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Chromatex.me – SOFTlab
August 27th, 2010 | Author: admin
Last thursday, August 26, NYC studio SOFTlab opened and installation at the bridegallery in New York City. The installation was made with over 4,600 panels each one with a unique color. The project was crowd-financed via kickstarter and for everyone who pledged for the projet their name was laser atached in one of the panels, which will be sent to the donator once the installation comes down. [More images after the break]
RE: Contemplating the Void Winners announced.
June 1st, 2010 | Author: admin
The Guggenheim is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and they have done so many things to celebrate, back in April we wrote abouth the competition “RE: Contemplating the Void: Intervention in the Guggenheim” where the museum invited participants to reimagine the museum´s iconic rotunda and submit their ideas via Flickr. At midnight on May 14, 2010 the competition was closed and the museum recived over 200 submissions. After careful review, Contemplating the Void curators Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and David Van Der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, have selected five winning submissions which are shown after the break. All submissions are available in the flickr pool.
Art615 – Aalborg University Students
May 20th, 2010 | Author: admin
During a 4 week workshop program called: Social Technologies 2010 at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Aalborg University, the students researched the link between CNC fabrication techinques and digital tools. The students worked together with Dolle Trapper and the result were 7 architectural models and the Pavilion Art615, more images and videos after the break.
Contemplating the Void – Create Your Own Guggenheim Intervention
April 21st, 2010 | Author: admin
To celebrate the close of the Guggenheim’s 50th Anniversary year, the Guggenheim Museum invites you to create your own dream intervention of the Guggenheim Museum. Now you can take on the same challenge that 200 artists, designers, and architects took on for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. More info after the break.
Mexican Modernisms
January 29th, 2010 | Author: admin
There is more to modernist architecture in Mexico than just the work of Luis Barragán, its most renowned representative. The detailed plans and impressive enlarged photographs in this exhibition offer a broad overview of architectural production in post-war Mexico. In addition, a unique series of documentary films and contemporary documents helps to flesh out this fascination evocation of the refined lines and raw functionalism of Mexican modernism.
At Bozar, the Fine Arts Centre in Brussels, the exhibition ‘Mexican Modernisms’ will open its doors to the general public the forthcoming 11th of February as part of the festival ¡MEXICO! The exhibition is a co-production between BOZAR (BE), A+ (BE) and CONACULTA (MEX) and presents a series of impressive enlarged photographs of 40 canonical architectural pieces build between 1930 and 1985. In addition, newly produced audiovisual documents review these buildings in their actual context. The curatorial work was realized by José Castillo and PRODUCTORA with additional research by Fernanda Canales and Alejandro Hernández. PRODUCTORA was in charge of the exhibition design. More info after the break.
Architectural Association Designing Fabrication Awards 2009 Showcased in London
September 24th, 2009 | Author: admin
The Architectural Association School is showcasing the work of eight award-winning architectural projects which demonstrate the most innovative integration of design and fabrication processes through digitally driven design systems in a new exhibition Designing Fabrication at Village Underground Art Space from September 21 – 26 as part of London Design Festival. The show will be open daily from 12-8 pm. A symposium exploring themes and issues raised by the awards and exhibition is taking place on Friday, September 25 from 2 – 6 pm. More info after the break.
FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape
September 21st, 2009 | Author: admin
FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape by CCA Architecture/MEDIAlab is an exhibition that focuses on the emerging field of advanced digital design. In the last two decades of architectural practice, new digital technologies have evolved from being simply representational tools invested in the depiction of existing models of architectural space to becoming significant performative machines that have transformed the ways in which we both conceive and configure space and material. These tools for design, simulation, and fabrication, have enabled the emergence of new digital diagrams and parametric landscapes—often emulating genetic and iterative dynamic evolutionary processes—that are not only radically changing the ways in which we integrate disparate types of information into the design process, but are also significantly altering the methodological strategies that we use for design, fabrication and construction. After the early digital explosion of the 1990’s, new forms of rigor and production have entered into the field of architecture, supporting the emergence of parametric and building information modeling and the enhanced use of computational geometry and scripting that together represent the second critical wave of digital design practices. That our current models of space are far more continuous, variant and complex, is specifically a result of the tools we are using to produce them, an inevitable byproduct of the ever-expanding capacities of digital computation and related fabrication technologies as these intersect with theoretical trajectories that long ago dismantled the social, functional and technological truths of the early part of this century.
