January 2008

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• Architecture

  Party Dress - Dana & Karla Karwas

  01.29.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Party Dress by Dana Karwas and Karla Karwas is a roving performance that is part living architecture: part monumental fashion. It functions as a pavilion worn exclusively by five women that seamlessly injects architecture into fashion by using the body as space.

  The dress begins as a shared, bustled garment that gradually unfolds to create […]

• Architecture, Devices, Environmental, Kinetic

  Spinning Streetlights

  01.28.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here’s an interesting wind powered streetlight from the Panasonic Center in Tokyo that I found on hyperexperience blog run by Leonardo Bonanni of MediaLab. I’m a big fan of using these Vertical Axis Wind Turbines for integrating into urban skylines when traditional propellers often seem too dramatic.

• Architecture, Flying, Kinetic, Scuplture/Installation

  Troika - Cloud

  01.26.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  This seems to have spread all over the design and architecture blogs. Cloud by Troika is a beautiful object and really superb piece of engineering, especially with its mix of high tech digital control and nostalgic low tech actuation.

  There’s a nice video here from youtube and Chris O’Shea has some details on pixelsumo blog […]

• Architecture, Bartlett, Visual

  Shaun Murray

  01.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Shaun Murray’s projects are harbingers for a meaningful ecological (both machinic and natural) audit of specific sites and the development of a series of tactics and protocols that can deliver to architects a full understanding of their sites and of the agents, provocateurs, cybernetic systems and disparate observers and drifters that influence and use them […]

• Architecture

  AVATAR - Bartlett School of Architecture

  01.21.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Stuart Munro
  A New Website has been launched at Bartlett School of Architecture presenting selected members of AVATAR (the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Laboratory). AVATAR is conceived as a cross unit research group and agenda that explores all manner of digital and visceral terrain, its augmentation and symbiosis. Over recent years AVATAR has grown […]

• Architecture, Bartlett, Devices, Kinetic, Scuplture/Installation, robotics

  Michael Wihart - Soft Architectural Machines

  01.18.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Michael Wihart explored how ecologies of small machines made of nanotechnological and biotechnological elements might be able to swarm together to create architectural space and developed notions of how these spaces might reconfigure over time. Here’s some images of his work and some thoughts of his on the issues he raises.

  “The decadence and redundancy […]

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