Alan Resnais and Alan Robbe-Grillet’s insanely gorgeous dream/nightmare of a film still stuns and puzzles. About a man and woman (Delphine Seyrig with a new do and a closet of Chanel) who upon arriving at a hotel have a sense they may have met there a year previously. The hotel is overwhelmed by baroque ornamentation adding to the lush hallucination and confused seduction in this stylized masterpiece.
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lund SWEDEN
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mike MCKAY: Assistant Professor, Michael McKay, taught a PERFORMA workshop at Lund University, School of Architecture, Department of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics in Sweden. The two week workshop was part of a semester long studio, directed by Abelardo Gonzalez, composed of visiting guest professors.
new york NEW YORK
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erich SCHOENENBERGER / ferda KOLATAN: The apartment was remodeled to generate a more flexible spatial and programmatic layout and also reflect the creative and dynamic personalities of the owners. A multi-purpose “Interior Sleeve” was introduced to blend together the two ends of the apartment without having to use conventional walls or room dividers.
architecture, erich SCHOENENBERGER, ferda KOLATAN, k_residence
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eli LINGER / thomas MICHAEL: Flux Formation is an component-based ceiling system which integrates HVAC, fire protection, acoustic, electrical, and lighting systems into a continuous array. The impetus for the project arose from the shortcomings of traditional suspended grid systems, which are greatly limited by both standardized unit geometry (the square tile), and awkward systems integration (puncturing of the tile or concealment above). We were interested not only how these systems emerged and manifested themselves, but also in how we could create different experiential environments in the spaces below, as we attempted to develop a wide range of conditions throughout a continuous space (in this case, as small restaurant).
architecture, eli LINGER, thomas MICHAEL, university of pennsylvania
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
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sara SHAKIB: The Treescraper is a more sustainable version of the skyscraper, evolving the typology from an out-dated form of real estate
speculation towards a form of sustainable civic infrastructure, The Treescraper represents a novel future of these outdated bastions of speculative capital. The human population will increase to 9 billion by the year 2050, which suggests that increased density will be needed to produce food, however, at present 80% of the suitable lands for harvests are being used, therefore the idea of farming vertically seems like an good way to go about this problem. However, these skyscrapers need to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint by exploiting the emergent advances in green technology.
architecture, los angeles, sara SHAKIB
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maryam FAYYAZ: The E – formations research project asserts that architecture takes place on the edge of real and virtual. Virtual is projected onto the real to create alternate spaces and multiply the experience of the user. In this way architecture exists in layers and user has the control to switch in between the different layers of experience. It erases the concept of location and orientation for the person within the space and is very much the same phenomena as on the World Wide Web where we exist as text and image – phantoms of our own selves.
architecture, e - formations, maryam FAYYAZ, pratt institute
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lincoln NEBRASKA
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jon MARTIN: This was a retail/office hybrid tower study, for reintroducing urban retail to downtown Kansas City. The combination of diverse typologies allowed for a new formal and typological system to develop. The retail center is a bridge allowing the building to step over physical land barriers such as railways and highways that have cutoff traffic and have created a devolving sector of downtown. The structure from the bridge draws support from the twisting towers which have reinforced spines and are connected through a web of structural membrane.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
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sofia BORGES / danika VOORHEES: Ghostly Illumination enhances the sensory potentials of the Orthodox church through the strategic alignment of spatial boundaries. Through a series of pulls and pinches, spaces that once maintained rigid edge conditions begin to erode. This spatial erosion provides for a more dynamic and engaged experience for the user as sight lines collapse and extend and programmatic hierarchy dissolves, allowing for wider range of opportunities to intermingle between the priests and their patrons.
architecture, danika VOORHEES, ghostly illumination, sofia BORGES, UCLA
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manchester UNITED KINGDOM
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si SCOTT: An ongoing exploratory personnel project developing a series
of illustrative studies of flying insects.
digital art, illustration, matthew williamson, si SCOTT
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chicago ILLINOIS
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University of Illinois at Chicago
critic: sean LALLY
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christopher SAVANELLI & ivan OSTAPENKO: As metropolitan economies outgrow their bases in industrial manufacturing and trade into global markets for cultural production and consumption, large tracts of now disused land are being redeveloped to serve contemporary cultural institutions.
