A few images from MoMA’s permanent collection of Architecture and Design and from the prefab exhibition. It’s pretty incredible what these guys have in their vaults.
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008New Practices NY
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Bucky Fuller
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Buckminster Fuller’s exhibition at the Whitney is fantastic. On the first floor is the Dymaxion car, which, cool as it is, is surpassed by the beautiful technical drawings for it.
The fourth floor is where the main exhibit is, and there are some incredible drawings and models of experiments and projects of ranging scales. There were quite a few projects and many drawings, sketches as well as footage of Fuller that I had never seen before, and it was truly a treat.
I left the exhibition feeling a bit uneasy though: there has to be some level of insanity in someone that has such faith in technology as the savior. His completely ‘technocratic-utopian’ view seems in a sense harmless (even naive), yet it displaces man so swiftly.
Don’t miss the fantastic model and drawings of the floating city, the incredible sketch for the World Fair and his geometric models.
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P.F.1
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Today was the first of MoMA’s P.S.1 warm-up sessions for the summer. Work A.C’s winning entry, P.F.1 has, in a way, restored my faith in the competition. After a few years of The installation is in my view, one of the smartest and best ever to be assembled in the museum’s garden. Not only is it very current as an idea (urban farms), it is simple, utilizes common materials in a different way, it is cheaply made and absolutely cool. It was definitely refreshing to see.
More images after the jump below.
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On Beijing
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Paul Goldberger from The New Yorker has a new article in the latest issue about Beijing and its incredible rate of change…
“Chinese people don’t like anything old—they want everything new. If someone came from the moon, they would think this is a newer country than America.” She paused. “Maybe that is what Mao wanted,” she said.
Read the article here.
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Atmospherics
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
We made it downtown to the Phillips de Pury & Company Gallery to take a look at Hani Rashid’s Atmospherics exhibition.
By far the best pieces were the the chandelier, the jewelry boxes and the RP’d vases. The smaller scale pieces just seem to have been figured out a bit better than the larger scale ones.
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Urban A&O Web Launch
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The website for Joe MacDonald’s studio Urban A&O was recently launched. The project was led by Mike Szivos at SOFTlab.
Go check it out at www.urbanao.com
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Buckminster Fuller
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
The New Yorker has an interesting article on Buckminster Fuller’s vision and (failed) projects, soon to be on display at The Whitney Museum of Art here in NYC. It poses the question of WHAT is it exactly that is relevant -yet so hard to pin down- of Fuller’s trajectory.
Read the article here.
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Cooper Union
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Today was the opening for Cooper Union’s end of year show. I got to walk around the architecture and art shows and saw a lot of beautiful models, some great drawings, and a few fun/smart pieces of art.
The one above was one of my favorites: a hand crank break dancer + MC Hammer zoetrope. Can’t beat it.
See images of some interesting projects on view after the jump.
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Endangered LES
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008The Lower East Side of Manhattan has been declared one of the 11 most endangered historical places in the U.S. by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
And I always thought Real Estate Developers and hipsters were good for the environment…
Read the NYT article here or visit the NTHP here.
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Fortune for Mampe
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Mampe, good luck in China. I figured you could use some wisdom.
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PKNY
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Pecha Kucha is tonight…
See you there.
Update:
Here are some random images from last night’s presentations
abalos y herreros
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Terminal 5 and Terminal 3
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Paul Goldberger has written an interesting article / review in The New Yorker on Foster’s Terminal 5 at Heathrow, and how the idea of the airport was rethought for this specific project. Then, on Rogers’ Terminal 3 in Madrid and how, with smart strategies, the experience of the infinite corridor can be a pleasing one.
Read the article here.
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Temporarily permanent
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Nothing says “temporary stay” like the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the U.S.’s largest diplomatic compound anywhere in the world, which is now ready.
“It’s been a difficult few weeks, rockets are bouncing off your buildings, and maintaining focus can be an occasional challenge,” (ambassador) Crocker said…
Read the CNN article here.
Read my previous entry here.
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Reusing PC heat
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Heat produced by computers has long been one of those byproducts that are, more often than not, vented to the exterior and therefore wasted. A computer center in Switzerland is reusing the heat produced by its equipment to warm up a town pool. The town payed for part of the system to reroute the heat but it’ll continue to use it or free. A cool symbiotic relationship that will probably become a model.
Read the Wired article here.
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GAUD++ Opening Pics
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Last night, after an awesome lecture by Jose Oubrerie on the completion of The Church of Saint Pierre, the student work show GAUD++ curated by the independent study group opened in the first level gallery at Pratt.
From left to right:
Sean Dugan, Mike Szivos, Troy Zezula, Jason Mcgee, Andrew Seskunas and Robert Beach.
View some low quality pics after the jump, but check out better pics from the opening in their blog here.
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GAUD++ Opening Tonight
Monday, March 31st, 2008
GAUD++
Opening Reception
March 31, 2008
Immediately following lecture
Robert and Hazel Siegel Gallery
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11205
To see the development of the project, please visit the blog at: http://www.gaudplusplus.com/
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United Bottle
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Last Friday was the opening of United Bottle, a project by INSTANT ARCHITECTS, Dirk Hebel & Jörg Stollmann with Tobias Klauser at the Van Alen Institute. A very smart and interesting solution to the issue of waste.
Read about the project at the Van Alen’s site here.
More images after the jump below.
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Jean Nouvel Wins Pritzker Price
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Image:Valerio Mezzanotti
Read the NYT article here.
What the hell is up with that picture anyways?
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Gehry’s Serpentine Pavillion
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Gehry’s proposal for the Serpentine Pavillion takes us back to, I’d say, 1996 (remember decon anyone?). Maybe his assistants submitted the study model instead of the final one…
Read the BBC article here.
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