New journal edited by Shaun Murray - may already be available at the AA bookshop.
video from related conference here (inc. liquid factory...)
"Design Ecologies foregrounds the inextricable connection between human communication and ecological accountability in architectural design. This burgeoning field has the potential to become a far-reaching discipline, bonding a community that crosses over into and out of architecture, environment, interaction, urbanism, and performing arts and communication.
Through original design exploration ranging in scale, the journal will proffer a critical vision towards the built environment, and promote ecological transitions within local and global contexts. It will challenge the everyday emerging practices of architectural design by offering a transdisciplinary framework for design production."
here - thankyou alex
Forthcoming conference on Adaptive Architecture at the Building Centre, 3rd-5th March 2011. Featuring Chuck Hoberman keynote speech, plus much more. Coincides with their Living Form exhibition which sounds pretty essential.
theransomprocess - Jose
projektion - Thias
variabledimensions - Emma
madhavkidao - Madhav
makedrawsleep - David
peakerpeaker - Peaker
michelleflam - Michelle
deepwrecks - Biggie
tmhrvy - Tom
jefffab5 - Jeff
danielgoodacre - Dan G
tekton2000 - Thomas
heathermacey - Heather
Federico Diaz: Geometric Death Frequency-141-spot from federico diaz on Vimeo.
visually, geometric death frequency-141 combines diaz’s interest in the built environment, deep natural forces such as cellular growth, physics and fluid dynamics to create a massive wave confined within an invisible 50 by 20-foot tank that penetrates the wall of MASS MoCA’s lobby from the exterior of the museum’s main entrance courtyard. as the wave hits imaginary boundaries, it splashes back and up as high as the second storey galleries of the museum,
architecture critic and curator jeff kipnis calls diaz’s work “re-origination,” comparing it to the making of a book into a film. in one sense the film represents the book, yet does so in an entirely new medium, and through this becomes something completely different.i n the case of geometric death frequency-141, the “book” is a digital photograph of the museum’s clocktower entry courtyard as taken by the artist, which the artist then transforms into pure data, and modulates using analytical and fluid dynamic modeling techniques, finally rendering the data stream into a three-dimensional sculpture using state-of-the-art computer-aided manufacturing methodologies. the new work thus combines elements of photographic manipulation, data analysis, and computer programming, utilizing new techniques to produce a sculpture completely untouched by human hands.
check the wired site for further slides and the geometric death frequency-141 page @MASS MoCA
We caught a brilliant exhibition of prints by Piranesi at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, supplemented by some fantastic three dimensional representations of his designs courtesy of Factum Arte and a sub-exhibition of Gabriele Basilico's comparative photography.
Brief Guardian article about the simultaneous evolution of tools and language, based on research using digital capture of analogue modes of making. Original research paper here.
Hands at the Wellcome too.
Looking forward to checking this at the V&A.
"FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation.
Discussion on key themes will include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities, the difficult gap that exists between digital modeling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts."
Plenty more info here: http://www.fabricate2011.org/
How far can material limits be pushed? Here a crazy guy in France has built a working boat out of chocolate..
Should be worth a check, from 8th September 2010. [cheers A]
Summer reading? Tom McCarthy writes about representation of the machine in literature...
The Architectural Review selected Unit 23 as one of its top ten london architecture units.
Unit 23 article here.