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Checking out some fantastic work by Chilean Architect Mathias Klotz fromhttp://abduzeedo.com/architect-day-mathias-klotz. Few images after the jump.

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I've been in Melbourne for almost one year! The extension of my stay still hangs in limbo. While I don't have much to write at the moment, I've kept myself semi-busy taking some photos around town. I'm so tired of "design thinking" by the end of each day that I have little energy left for this blog. Going forward, I plan to post more pictures and write less words.

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Housing project design tends to gravitate towards the conservative. Whether it be market-rate or social housing, past successes in organization and construction methods are generally privileged over new concepts. The following are some examples of both classic and contemporary housing projects that broke away from the norm and offer something new to the mass housing paradigm.Most of the following

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[image from Skyscraper City]I find this building fascinating for it's aggressive attitude to the surrounding cityscape of Milan. It also shows how much power architects wielded in the 1950s. It's hard to imagine something like this getting built anywhere in the West today.

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[image from Allen, Jack, & Cottier Architects]The Sydney School of Architecture is arguably the first unique "style" that comes out of Australia. The movement came to prominence during the 1960s. The work exists somewhere between Frank Lloyd Wright and hard-edge Modernism. Harry Seidler, who was largely responsible for bringing the language of Modernism to Australia, practiced in Sydney and

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When people think about Brazilian architecture, the first images that come to mind are usually the smooth, white, surfaces of Oscar Niemeyer's Brazilia. His emphasis on sculptural, surreal buildings, artfully composed in the middle of Brazil's desert, became an icon to the world. Soon after Brazilia was completed, a US-backed military coup installed a military dictatorship in Brazil. At the same

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Centenary Pool, Brisbane from hereThis image is very reminiscent of the erotic, heroic architecture of 1950s Brazil, but built and choreographed in Australia.

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I'm attempting to get my mind around Australia's architecture scene and will be writing a few posts about the architectural history of the place.Australia's first forays into Modern architecture happened in both Melbourne & Sydney. While the International Style of the 1960s, which favored clean, precise steel & glass buildings, introduced Modernism to the wider Australian public, and was

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I've been working on designing three small projects in an area of Tokyo I stayed last summer (summer in the northern hemisphere, that is). The idea is to use some similar architectural concepts on three sites throughout Hikifune. The projects all have differing programs and lot sizes.

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Deconcrete recently blogged about a new book produced by ETH Zurich titled "Hong Kong Typology." It appears to be written in the spirit of Atelier Bow-wow's books about Tokyo, "Made in Tokyo" and "Pet Architecture." The project analyzes Hong Kong for the common and uncommon building types the steep slopes and insane land prices of the town make possible.To be honest, I've been looking (and

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It has been a busy month in Melbourne, finding a place to live, getting myself situated, meeting new people, and finding work. I've been given the opportunity to work on some pretty exciting projects in Melbourne and abroad. I've also managed to get through a few novels I always wanted to read and have started and stopped on a few posts I really want to finish on this blog. It's been a wonderful

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[image from w.w.d.i.s.]One of the best blogs to go to for eye candy is called "What We Do Is Secret." The focus is on Japanese Architecture, and many of the best projects are the small ones. Here's the link and a few photos after the jump.[image from w.w.d.i.s.][image from w.w.d.i.s.]

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Isao Hashimoto's work, titled "1945-1998" provides an abstract, sobering vision of a world on the edge of oblivion for half a century. The artist mapped out the location and date of every single nuclear test. A score board around the perimeter of the map keeps track of who comes out ahead.The length of the video helps drive the point home. 14 minutes of abstract beeps leads to a total of 2053

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I've been playing around with grasshopper lately. Besides working on using it for paneling systems, I've been working out how to make a simple, fully parametric tower, complete with structure and skin, so that all you need are the property lines, the spacing of the structural columns, and the thickness of the slab, and you can create a mock-up of the tower quickly, so that you're not starting

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Hidden restaurants, shops, art galleries, and bars can be found throughout Melbourne, down any one of its laneways. Similar to Chicago or New York City, the downtown (known as the Central Business District, or "CBD") is laid out on a grid. Where it differs is in how that grid is cut into smaller pieces, by a series of alleys, laneways, arcades, and shopping complexes. Examples of Steven Holl's

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This is what happens when you've been designing with Sketchup too long.

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Thomas Pynchon describes Germany's V2 rockets raining down on London during WWII, in his novel "Gravity's Rainbow." The new rockets move faster than the speed of sound and strike in a seemingly random way (although characters try to discern a sinister pattern in where the rockets land). Death comes instantaneously for those unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time:"Imagine a missile one

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[image from LiveScience]It's been almost official for fifteen years... Postmodernism is dead. The death of Modernism was celebrated by Charles Jencks on March 16, 1972, the day Pruitt-Igoe, a celebrated American public housing facility, was demolished. In opposition, Postermodernism has suffered a slow, ambiguous death. Perhaps it still lives on in intensive life-support somewhere, collecting

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Norfolk is interesting in that it's counted as a part of Oceania, but exists as a subtropical climate. While the general image of the south pacific is one of palm trees and sunlight, Norfolk's temperate climate provides it with the unique symbol of the "Norfolk Island Pine."Like other "histories" of Oceania, this one has a bit of mystery. The original settlers, who arrived in the 14th-15th

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The south Pacific Islands, often called Oceania, is interesting in the way it straddles the international dateline. One can stand on one island and look back or forward in time at the next, depending on which side of the line you reside. It seems like there could be some way one could take advantage of this strange wrinkle in time. While the cultural and historical ties of different countries on

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[image from Jane's Ocean][image from Ballardian][image from Runit Island][image from Ballardian]Runit Island, a part of the Enewetak Atoll, was turned into a large nuclear waste dump under the Carter Administration. Two nuclear bomb tests provided the holes needed to dump hazardous debris from the multiple nuclear tests conducted there during the preceding three decades. The waste was mixed with

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[image from The Daily Californian]According to an article in "The Daily Californian," researchers at UC Berkeley have created a backpack that can automatically build a 3D model of the space around you. The pack is equipped with six lasers and several video cameras. As the wearer walks through a space, the lasers scan the surrounding walls, while the cameras take a quick succession of photos. "The

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I've been working on a few design competitions lately. One calls for the conceptual design of a cabin somewhere in the United States. We've been using Grasshopper, a plug-in for Rhino, to help decide on heights and dimensions of the project. While Grasshopper is well known for its ability to generate some pretty crazy forms (see the Grasshopper gallery here), it's also a pretty useful tool for

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I still can't get over how fun this little project is by Ensample Studio. The architects made a pit, dropped in straw bales, and pored concrete into the hole. After letting the mixture cure, a calf took its time eating all the organic matter inside the concrete. After the calf finished dining, the architects slapped a few panes of glass and ran some MEP through to create a small studio.The story

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A couple weeks ago (can't believe it's been that long!) I visited the Moriyama House. Located somewhere between Tokyo and Yokohama, this house by architect Ryue Nishizawa of Sanaa is perhaps the extreme example of what it means to fully embrace "Void Metabolism." The project doesn't just gesture towards its urban condition, it makes the embrace of the city a prerequisite for living there.The

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[image from Isao Sugiyama]BTAP's Tokyo gallery has Isao Sugiyama's work on display right now. BTAP is an organization consisting of two art galleries, one in Tokyo and one in Beijing. They were one of the early galleries in Beijing's famous 798 arts district. Their gallery in Ginza is smaller, but its size and nondescript location make for a more intimate experience with the work of the artist.[

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I'm almost done with this massive project that's used up so much of my free time after work and in the last couple weeks. This result will be a little booklet similar to this project.In the meantime, here are a few renders.

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For the last few weeks I have been living in Hikifune, a rather nondescript, average neighborhood in Tokyo. Nearby, over a main station called Oshiage, the Japanese Government is building a new antennae tower called "Sky Tree" that will be the highest antennae tower in the world. Two of Japan's leading young architecture firms, Atelier Bow-wow and Sanaa, have been talking about Void Metabolism

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[image from Atelier Bow-wow][image from Floating World]Two of my favorite projects by the Tokyo firm Atelier Bow-wow are the Nora House (shown above) and the Ikushima Library. One aspect of their work I find especially interesting is how they often refrain from creating all-white spaces. Most of their firm peers stick to white walls, floors, and ceilings, eschewing the expression of a building's

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[image from Sigiriya.org]The ancient city of Sigiriya, is an ancient fortress/pleasure palace who's origins remain murky. The ruins are located in central Sri Lanka and were built in the late 400s. While many people come to check out the cave paintings, the best part about this complex is the massiveness of it. It's literally what so many other ancient building complexes aspired to represent, a

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Mountains historically act as landmarks. We can place ourselves in a landscape by looking at where a specific mountain range or peak is. When you drive through Los Angeles, you know you're in the Valley when you find yourself in the bowl between two massive mountain ranges and you're in Mid-City when the Hollywood Hills become visible through the yellow smog.On that note, in the past few years,

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Although the Situationist International reached the height of its power during the 1968 strikes throughout France and disbanded in the early 70s, their ideas about urban existence continue to be important. Whether or not one subscribes to their political philosophy, the concept of pyschogeography they advanced is especially influential. According to Guy Debord, pyschogeography is "the study of

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[image from Casual Days]The disbandment of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM) at the end of the 1950s made way for a more heterogeneous mix of architectural groups to form during the 1960s. One such offshoot were the Metabolists in Japan. Led by the early Modernist architect Kenzo Tange, the architects proposed various megastructures with corresponding "plug-in" components

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What a disaster.

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The mixed-use parking garage (see the post below) is one part of a larger urban planning scheme based on the soon-to-be-completed expo line in Los Angeles. We're calling the overall project "Ballona Junction."Rather than focus on the creation of new formalisms, we've taken a hyper-rational approach to building structure and lot divisions. The more radical nature of the project lies in programming

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Parking structures, those massive concrete containers we're so used to, generally act as transitionary structures. Their purpose is to store our driving machines while we go look for better places to hang out.What if there was a way to activate these structures and make them into something more civic? Historically, similar typologies of transition (train stations, airports, ports) have been

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The Bazaar for Technological Progress is a hybrid construct intended to analyze the creation of new technology as both a historical and spatial phenomenon.Located in the heart of Silicone Valley, the project mixes various programs together into a soup of cultural and consumptive interactions. Different architectural tropes are combined to create a building that, I hope, will be both “hot” and “

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I suppose an explanation of the last few posts is in order. When my friend and I started this blog, our goal was to use blogging not just as a tool to write about the work of others, but also to bounce around unorthodox ideas about how to reshape a place, a society, a monument, a city. Most of our earlier "projects" (listed on the side) consist of a few hastily shopped montages, held tenuously

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The logic diagram from the last post is played out multiple times in two rows and then connected. The next move, incorporating the museum portion of the program, will require us to go back to the original datum, figure out the needed dimensions for each portion of the exhibits and then fit them into the above structure.

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A few weeks ago, I posted a rough diagram for a "structural switchboard."The idea here is to use the metaphor of an old analog computer in the creation of a simple statics force diagram. If we establish a nine X nine grid, and move one dot in one direction, then the rules of the game dictate that the other dot must move in the other direction to serve as a counterweight. The next diagram begins

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If you haven't gotten to check out Rhino's new paneling tools plug-in, I suggest you download it and check it out. While I've been able to do some elementary paneling with Revit and a bit with Grasshopper, the new paneling tool for rhino makes it really easy to create complex surfaces that wrap around any shape. The image made above only took a few minutes to create.

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For those that missed it, I headed out to the California City for Obscura Day with my good friend John Moody awhile back. He put together an excellent video of our experience. We met up with some great people, including Bldgblog, edible geography, & soundscrapers.Here's a link to the video.

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For the Ballona Junction project, we've been looking at some different developments, drawing from both local urban planning precedents, as well as architectural ideas of the city. Before looking at more theoretical work, we checked out a couple examples of New Urbanism & Garden Cities. The idea behind New Urbanism is to build a mix of different program types on a site, along with varying the

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Recently, I teamed up with John Mimms, a student working on his Masters in Urban Planning at USC, to fill out a non-place about a mile east of downtown Culver City.The site is located right where the expo line will end. "Transit-oriented" development near the site consists of a strip-mall that actually turns away from the street and inward toward its parking lot.The site itself is in a very

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[image via Lincoln 1111]Herzog & De Meuron's parking garage in Miami is done. It's a mixed-use parking garage with a couple condos at the top, stage space, & some retail. Santa Monica has some similar projects in the works, though not nearly as ambitious. The project ties into thoughts on the project I'm working on. We've envisioned a "parking garage" as event, right next to the end of LA's expo

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Just did a long post on archinect about the economy and felt I should post it here. The end of the post dovetails into an urban design project I'm working on with a USC Master's Student. We're trying to envision a new development that, while still having some new construction, focuses on compartmentalizing it so that costs and schedules can be shortened, and working a bit on the policy end,

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What would a construct look like whose functions are predicated entirely on connections between the real and digital world? If the network functions as a rational system, then the phenomenal structure that follows from its logic should express this desire towards a logical, clear language that can be read by the human eye. While the structural code of the building responds and forms spaces for

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I've been reading up on Computer Architecture lately and seeing some similarities to architectural thinking in the mode of "hyper-rationalism" as generally practiced by OMA and most clearly articulated by son-of-Rem Ramus. You have a set of different programmatic elements (microprocessor, memory, clock ship, etc) mediated by a "Basic Input Output System" that essentially acts as a circulation

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What would a space built purely as a conduit between the phenomenal & networked world look like?

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While reading Vernelis' introduction to the book he's working on, titled "The Meaning of Networked Culture: A History of the Contemporary," I came across the following quote:"... Postmodern theory was being formulated during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the network's future role was largely unclear. Networks and media had hardly changed in a half century, with the exception of color television

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[image from the aptly named "Picture of California City From top of hill"]The small town of California City, located about an hour north of Death Valley, has been the subject of much online chit-chat lately. Frequent references to it can be found on BLDG BLOG. Recently, in collaboration with the Travel Site Atlas Obscura ("A compendium of of the World's Wonders, Curiousities, & Esoterica") there

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I've had a great week, thumbing through this month's issue of Icon Magazine, which focuses on speculative Fiction. A few choice works are particularly exciting. China Mieville tells us about Skyhooks, Bruce Sterling muses on a human being who lives fully in the Network, and Will Self sees Ballard's dreams come true in Dubai.Here are a few quotes:Mieville: "The Earth is a thin-spoked wheel. Its

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[image from Media Art Net]During the period of 2000-2003, artists Eva & Franco Mattes turned over their cultural privacy to the Internet for a project called "Life Sharing." They made every single file on their computer available for public access and pushed voyeurism to the extreme.To quote this essay on the project by Marina Grzinic:"In contrast to obscurantist New Age allusions, namely that

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I posted a copy of my portfolio on issuu. The link is here. Please excuse a few small formatting errors & extraneous lines, I'll get to them at some point. Feedback / ripping me apart is encouraged!It's old projects from school and a competition I did last year. The focus is decidedly practical and traditional. It's strange to look back at old work, sift through dusty libraries of gifs, jpegs, &

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If you're trying to get into graphics programming, it can be a bit of a pain to sift through all the online forums and figure out what you need to know, what you don't need to know, etc. I've been working through Processing and have gotten to the point where I'm ready to use it on some actual projects.Before it can really be useful, however, it's important to be able to get your creations into

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It's been a couple months. I've finally compiled my portfolio of school and personal projects. As I'll be using it as a "work" portfolio, I've tried to keep things practical. I'm also almost done putting together a simple website, learning some simple php. The result will be something decidedly like Indexexhibit, but it'll be satisfying to actually code and set it up myself.At the same time, I'm

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The ancient glyphs of Amarakind raced past his eyes. Julius, sprinting through the dim tunnel, heard the on-off sound of electric humming, which often crescendoed to a loud buzz. He glanced back and saw the huge, amorphous blob. He shivered as it lurched forward, engulfing the circumference of the tunnel. Its gooey skin, expanding and contracting at quick intervals, propelled it forward.Out of

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It's been a few weeks since I've updated. I'm working hard on putting together a portfolio, which includes a few new projects and some programming, learning new programs, etc. That being said, I've been going through Ira Greenberg's "Processing, Creative Coding and Computational Art," along with Mark Lutz's tome "Learning Python." My end goal is to create some interesting procedures for creating

Kevin Clementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818068661869465555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893819083073318545.post-42996551824315886812009-11-29T17:19:00.000-08:002010-06-07T14:15:07.879-07:00

[image from Connor Wingfield]Connor recently launched his website. The URL is http://connorwingfield.com/.[image from Connor Wingfield][image from Connor Wingfield]These two photos are of the Shadow Art Gallery in Beijing, which he worked on with Ai Wei Wei and Andy Lee, among others.[image from Connor Wingfield][image from Connor Wingfield]And these two (and the first image) are part of a

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MARSEXT. OPEN PLAIN - DAYIron dust blows against rusted scrap metal, obscures a bloody Sun.Mars’ largest mountain, OLYMPUS MONS, rises above the horizon. A city of smokestacks crowd up its face and spew soot.INT. DARK RED ROOM - DAYA disaster zone. Broken beer bottles and scattered furniture.DIDO, (28), voluptuous with dark eyes and hair, curled up against a dirty wall.Bruised and malnourished,

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[image from New York Times]Lynda Rosco Hartigan's book on Joseph Cornell, titled Navigating the Imagination, brings up a handwritten note at the beginning of one of Cornell's scrapbooks. Taken from the Christian Science Journal, it reads "Nothing is ours to keep for ourselves. Money, talent, time, whatever it may be that we possess, is only ours to use. This is the great law written everywhere.

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[image from Tomorrow's Thoughts Today]If you've been following any of the blogs buzzing around Bartlett or the Architecture Association, you'll notice a new type of architectural thinking emerging. While these schools have always been known for their forward-looking, speculative architecture, the emphasis seems to have shifted to the creation of futuristic narratives. While artists as diverse as

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[image from handbin]I haven't been updating much in the past couple months as trying to finish a new architecture competition a month + pouring through critical theory texts + an onslaught of day-job work leaves me exhausted enough at the end of the day. That being said, I'm still able to squeeze in some reading on my favorite blogs.Jack Self over at Millennium People continues to be prolific,

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I've shifted gears the last month and have been assiduously working on a couple architecture competitions, learning some new computer programs, and catching up on some reading. That beings said, I've got a lot of things on my mind to write about. In the meantime, the three blogs listed below have been providing me with a lot of good reading:http://htcexperiments.org/ is written by David Gissen.

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[image from Chain of Eco-Homes]I just finished working on the Chain of Eco-Homes Design competition with a colleague from school. We were laughing about its copious use of the word Green in its title: "The Green House: Greensburg Greentown Green Home Contest Entry." And guess what we creatively named our submission? "The Green House." 'Cause it has a greenhouse on it's south wall for heating and

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I have a new article over at D/visible titled: Fate or Free Will? Exploring Visual Style and Story Structure in Slumdog Millionaire, City of God, and Chungking Express. It's a sort've compare / contrast article that I hope offers some interesting insights. The article can be found here. By Kevin Clement

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[image from Green Knight]I spent part of the day browsing through the Urban Exploration Resource and found some great photos. The crater above is known as Mount Eden. The crater is 50 meters deep and erupted 15,000 years ago. I love the lushness of it and the way it looks so groomed. Amazing photo with Auckland in the background.The photos below were a few of the best I found today. The first

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I posted earlier this month about the Nashville Parthenon. Last night, I found this song by "Casiotone for the Painfully Alone." It's pretty emo-ed out, but it's a cool song and I can't resist posting it here.Here is the link.By Kevin Clement

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[image from here]Eating Bark has an old, general post about stuff built in Russia. One of the links goes to English Russia, a site in our blogroll, but one I haven't visited in awhile. Anyway, the post has amazing photos of Chernobyl taken in 2006 by Alexandr Vikulov. Check out a couple below and go to English Russia to see more of them:[image from English Russia]A lot of the photos look like

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Michael-In-The-MoonRecently, the Moon crater formally known as Posidonius J, located on the aptly titled Lake of Dreams, was renamed after Michael Jackson. Nearby, MJ himself owns about 1,200 acres of Moon real estate. And as we all know, his desire to do the Moonwalk, on the Moon, had led him to seek out companies that could make him the first pop star in outer space. Due to his untimely death,

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[image by Carles Sanchez]I have a new article over at Dvisible about the relationship of architects like Peter Zumthor to phenomenology. You can find the article here. I also wanted to draw attention to a book a cited quite a bit throughout the article titled "Heidegger's Hut" by Adam Sharr. It's really well-written and puts forth a pretty objective view of Heidegger's life and work. The author

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I was browsing through Santa Monica's Hennessy and Ingles the other day when a new book from El Croquis that chronicles the work of Swiss Firm Gigon / Guyer caught my eye. I had heard of them and one of my old classmates had even put a study together of their Kirchner Museum in Davos (pictured below) but with that being my only experience of them, I found the work elegant and clean, but not

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They've been at it for awhile. Nanoarchitecture.net posts science-based research papers on nanotechnology and explains each paper's relevance to architectural design. A few recent posts are especially fascinating.[image from nanowerk. Research done at UC Berkeley]The diagram above shows a nanosensor that glows when the material it's implanted in is under stress. "The team combined the structural

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INT. SPACECRAFT - COCKPITRed emergency lights flash.Donis sits in the pilot seat alone, wears a pressurized spacesuit.A giant black and white object looms before him. This is the Moon.He flips a switch; the red lights stop flashing. Pure white light that glints off jagged Moon rocks fills the cabin.He pilots over a giant crater, takes the ship towards the surface.Trent steps into the cockpit,

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[image from DeTnk]Chicago Architecture In The Loop wrote an article recently that begins thus: "Trust me. I know "modern"."He goes on to chronicle his experience of architectural movements from the mid-century modern house of his youth to "the computer inspired millennial modern return-of-the-curve." My favorite line describes architects that unflinchingly peg the latest and greatest

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[image from aidemocracy]I'm working on the Chain of Eco-Homes competition with a buddy and we were discussing the aesthetics of an entire city oriented toward catching the sun's rays. Imagine if every home in a sprawling city (Milwaukee, Indianapolis?) had greenhouses oriented to the south side of the building to trap heat. It would be interesting to fly in from the south side and be faced with

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I've been working on an article for Dvisible lately about the architecture of Peter Zumthor. His book, titled Thinking Architecture, lays out his phenomenological visions in a very poetic fashion. We get descriptions that are very "place" specific and grounded in tactile experience.In stark contrast, networked culture has the potential to create a new type of architecture through a more analytic,

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