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Unconventional Computing & Architecture

February 10, 2010 |

Coming up in London soon, the one-day conference explores new materials for architectural practice in the 21st century. International architects and scientists will explore the decision-making properties of matter and how this may be applied to create increasingly life-like buildings.

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The definitive book to date…

January 28, 2010 | | 2 Comments

Here a book I’ve really been meaning to post about for a long time. Published by PA Press, Michael Fox and Miles Kemp have put together as they call it “a processes-oriented guide to creating dynamic spaces and objects … Read More

Rachel Armstrong – Living Architecture

January 26, 2010 | | 3 Comments

Rachel Armstrong teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she is advocating a new approach to architecture — one that sees buildings becoming living things. One of the best things about working at the Bartlett … Read More

Kiefer Technic Showroom Facade

January 7, 2010 | | 5 Comments

Created by architect Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH this amazing project is called “Dynamic Facade” better known as the Kiefer Technic Showroom in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria.

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Hear Here — an acoustic theatre – Ric Lipson

December 28, 2009 |

Sound is an integral part of the way we understand the space surrounding us. Size, quality, timbre, texture and the atmosphere of a space can all be inferred by the way in which we experience sound. Based on ideas … Read More

Sniff – Emergence Exhibition

December 23, 2009 |

The final piece in the Emergence Exhibition is “Sniff” by Karolina Sobecka and Jim George. Sniff is an interactive projection: an animated dog follows passers-by, discerns their behavior as friendly or aggressive, tries to engage them and forms a … Read More

Leo Nunez – Emergence Exhibition

December 22, 2009 |

Another piece of work from the Emergence Exhibition “Propagations” by Leo Nunez is a system of cellular automatons, made up by 50 robots. Different states emerge from this complex system. These states are defined not only by the interaction … Read More

Emergence – Art and Artificial Life

December 21, 2009 |

I’ve just returned from California where I’ve installed Performative Ecologies at the Beall Center for Art + Technology for the Emergence Exhibition alongside the work of Marc Bohlen, Leo Nuñez, Karolina Sobecka and Jim George. Over a couple of posts … Read More

London Lecture – Passages Through Hinterlands

December 6, 2009 |

As part of the Bartlett School of Architecture International Lecture Series there will be a FREE Digital Architecture Event this coming Wednesday in London. http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/lectures/lectures.htm#9

image credit: Shampoo, AA Design Research Laboratory

Date:Wednesday 9th December , 2009 from 6.30PM Open … Read More

Nicholas Szczepaniak – A Defensive Architecture

November 12, 2009 | | 5 Comments

Nicholas Szczepaniak will recieve the RIBA Silver Medal next month for his extraordinary graduate project “A Defensive Architecture”. I am delighted to be the first person to be publishing his work in my recently release book “Digital Architecture: Passages … Read More

Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands

October 26, 2009 | | 8 Comments

Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands is a collection of provocative projects from a young generation of digitally enabled designers. This publication oscillates between the analog and the digital, from concept to realisation, mapping processes as it explores the diverse … Read More

Living Light

October 19, 2009 | | 4 Comments

Living Light by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang (aka “The Living“) is a permanent outdoor pavilion in the heart of Seoul with a dynamic skin that glows and blinks in response to both data about air quality and public … Read More

Towards a Sentient City

October 19, 2009 |

An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and urban space. Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York

www.sentientcity.net

As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, … Read More

Hand from Above

October 13, 2009 | | 10 Comments

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

By far one of the most interesting urban screens project I’ve seen to date, Chris O’Shea‘s describes his public art “Hand From Above” as encouraging “us to question our normal routine … Read More

f5x5x5 – Lab[au]

October 12, 2009 |

Made up of 700 meters of aluminium, 6750 LED’s and 5060 m of cables Lab[au]‘s Framework f5x5x5 is an interactive kinetic light sculpture, extending the bi-dimensional screen space, by transposition of its pixel resolution to the physical space. Conceived … Read More

Digital Hinterlands Exhibition

August 27, 2009 |

Digital Hinterlands features a diverse range of work by some of the best recent architecture graduates from London’s Architectural Association, Bartlett, Royal College of Art, and University of Westminster. Organised by Ruairi Glynn and curated in consultation with Arup, … Read More

Bartlett Digital Workshop

August 24, 2009 | | 4 Comments

Last minute places are still available for the Advanced CADCAM & Rapid Prototyping Training Course at the Bartlett School of Architecture in September.

The Bartlett School of Architecture has the most comprehensive digital fabrication suite dedicated to education … Read More

Digital Architecture London Conference 2009

August 16, 2009 |

I’ve been busy over the past couple of weeks putting the final touches to the first Digital Architecture London conference and I’m pleased to say that I’ve got everyone I really wanted to speak at the event to agree … Read More