May 18, 2009
The project is concerned with a museum typology informed by a very specific architectural language and experiential affect. This affect is based on tangential continuity as a spatial mediator and structural technique.
The connective relationships between the buildings functions have been developed through research focused upon the movement of people between museum spaces. The experiential affect is a product of the transition between the prismic geometry of the surrounding urban context, to which the building’s exterior skin is aligned, and the specific performative nature of the interconnected, tangentially continuous circulatory network.
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Mar 23, 2009
via Core Form-ula:
Students from Stevens Institute of Technology are showcasing GC work at Center for Architecture in New York offering a glimpse of what can be expected at Smart Geometry 2009 in San Francisco.
For a more in depth look at their projets, go to Stevens Class Wiki.
Mar 19, 2009
Evolo has posted the winners for the 2009 Skyscraper competition.
See them here.
Mar 18, 2009
A guest on Lebbeus Woods’ blog, Manuel DeLanda writes on Material Expressivity. An excerpt below:
Physical information pervades the world and it is through its continuous production that matter may be said to express itself. Material expressivity, on the other hand, crossed an important threshold when it ceased to be a mere fingerprint and became functional in the form of the genetic code: groups of three nucleotides, the chemical components of genes, came to correspond in a more or less unique way to a single amino acid, the component parts of proteins. Using this, correspondence genes can express themselves through the proteins for which they code. This implies that expression has gone beyond the production of information to include its active storage and processing. And this, in turn, implies that when populations of information-storing molecules replicate themselves, and when this replication is biased in one or another direction by the interactions of proteins with each other and with their environment, the expressive capacities of material entities may evolve and expand in a multiplicity of novel ways.
More DeLanda on materiality, including smart materials, here.
Dec 18, 2008
Seed archive by Brittany Bell, a student at Victoria University School of Design in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Nov 12, 2008
Pompidou Center South Gallery
November 20 2008 – March 16 2009
11h00 – 21h00
For the first time in France, the Centre Pompidou is devoting a monograph to the British industrial designer and architect Ron Arad.
His work is represented today by several works in the Design collection of the Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. Since its foundation, the Centre Pompidou has been a pioneering space for the presentation of the most outstanding contemporary designers, with many exhibitions devoted to key figures such as Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Charlotte Perriand…and, today, Ron Arad.
Born in Tel Aviv and trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Art, followed by the Architectural Association School in London, Ron Arad settled in London in 1973, where he has since produced a very varied range of creative objects based on sinusoidal, elliptical and oval forms, as unique pieces, limited series and mass-produced objects.
The name of Ron Arad immediately conjures up pieces such as the Bookworm bookcase (1993) and the Tom Vac chair (1997), but his surprising work goes beyond any easy classification and expresses a free creative spirit working without constrictions or frontiers in design, architecture and the plastic arts. Ron Arad defines himself as belonging to “No discipline”.
The retrospective of his work proposed by the Centre Pompidou presents major and emblematic works, prototypes accompanied by audiovisual documents, limited series and mass-produced objects, along with numerous architectural projects.
Nov 10, 2008
A stunning series of images of the GT and Hypnos concept cars at the Citroën Design Center by Laurent Nivalle
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Oct 20, 2008
Steven Ma, this year’s recipient of the best graduate thesis at SCI-Arc, deals specifically with affect. His thesis, titled Exuberant- Liminal Form & Calligraphical Aesthetics and advised by Hernan Diaz Alonso, is according to Steven:
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Oct 2, 2008
SuckerPunch is a fantastic blog that reviews the work of contemporary artists, architects and designers who offer the stunningly unexpected and beautiful, with links to their websites. Only wish they’d have an RSS feed
