Origamic Architecture

OA Maillist Archive: 2000_06_05

oa-d Digest				Volume 00 : Issue 9, 10, and 11

Today's Topics:
  [OA] ANOTHER OA SITE ON THE 'NET      [ "Gerry Stormer"  ]
  [OA] Searching for Robert Lamarche    [ KSelena@aol.com ]
  [OA] Making "Mystery Box - Cubes"     [ KSelena@aol.com ]
  [OA] Available new Chatani book publ  [ "N. David Martin"  ]
  [OA] Kirigami book                    [ Hanna Lyons  ]
  RE: [OA] Kirigami book                [ "Gerry Stormer"  ]
  Re: i wondered if you could help me?  [ Andrew Crawford 
To: "OA Maillist" 
Subject: [OA] ANOTHER OA SITE ON THE 'NET

Hello all,
 
Just learned of this OA site:  http://www.homestead.com/jagoda/index.html from Yugoslavia.  It has a couple of original designs and is worth a look.
 
Regards,
Gerry Stormer
gstormer@home.com
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/HobbyCt/gstormer/
 
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 03:16:27 EDT
From: KSelena@aol.com
To: oa@evermore.com
Subject: [OA] Searching for Robert Lamarche

Does anyone know of any current website for Robert Lamarche?  He is the 
fabulous designer who won the OMNI Magazine OA contest in 1989.  

Back many months ago, I came across Robert Lamarche's website at http://www.
geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8524/Pages/Other.html and even corresponded 
with him via e-mail.  A number of months ago, he decided to take down his 
site in protest against some new policies at geocities.com and I believe he 
planned to put up a new site elsewhere.  I haven't come across anything on 
the search engines (except a memorial to his father who recently passed away) 
and would like to know if anybody else has any info on Robert Lamarche.

If you missed his site, you missed seeing his spectacular "Entropy" OA.  I 
certainly hope he decides to put up his site again.

K. Selena Kim
Bridgewater, NJ  USA
http://members.aol.com/kselena/
http://members.aol.c
om/kselena/OA/oamainpg.html 

From: KSelena@aol.com
To: oa@evermore.com
Subject: [OA] Making "Mystery Box - Cubes"

A few weeks ago, I made "Mystery Box - Cubes" from "Pop-up Geometric 
Origami."  I found that it was impossible to interlock the pieces without 
bending/slightly creasing some of the areas.  Does anyone know if it's 
possible to make this OA model without doing that?

Thanks,
Selena Kim
Bridgewater, NJ  USA
KSelena@aol.com
http://members.aol.c
om/kselena/OA/oamainpg.html


Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:05:32 -0700
From: "N. David Martin" 
To: oa@evermore.com
CC: ndavid@istar.ca
Subject: [OA] Available new Chatani book published Dec 30,1999

To whom it may concern:  The above, entitled Origamic Architecture,
published in Japanese by Shokokusha, ISBN 4-395-27046-8, exactly, is
available, perhaps elsewhere but cerainly at Sophia Books, Vancouver,
Canada, telephone 604 684-0484 or fax 604 684-1683; cost in the store is
$48.10 (Cndn). David


Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:56:19 -0400
From: Hanna Lyons 
To: 
Subject: [OA] Kirigami book

I just got a new book, "Kirigami: The Art of 3-Dimensional Paper Cutting" by
Laura Badalucco.  I've thought of kirigami as Japanese paper cutting, and
she takes it into folding the cuts into designs that look a LOT like
oragamic architecture.  For someone new to OA like me, the book contains
some very useful information about paper and tools and techniques that we
all know are not spelled out in any of Chatani's books -- but I was so
surprised to see no mention of Chatani or OA anywhere in this book.  It
reads to me like an introductory text in OA. I'm wondering if any of you
know this book or know of Laura Badalucco or know anything about the
relationship between this "kirigami" and OA???

Hanna Lyons

Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:59:19 -0500
From: "Gerry Stormer" 
To: "OA Maillist" 
Subject: RE: [OA] Kirigami book

Hi Hanna,

Thanks for the information about the new pattern book.  I've never heard of
the author or the book but it looks and sounds very interesting.  I checked
Amazon.com and they have this book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806944900/qid%3D958185337/102-338446
9-8108006  The pictures of the cards on the cover certainly do look like OA
so it is very surprising there's no mention of OA and/or Chatani.  I don't
know too much about Kirigami but I thought it was kind of like the Japan
version of scherenschnitte.  I did a search for Kirigami and came up with
numerous pages and it appears there is no folding involved just silhouettes
of people, animals, etc.  Looks like Ms Badalucco is taking Kirigami to the
3-D stage just as Chatani did with origami.  Thanks again for the info!!

Gerry Stormer
gstormer@home.com
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/HobbyCt/gstormer/


-----Original Message-----
From: Hanna Lyons [mailto:hanna@ipass.net]
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:56 PM
To: oa@evermore.com
Subject: [OA] Kirigami book

I just got a new book, "Kirigami: The Art of 3-Dimensional Paper Cutting" by
Laura Badalucco.  I've thought of kirigami as Japanese paper cutting, and
she takes it into folding the cuts into designs that look a LOT like
oragamic architecture.  For someone new to OA like me, the book contains
some very useful information about paper and tools and techniques that we
all know are not spelled out in any of Chatani's books -- but I was so
surprised to see no mention of Chatani or OA anywhere in this book.  It
reads to me like an introductory text in OA. I'm wondering if any of you
know this book or know of Laura Badalucco or know anything about the
relationship between this "kirigami" and OA???

Hanna Lyons


Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:34:00 -0700
From: Andrew Crawford 
To: "bond1" 
Cc: oa@evermore.com
Subject: Re: i wondered if you could help me?

At 04:00 PM 5/28/2000 +0100, you wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam.
I am in year 10 at Lostock hall high school doing GCSE Graphics.  At the moment in graphics we are doing a project that involves us having to design our own pop-up cards.  I searched the Internet and came across your page.  I thought your thumbnails where really good and maybe you could send me some more infomation about how to make one of them or some general rules about making pop-up cards.
This would be really helpfull in my reasearch and also when I come to design my card.
Thank you for your time.
Andrea Bond.

Please excuse the slow reply.  I have been unavailable for the last two weeks.

Masahiro Chatani (the originator of the Origamic Architecture style of pop-up card) outlines his design process in the introductory section of his book Origami Architecture: American Houses Pre-Colonial to Present ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0870118374/arizonaaikidoA .)

There was also a segment with Joyce Aysta (an OA designer) on the Carol Duvall Show on HGTV some time last year.  In it, she discusses the basics of OA design.  I may be able to track down a copy of a video tape of it, if you are interested.

The best suggestion I can give is to study cards you like and try to emulate the style.

I generally design my cards in a vector graphics program (such as Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.)  This allows me to lay out the cut and fold lines very precisely.

I am forwarding this message to the OA discussion list.  Some of the folks there may be able to provide some additional suggestions on card design.  I'll forward any replies that they don't CC to you.  However, you may wish to consider joining the list yourself.  There are sign up instructions and archives here:

   http://oa.evermore.com/oamaillist.php3

Andrew Crawford
Andrew@Evermore.com
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