It encompasses notions of clever improvisation, making do and puttering, but here it seems largely synonymous with idiosyncratic building.
Another stumbling block for architects is Mr. Alexander's idiosyncratic building style, he continued, adding: "People go from the ideas, which they could interpret freely, to the solutions, which they see as somewhat anachronistic, somewhat craft-related, stylistically somewhat Victorian.
Koolhaas also got to design a few idiosyncratic buildings that were actually built.
Here is a brief but enjoyable chat with Stass, on a brief YouTube clip, made at the idiosyncratic buildings of the Cyprus College of Art.
Since then it has added properties, offering a total of 700 rooms, in Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham, each in central, idiosyncratic buildings, including a church and a warehouse.
THE BASICS The Malmaison chain in Britain is gaining a reputation for finding idiosyncratic buildings — say, a Greek Orthodox church in Glasgow or a mail sorting office in Birmingham — and converting them into hip hotels with similar themes.
The graceful way in which he incorporates human and animal figures into his compositions -- helpfully, because the scale of these idiosyncratic buildings is difficult for the untutored eye to gauge without them -- adds immeasurably to their engaging humanity and exquisite strangeness.
Stylistically, he quickly departed from the simple geometry of his early work for GM and began creating more idiosyncratic buildings full of gasp!–swoops and curves.
Audiences traveled through three floors of the charmingly idiosyncratic East Village building, moving up and down little staircases for the work, which was presented in two parts, separated by a short film.
These idiosyncratic, populist buildings represent the entrepreneurial, immigrant city that Los Angeles has become since the rise of the automobile.
Charismatic and idiosyncratic, capable of building friendships, communicating to the masses as few other leaders ever have, Mr. Chávez will be missed.
