Monthly Report for January 2019 by Brian Carter, Studying Building Types, Architectural Article
Monthly Report for January 2019 by Brian Carter
Architecture Design, Building Type Discussion – article by Brian Carter, Buffalo, NY, USA
Jan 18, 2019
Monthly Report for January 2019 by Brian Carter
Buffalo Calling
January ? another month – but also a lookout over a new year. And, with 2019 in the United Kingdom introduced as uncharted territory, demands for walls and no government in the new world, transactional relationships everywhere showing scant concern for communities or well-being beyond individual calorie counts, the outlook appears bleak. It recalls the emptiness of Saul Steinberg?s memorable sketch that outlined a view of the world from 9th Avenue. Published on the cover of ?The New Yorker?, it projected an eerie desolation that extended to the Pacific Ocean and beyond to three formless lumps forming the horizon labeled Japan, China and Russia.
However sudden discoveries that architecture was very much alive and well were encouraging and, as a consequence, those pessimistic projections for 2019 were radically reframed.

At London?s Design Museum lines scribbled on yellow trace and simple card models explored housing and vernacular forms to suddenly highlight the remarkable potential of architecture. An impressive range of ideas devised by the architect Peter Barber, coupled with foresight and funding from local authorities, have created residential spaces d...