The Impact of Large Scale Integrated Displays on Architecture and Urbanism.

Magic Monkey’s living architecture project for Electrabel’s Power Station in Drogenbos, Belgium

I have mixed feelings on LED facade architecture and in particular the placing of large  LED Screens in publc spaces. I’m therefor glad to see that these technologies … Read More

Performative Ecologies – Ruairi Glynn

Performative Ecologies Film 15Mb Development of Performative Ecologies Film 25Mb Website

Well here’s whats been keeping me busy these past months. I got the opportunity to share my most recent collection of responsive environments, collectively called “Performative … Read More

We Love Technology

I’m doing a talk this coming Thursday 12 July at We Love Technology 07 in Huddersfield (UK) alongside  technologists and artists working in areas such as interactive architecture, sound and games, all presenting new creative uses and misuses of technology. … Read More

Bartlett Summer Show 2007

Anamorphic Tectonics – Theatre for Magicians –  Sara Shafiei Unit 20Roll up, Roll up, for the Bartlett Summer Show with over 450 students showing innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and even a couple of interactive installations (such as my … Read More

Interactive Architecture Returns

After a blogging sabbatical of 3 months to focus on my own work I’m pleased to say that Interactive Architecture dot Org will now resume.  I’m going to cover a few recent projects I’ve seen, that I didn’t get a … Read More

Marek Walczak – MW2MW and Kinecity

As part of the Interactive Architecture event at Eyebeam in January, Marek Walczak spoke about his own work and collaborations with Martin Wattenberg who together make up MW2MW and his collaborations with Jakub Segen and Michael McAllister … Read More

Life Size – David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang

David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang of ‘The Living’ Architects presented their recent work at the Interactive Architecture event I organised at Eyebeam last month. They have just released 2 lovely little … Read More

Eric Schuldenfrei – Reciprocity

“In the world of surveillance, the architecture of systems has effectively replaced architecture.” Eric Schuldenfrei

I was introduced to the work of Eric Schuldenfrei recently by Eyebeam Resident Jennifer Broutin. Schuldenfrei’s work focuses on the … Read More

SplineGraft – Krets

The SplineGraft project sets up a reactive environment in which sound dampening panels are continuously reshaped by a network of actuating devices, triggered by user movement. The panels are grafted into an existing environment, supported by structural racks allowing … Read More

Gary Chang – Reconfigurable Living Spaces – Suitcase House Hotel

When Gary Chang spoke at the Simplicity Symposium at Ars Electronica curated by John Maeda last year, I was amazed by his life story growing up in Hong Kong in cramped conditions and how as an architect these experiences … Read More

Guerrilla Lighting – Switched ON London

Graffiti Writing to Guerrilla Lighting, yes it seems everyones a rebel these days, even the director of BDP lighting, Martin Luptn who has assembled a crack team of local lighting designers, architects, interior designers and manufacturers, all of whom are … Read More

Lazer Tagging – Graffiti Research Lab

If your in Rotterdam at the moment, get down to the Graffiti Research Lab‘s most recent offering. I got to see a sneak peak while I was at Eyebeam in New York a few weeks ago and I’m really … Read More

Interactive Architecture – Eyebeam – Report

My thanks to everyone who came along to Eyebeam yesterday. It was amazing to see so many people turn up from both the architecture and interactive media world. I hope in some way that the event contributed a little … Read More

Interactive Architecture – Eyebeam – New York

Interactive Architecture dot Org is going Stateside! I’ve just finished putting the final touches to organising my first Interactive Architecture Event. It has been put together with the generous support of Eyebeam, New York,  and Professor Stephen Gage of the … Read More

Moving Structure – Pavel Hladik

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I’m always interested in kinetic architecture so I was excited to hear about Pavel Hladik’s current project which investigates the possibility of material systems that could enable new forms of interactive environment. This project aims to find … Read More

NoRA

The NoRA structure designed by students of Architecture & Design, Aalborg University, was presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale as an interactive architecture exploring how advanced architectural computing and … Read More

Dune 4.0 – Daan Roosegaarde

Dune 4.0 by Daan Roosegaarde is an interactive landscape which physically changes its appearance in accordance to human presence. Placed in the main corridor of Montevideo, Dune 4.0 is composed of hundreds of fibers which react in correspondence to … Read More

Zaragoza Digital Mile

In December William J. Mitchell presented The Zaragoza ‘Digital Mile’  (detailed info) to the students at the Bartlett. Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance up till now to write about it so … Read More