Oct 15, 20090
Jun 23, 20090
DS-13 2009 Catalogue
Our end of year catalogue has just been published. You can download the DS13 section here.
May 18, 20090
Museum of Contemporary Culture MOCC, Seoul by Mark Watson
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.
Apr 21, 20090
Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space in Architecture
This just out: a new reader from AD, edited by Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Christopher Hight with essays by Stan Allen, Reyner Banham, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Robin Evans, Jeff Kipnis and Bernard Tschumi. You can buy it from here or from our bookshop.
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Mar 23, 20090
Recent work from Stevens Institute of Technology
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 20, 20090
Grasshopper Primer
Lift Architects have released the first edition of a Grasshopper Primer.
Mar 19, 20090
Evolo 09 Winners
Mar 18, 20090
Manuel DeLanda on Material Expressivity
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.
Mar 18, 20090
Shape to Fabrication Lectures
Shape to Fabrication have made available videos from their previous events:
In this presentation Tristan outlines how custom routines were written for Rhino to help in the construction and fabrication of the ‘Spacestation’sculpture by Antony Gormley.
Starting with a simple Rhino model ARUP created an extended geometric model followed by custom smoothing routines based on sub-division modelling resampled into nurbs patches.
Shrikant explains Rhino’s key role in several successful projects by Buro Happold’s SMART team.
The next session in the Shape to Fabrication series will take place on the 15th of April 2009 in the Lecture Theatre at London Metropolitan University.
Feb 23, 20090
International Lecture Series @ Bartlett
This term’s International Lecture Series at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London is curated by Dr. Marjan Colletti, Dr. Marcos Cruz and Dr. Peg Rawes. The invited speakers are:
- Wednesday 21 January – Günther Feuerstein
- Wednesday 4 February – Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
- Friday 13 February – Oron Catts (SymbioticA)
- Wednesday 18 February – Jan Birksted Bartlett
- Wednesday 25 February – Tom Wiscombe (EMERGENT Architecture)
- Wednesday 4 March – Marjan Colletti (Bartlett, MAM)
- Wednesday 11 March – Hernan Dias Alonso (Xefirotarch)
- Wednesday 18 March – Pancho Guedes
- Monday 23 March – Kjetil Thorsen (Snøhetta)
The upcoming guest is Tom Wiscombe, the principal of Emergent.
Born in in 1970 in La Jolla, California, Tom Wiscombe is an architectural
designer based in Los Angeles. In 1999, he founded EMERGENT, a platform
for researching contemporary models of biology, engineering, and
computation to produce an architecture characterized by formal
variability, high performance, and atmospherics.
Founded in 1999 by Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT is dedicated to researching
issues of structure, tectonics, and materiality through built work.
EMERGENT is a platform for experimentation, leveraging techniques and
logics from fields outside architecture including biology, complexity
science, aerospace engineering, and computation. EMERGENT’s directive is
to move beyond categorical thinking in architecture and the stratification
of building systems. This involves a re-examination of heirarchies and
discreetness of systems toward coherent but differentiated constructions.
Ultimately, the results are understood both in terms of performance and
spatial and atmospheric effects.
Wednesday February 25th, 18:30
all lectures will take place at the UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre
get directions here
Jan 21, 20091
V-Ray for Rhino tutorials
Asgvis, the makers of V-Ray for Rhino, have released a series of video tutorials on settings, lights and material creation. You can link to them through our tutorial section or from the list below:
Jan 6, 20090
SIGGRAPH 2009: Call for Artwork
The organizers of the 36th International Conference and Exhibition of Computer Graphics and Techniques are looking for exceptional works of art, completed in the last two years, by artists who engage technology and the natural world in their creative process. Their aim is to gather a compelling and varied group of creative projects that relate to the SIGGRAPH 2009 Juried Art Gallery theme: BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life.
Works exhibited in BioLogic are published in a special issue of Leonardo, The Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology. The issue also includes publication of the SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Papers. Publication of this special issue coincides with SIGGRAPH 2009.
Deadline for BioLogic Art submission is Wednesday, 18 February 2009.
For more info go here:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/galleries_experiences/biologic_art/index.php
http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/submissions/art_gallery/index.php
Dec 18, 20081
Seed Archive by Brittany Bell
Seed archive by Brittany Bell, a student at Victoria University School of Design in Wellington, New Zealand.
