Monday, January 21, 2008

Autonomous Architecture

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an augmented reality architectural form, driven by real time environmental information such as temperature, brightness, humidity, wind direction and sound. nodes reflecting the sensor network are the seeds for the virtual architecture, growing and subsiding like an organism.


+ corpora.ycam.jp & doublenegatives.jp

see also: stranger than fiction infographics, statistical wall numbers & rixome.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Ice Station Zaha


Photography: Helene Binet, Iwan Baan & Werner Huthmacher

Zaha’s newly opened Alpine funicular railways at Austria’s top ski resport in Innsbruck has been enthusiastically received by the world’s media. Connecting the town centre to a nearby mountain resort. The innovative carriages.....

Source @ worldarchitecturenews

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World

UAE brings in the big guns to shoot beyond their blooming island developments with three museums designed by the starchitects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sexy space pod performing arts center from Zaha Hadid.


Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid’s design for a performing arts center for an island in Abu Dhabi.

By HASSAN FATTA
Source:© Xanadu for the Arab World

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

ARoS on Fire : Burning the Roots of Western Culture

City on Fire is a site specific installation created by the Danish artist Thyra Hilden and the Argentinian artist Pio Diaz. The installation was first presented at the Danish Institute in Rome. This month City on Fire premieres at the art museum ARoS in Aarhus, Denmark. Here the project is entitled ARoS on Fire. ARoS on Fire can be experienced from January 17 to January 31. The breathtaking experience is created by video projecting fire onto the large window section of the museum, and the artists behind the project hope that ARoS on Fire opens up for the possibility of creating both the Louvre on Fire in Paris and the Colosseum on Fire in Rome.

With the slogan “Burning the roots of Western culture” City on Fire seeks to create a cultural dialogue about the destructive forces inherent in Western civilization. Using video projections of fire on cultural institutions and monuments, the project encourages the spectator to reflect on the cultural roots of the Western world. According to the organizers, the video projections are symbolic burnings of these cultural roots, a purifying process of our past and our cultural inheritance that inspires self-reflection on our history and our destructive present. Using the element fire, Diaz and Hilden draw attention to the destruction the Western world is causing at political hot spots around the world - a destructive behaviour that will eventually turn against us.
With the specific burning of ARoS, Diaz and Hilden aim to force the public to reflect upon fire and its most destructive form, war.


Check out the picture documentation from the filming of the fire at the Fire and Rescue Academy in Korsoer, Denmark and sketces for the projects Colosseum on Fire and Louvre on Fire.

Also be sure to check out a video of the future project of the Colosseum on Fire.



ARoS on Fire.

The artists behind the project wish to carry out the project of the Louvre on Fire in the near future


Photo: © city on fire/Thyra Hilden & Pio Diaz
Press Pictures & Texts
Source:©city on fire

Friday, January 26, 2007

The Cartoon about ARCHITECTS and ...

"arch.Maaik" is a daily architecture comic-strip about the life of an architect drawn by architect Mike Hermans, pseudonym Maaik.

The goal of the strip is to promote architecture, enhance the discussion on the subject and make it more accessible to a broad audience. The strip gives the reader a clear understanding of the mind of an architect and the world of construction.
When a friend asked him to draw some cartoons around the theme of an annual indoor soccer tournament for architecture offices, he kind of liked the idea and a little later,

Archibald was born. What started out as a couple of funny sketches about soccer playing architects eventually evolved into a humorous cartoon on architecture. Maaik slowly recognized Archibald's potential to become a way to exercise the profession of architect as he always wanted it: with a sense of humour.

Today the strip has become a full-time job. It is published worldwide in a lot of architecture publications and well appreciated by architects and people working in the construction industry.


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Image: © archmaaik