Architectural Newsletter from Lane Architecture + Design June 2008 ees Vol 2, Issue 5 Lane Architecture + Deisgn is an architectural firm in Manhattan that specializes in Corporate interiors, Site Feasibility ‘Studies, and High End Residential Design. Our office is pleased to offer our clients and associates with a newsletter that includes comments from Larry Lane and other experts. This newsletter covers up-to-date news of architecture that can be applied to every day fe. Our goal is to share our passion of architecture with others, Larry Lane Meots the Iron Man While at Texas Tech, | met the real Iron Man. Robert Bruno was one of the architectural professors there and invited me to see his sculptural residence that was stil taking shape on an overhanging site that looks down onto a lake in Ransom Canyon, TX At the time of my introduction to Mr. Bruno, he was probably only 33 years old with years more ahead of him to the finishing date of_—this, masterpiece. See the article inside to lear more about this artistic man with a passion for metals and space. (Continued on page 3) Quirky Top-Floor Spaces in Domand for Officos | In their ongoing quest for new ways to maximize revenue in office buildings, Manhattan building owners and developers are creating new rentable space from top floors once used for storage or for housing building equipment. Not only do new top-floor spaces generate additional income, (Continued on page 2) page 1 Quirky top-Floor Spaces...page 1 and 2 New Book and an Interview with a bright Salting designer: penest Larry Lang ie we ng a book in callaboration — with several ‘exports in the eemmercial real octato industry. The book will. (Continued on page 2)Resources We have a CD that discloses how you can make money while leasing commercial realestate. This CD is FREE and just $7.95 for S&H More Newly Released CD's.. 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Visit our new blog at www.LaneArchitecture. blogspot.com Page 2The Real Iron Man...(from page 1) Against Interpretation Robert Bruno's house of welded steel conjures up many meanings, but it arose without any of them by Zach Mertice ‘Associate Editor ‘Summary: The stel house artist and sculptor Robert Bruno has ereated is 2 nn-conceptual piece wholy informed by Bruno's own aestetie choices and dlireston, Its spontaneous, unplanned complexity hints atthe future, the past ‘and (according 10 Bruno) calls to attention the scalar distortion and prevalence of conceptual thetoric in modem architecture How do you... eeate singular, personal architecture from a non-conceptual basis? For 33 years, Robert Bruno has meticulously designed and built his welded steel house othe edge of a canyon outside of Lubbock, Tex. But, somehow, he's not sure how many square feet itis (his guess is 2,700) nl he can't ‘explain the influences that have informed his design’ over these three decades-despite the fact that the house's otherworldly shape seems tailor-made for flee association. A brief jaunt through any desigmoriented mind brings you to: an insect’s carapace, an alien spacecraft, MLC. Escher’s hallucinogenic maze-seapes, and pethaps Deconsiriction's ongoing War on the Rectangle, But Bruno isnt an entomologist, a seienee fietion writer, oF even a Koolhaas/Gehry acolyte, He's an artist, and nota conceptual one, "This house doesn't deal with concept at al,” he says. "I'm not trying to have something re-emerge in the guise of my house." “The medium isthe meaning In 1974, while teaching at the architcture school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Bruno completed a large stel sculpture just tll enough to stand under. He found this space pleasing and decided that it might be nice to live in such a dweling. This humble and guileless desire isthe only impetus for the design of his richly complex house, now almost compete ‘The house hitches itself t0 no stylistic wagons and has been spontaneously designed and revised over the course ofits 33-year construction. "What youre seeing is 33 years of design, not three months of design and 33 yeats of labor.” Bruno says, Ihe would have ha to design the house in full init and then build to this exact standard, "T would feel as if T were works ‘somebody else,” he says. This ia literal dstintion for Bruno. He began the house when he was @ Young man, age 29. Today he's 62, and the majority of his years have been Spent working on the house; an open film exposure documenting his aesthetic developrient and intent. Architoctuo te the learned gamo, correct and magnificont, of forme aesombld in the ight. Le Corbusier ‘Space and light and ordor. Those aro the things that mon nood just ae much ae ‘they nood bread ora plac to sloop. Le Corbusior Page 3