophy all correlated to an architectural piece for the performing arts? It mentioned that his process involves thinking of a concept, and then tackling the problem-solving aspects of it, and how that process isn’t always the norm for architects which I found an interesting claim. I do think it is super cool how he used his previous ‘extracurricular’ loves from college and earlier years to influence his future work, which further emphasizes how whatever life experience you may have can all influence your work when you are in design, something I love and think is so fascinating, as was his mantra to “dare to be dumb.”
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