Head Drugs

This guy is very straightforward and rather pressed for time, but he packs a wallop into a 20 minute architecture presentation. I mostly looked at it b/c it starts off with an explanation of the design for the Seattle Central Library. It's been even more of a public sore point than the EMP because it's an insane looking structure that was paid for with public money from a library budget that keeps shrinking. As someone who's recently begun using said library, there are aspects of it that defy rational comprehension from a street-level perspective. However, what he says in the first ten minutes of his presentation (and the graphics he throws up behind him) are impeccably logical. I respect the idea and the building a great deal more now, especially since they built a certain ambiguity into its future uses. Watch until the end for a look at a Dallas theater and some really fun graphics explaining a mixed use tower built around an art museum in Louisville. That bit alone shows why CAD and GIS software packages are truly wonderful things. Taken from the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference 2006.