***MarianaMonteagudo.com*** From line to hyperreality - Architecture If we were to describe our street in the manner of Georges Perec, we might start by counting how many buildings are in the street, describing the door of the bar next to the supermarket, the window beside that door and the hand that is cleaning the window, the texture of the street, the cigarettes that lie in that street, the leaves near the cigarettes. But how can we represent it in a visual way? With photographs, drawings, models or all of these at the same time? The need for representation techniques that create a context for the viewer and transmit and communicate dreams and projects has a long history. The utopian dreams of the 1960s and '70s wouldn't have been the same without the new forms of representation used by the avant-garde architects, where every reader was in the position to decipher the message behind the represented work. Top: Perry Kulper, The Central California History Monument, competition (photomontage and hybrid techniques).
minimal exposition STEEL CRATES BY NAIHAN LI - Chaoyang, Beijing, China, 100015 Creative furniture that can be easily transported and easily unpacked! When closed, the stainless steel boxes by Chinese designer Naihan Li look much like the crates a magician might use, which is convenient since the boxes themselves are rather magical. Simply unfold the unobtrusive silver crates, and you suddenly find yourself with everything needed to furnish your living room (and also everything you need to have an excellent Saturday night). Hidden within the compact containers, users will find a tea table, sofa bed, armchair, bookshelf, writing desk, full bar and foosball table. We told you it was magic. The concept was born in 2010 with the original crates.
San Gennaro North Gate by SOFTlab SOFTlab has come up with a need project , a large outdoor installation for The San Gennaro North Gate located at on Mulberry St. between Houston and Prince St in New York. The piece was produced by Two Bridges and supported by St.Patrick’s Old Cathedral. The geometry was engineered in collaboration with Matt Clark at ARUP and all of the building connections were designed by Nathaniel Stanton of CRAFT Engineering. Installation will be up until September 25th, 2011 Design Team: Michael Szivos, Carrie McKnelly, Sean Madigan Installation: Elliot White, Brandt Graves, Sarah Hunter, Liz Kelsey, Brandon Bartle, Sonal Patel, Simon Kristak, Henry Choi, Julia Schleppe, Katherine Salamat, Anthony Buccellato House in Rokko by Tato Architects | Dezeen This hillside house by Japanese studio Tato Architects comprises a metal barn on top of a glass box (+ slideshow). Located between a mountainous district and the harbour-side town of Kobe in southern Japan, the two-storey House in Rokko contains a kitchen and dining room inside its transparent ground-level storey. A balcony surrounds the gabled first floor, creating an overhang that shades the glazed facade below. Upstairs, the bathroom is separated by a transparent glass partition. During construction, the foundations had to be dug by hand as no machines were able to climb the steep terrain to reach the site, while the streel structure had to be pieced together from sections small enough to be carried up one by one. We've featured a few houses in Japan with glazed bathrooms, including one with a garden behind its walls and one with a whole room dedicated to plants. See more Japanese houses on Dezeen » Photography is by Ken'ichi Suzuki. Here's a project description from Tato Architects:
Architecture The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press Graphics Press LLC P.O. Box 430 Cheshire, CT 06410 800 822-2454 Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the "Leonardo da Vinci of data," and Bloomberg as the "Galileo of graphics." Topics covered in this one-day course include: A new, widely-adopted method for presentations: meetings are smarter, more effective, 20% shorter. Fundamental design strategies for all information displays: sentences, tables, diagrams, maps, charts, images, video, data visualizations, and randomized displays for making graphical statistical inferences. New ideas on spectatorship, consuming reports. Standards of comparison for workaday and for cutting edge visualizations. The future of information displays: 4K, 6K, 8K video maps moving in time. Edward Tufte teaches the entire course.
Bricoleurbanism Multiplicity and Memory: Talking About Architecture with Peter Zumthor This interview was completely conducted and translated by Marco Masetti, done as his bachelor’s degree thesis in Italy. The idea of multiplicity is innate in Peter Zumthor’s projects since his very first works: works of art surrounding us put on various meanings, which do not always remain on parallel levels combining well with dialectical relationships. The vague is planned strictly, holding by the rules of the architectural language. Things determine the spatial dimension of the world, and therefore its knowledge and usability to us. For Zumthor there is a strong connection between reality and living. From emotion he passes on to remembrance and memory, which are the central threads in Zumthor’s research. «The world is overloaded of signs and information, representative of things – Zumthor wrote – that nobody completely understands, because they are in turn nothing but signs representative of other signs. Zumthor has never investigated the theme of the city. The interview can start.
Here's How To Give Your Vegetable Scraps A New Life AD Classics: House VI / Peter Eisenman - liam5 (63272) - ArchDaily AD Classics: House VI / Peter Eisenman Architects Location Cornwall, Connecticut Architect Peter Eisenman Client Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frank References Peter Eisenman, Houses of Cards. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987., and Frank, Suzanne. From the architect. Situated on a flat site in Cornwall, Connecticut House VI stands its own ground as a sculpture in its surroundings. Thus, the house became a study between the actual structure and architectural theory. The structure was incorporated into Eisenman's grid to convey the module that created the interior spaces with a series of planes that slipped through each other. Another curious aspect is an upside down staircase, the element which portrays the axis of the house and is painted red to draw attention. As annoying as the house was to inhabit, Eisenman was able to constantly remind the users of the architecture around them and how it affects their lives.
Doors of Perception Computational Design and Robotic Manufacturing The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), together with students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany have realized a temporary, bionic research pavilion made of wood at the intersection of teaching and research. Under the leadership of Achim Menges of ICD and Jan Knippers by ITKE the project explores the architectural transfer of biological principles of the sea urchin's plate skeleton morphology by means of novel computer-based design and simulation methods, along with computer-controlled manufacturing methods for its building implementation. A particular innovation consists in the possibility of effectively extending the recognized bionic principles and related performance to a range of different geometries through computational processes, which is demonstrated by the fact that the complex morphology of the pavilion could be built exclusively with extremely thin sheets of plywood (6.5 mm).