Architect of the month- January 2009

tatatatadang~~ He is PAUL M. RUDOLPH
well well....

Personal information

Paul Marvin Rudolph (Octover 23, 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky – August 8, 1997 in New York, New York) was an American architect and the dean of the Yale School of Architecture for six years, known for his cubist building designs and highly complex floor plans. His most famous work is the Yale Art and Architecture Building (A&A Building), a spatially complex Brutalist concrete structure.

Education

Rudolph earned his bachelors's degree in architecture at Auburn University (then known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute) in 1940 and then moved on to the Harvard Graduate School of Design to study with Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. After three years, he left to serve in the Navy for another three years, returning to Harvard to receive his master's in 1947.

Astonishing work

~Orange County Government Center

~Yale Art and Architecture building

~Wisma Dharmala Sakti 1&2, Jakarta

~Government Service Center, Boston

~ D. R. Horton, and Wells Fargo towers, Fort Worth

~The Concourse office tower with its ribbon windows and interweaving floors, Singapore

~Lippo Centre, Hong Kong

I like this, particularly.......

Paul's penthouse at new york city.....

vision of urban sophistication... steel, polished white plastic, marble in a dizzying complex space... cool huh. "architect should build silly things they have an itch to do and wouldn't do for clients" Paul once said. The varying and layers of the ceiling's height is a distinctive feature of this penthouse design. The transparent ceiling conducts natural light into the space to the core of his house despite of balancing the direct sun from east and west. The sunlight will a a main problem for glass houses causing stuffy internal heating in the day. In a nutshell, this is a stunning design for it's open to water, sky and sun, amenities most people have to leave the city to enjoy it. Serenity in alert to the buzzing big city~ yea!

~Architect of the month~

Haha. This isn't based on any statistics or great achievements of those architects that i chose as the architect of every month (beh hiao bah-ing XD). Anyway, they are chosen by me XD just by plain admitration of their work and design.

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Amazing~ A boy at britain got talent sang Pie Jesu

Resolution for 2009

New year resolution? for 2009? haha...
JUST TO WORK HARDER ON MY 2008 RESOLUTIONS... XD
Haha... Actually i don't do any new year resolutions... for me, a new year resolution is like a '364 days full of excuses and procrastination' to-do-list. I did remember having one for the year 2007, but ended up half of the list wasn't done...since then, i believe in spontaneous action... once you have something in your mind.... you work on it till it's done... so...for me, no point having a new year resolutions..... Just labour every single date of the year and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy the process. :)

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Few funny but rather true 'EQUATIONS' we mustn't blink at....

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need

GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.