new york NEW YORK
What do outer space capsules, submarines, and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system: a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary that does not allow for the transfer of matter or energy.
Photo: NASA.
competition, exhibition, lydia KALLIPOLITI, storefront for art and architecture
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bangkok THAILAND
An experimental architecture / for human and birds exchanges / with healthy benefits & robotic fab / ecosophy+anthroposophy. . . .
architecture, camille LACADÉE, francois ROCHE, Kickstarter, New-Territories
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atlanta GEORGIA
Cylinders, spheres and cubes are a small handful of shapes that can be defined by a single word. However, most shapes cannot be found in a dictionary. They belong to an alternative plastic world defined by trigonometry: a mathematical world where all shapes can be described under one systematic language and where any shape can transform into another.
book, Design Topology Lab, joseph CHOMA, morph, morphing, ONtheRADAR
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lisbon PORTUGAL
Brave New Now is a collection of specially commissioned short stories set in a fictional future city developed by speculative architect Liam Young for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Authors have been invited to inhabit the city, to breathe life into its characters and cultures and give form to its streets and spaces through narrative. . . .
image: Hovig ALAHAIDOYAN.
Bas PRINCEN, Brice RICHARD, Charlie KOOLHAAS, Christina SEELY, Daniel BELTRÁ, Greg GIRARD, Greg WHITE, Liam YOUNG, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Michael WOLF, Neil CHOWDHURY, ONtheRADAR, science fiction, THoman WEINBERGER, Victoria SAMBUNARIS, Vincent FOURNIER, Warren ELLIS
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london UNITED KINGDOM
Digital Poetics: An Open Theory of Design-Research in Architecture celebrates the architectural design exuberance made possible by new digital modelling techniques and fabrication technologies. By presenting an unconventional and original “humanistic” theory of CAD (computer-aided design), the author suggests that beyond the generation of innovative engineering forms, digital design has the potential to affect the wider complex cultural landscape of today in profound ways.
book, CAD, computer-aided design, design research, exuberance, marjan COLLETTI, ONtheRADAR
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chicago ILLINOIS
In The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come, Sean Lally introduces the reader to an architecture produced by designing the energy within our environment (electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical).
book, energy, Lars Müller Publishers, ONtheRADAR, Sean Lally, weathers
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ann arbor MICHIGAN
We are pleased to announce the opening of the Possible Mediums exhibition.
adam FURE, kelly BAIR, kristy BALLIET, kyle MILLER, ONtheRADAR, possible MEDIUMS
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beijing CHINA
The exhibition, Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research, opened in 751-D, Beijing, China, on Friday 26 September 2013. The exhibition included the work of 32 of the leading schools of architecture in the world, including the AA, Harvard, USC, UPenn, MIT, Yale, Princeton, SCI-Arc, UCLA, UMichigan, Bartlett, IaaC, DIA, Angewandte, Tsinghua and Tongji, and was curated by Neil Leach and Xu Weiguo. The catalogue was published by China Architecture and Building Press.
exhibition & catalogue: “Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research,” curated and edited by Neil LEACH & XU Weiguo
Friday, 09/26 (opening) / 751-D
Beijing 100015, China
architecture, book, catalogue, design research, neil LEACH, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, XU Weiguo
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2013
The influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) invoked the productive possibilities of crisis, writing that history is a “project of crisis” (progetto di crisi). In this entry in the Writing Architecture series, Marco Biraghi explores Tafuri’s multifaceted and often knotty oeuvre, using the historian’s concept of a project of crisis as a lens through which to examine his historical construction of contemporary architecture.
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Anycorp, cynthia DAVIDSON, history, manfredo TAFURI, Marco BIRAGHI, ONtheRADAR, theory, writing
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2013
America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment.
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