Category Archives: Found objects

images, clippings, etc. that spark a creative insight

Material Behavior 1

According to the placard outside this church in Davos, Switzerland, seven hundred years ago the builders built the steeple true and straight. Soon after the tower was complete it started twisting clockwise. Why did it twist?  Another blogger  jokingly suggested the  Coriolis effect was to blame (think water down a drain and  hurricanes). If that had [...]

carved books

“Book Autopsies” Brian Dettmer

Architecture as reference

don’t mess with rhode island

wood knot