December 2007

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• Articles, Ruairi Glynn

  Interactive Architecture Lecture @ Kunsthaus Graz

  12.20.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  As part of the Europrix exhibition held in the Kunsthaus,Graz, I did a short presentation about my views on Interactive Architecture and its relationships to other fields in the arts and sciences both practically and conceptually and also where my Performative Ecologies project fits into my research. See below and I apologies for saying ummm […]

• Architecture, Bartlett, Environmental, Interactive, Kinetic, Lighting, Networked, Scuplture/Installation

  Life Spectulatrix - Augmented Architectures

  12.18.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Video
  Here’s one of Augmented Architecture’s prototypes that I saw at the ACADIA07 earlier this year. “Life Spectulatrix” is an evolutionary physical skin based on digital environmental feedback retrieved through the webspace. Architect Nancy Diniz describes how it becomes a “universally situated living piece” through its own evolutionary behaviour in relation to global environmental information as […]

• Architecture, Lighting

  Mader Stublic Wiermann

  12.17.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  reprojected
  I first encountered the work of Mader Stublic Wiermann when Alexander Stublic did a talk at the MediaArchitecture Conference earlier this year. He presented four projects by the group in different technical environments focusing on correlations of space by extending and transforming architectural structures. I won’t cover the entire scope of their work […]

• Interactive, Kinetic, Scuplture/Installation

  David Rokeby - Cloud

  12.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  One project that caught my eye from Regine’s posts covering the VIDA awards was David Rokeby’s Cloud Installation currently suspended in the Great Hall at the Ontario Science Centre. One hundred identical sculptural elements, arranged in ten by ten grid, are rotated at slightly differing speeds by computer-controlled motors. The elements slowly shift in and […]

• Architecture, Furniture, New Materials, Scuplture/Installation

  Sean Hanna

  12.07.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Sean Hanna is an interesting architect/engineer whose work I’ve been meaning to cover for some time. He was awarded a American Institute of Architects Student Gold Medal and went on to work on algorithmic & parametric design aspects of major construction projects with architects including Foster and Partners and sculptor Antony Gormley. His research is […]

• Architecture, Events

  Capture & Context - London

  12.05.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s a last minute plug for “Capture & Context“, an exhibition opening at the Bartlett in London tomorrow. The exhibition presents the work of current EngD students at the Bartlett exploring innovative approaches to Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualization. It will show work in progress towards their individual research goals, representing a cross section of […]

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