FULL BODY SCAN: Image and text courtesy of the 'New Aesthetic' Blog.
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Reyner Banham - Loves Los Angeles
Reyner Banham was an architectural critic and prolific writer on design click on the link from wikipedia.
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Alexander Brodsky
Alexander Brodsky is a russian architect famous for his imaginary projects, sculptures and installations.He currently has an installation at the Calvet 22 Gallery in Shoreditch.
Here is a review of the current exhibition by Rowan Moore for The Guardian.
Another article in Metropolis.
Another article in Metropolis.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Life-size model of the human body
White's Physiological Manikin, 1886
James T. White & Co.
This life-sized fold-out model of the human body was marketed for at least 20 years. The manikin's flaps correspond to lecture topics such as the circulatory system, the brain and nervous system, the skeleton and muscles, venereal disease and the physiology of reproduction (male and female), first aid, and the dangers of corseting (visible in the far right).
Another view of the same foldout from The Science Museum London.
Kaplan Krueger
This is work by Kaplan Krueger published in Pamphlet 14. A copy of which is available in the studio for perusal.
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Thursday, 20 September 2012
ROCA Gallery
Former year one students help Pernilla Orhstedt create this sumptous backdrop for a catwalk show at the ROCA Gallery during London Fashion Week. This piece and other artifacts are currently on show and it is well worth a trip as the gallery was designed by Zaha Hadid.
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| designed by Pernilla Ohrstedt |
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| designed by Zaha Hadid Architects |
Thursday, 30 August 2012
volunteering to make built project
Is any body out there interested in making an exciting installation for fashion week/ design week. It is an installation for Antipodium's Catwalk that will subsequently be exhibited at Roca Gallery for design week (the one by Zaha Hadid in imperial wharf)
The piece is quite ambitious, a refracting/ magnifying skin that forms the backdrop of the show and eventually turns into a part of the collection. It is made up of many small pieces and we could really use from some students with nimble fingers.
We will mainly need help from the 3rd to the 10th and will be assembling in a workshop in Hackney Central.
Let me know if you can think of anyone who might be interested.
Monday, 20 August 2012
Thursday, 22 March 2012
el croquis - great offer and chance to start digital library
This publication started of as a student magazine. It features the works of many well known architects and the joy of the issues is that has drawings,models and photographs of built works. click here for link
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
from the Observer 18.03.12
Don't let children lose sight of the pleasure principle
As Plan B made clear at TEDx, stories should be an essential part of inspiring young people
Read a story at the right age and it will never leave you, says novelist Neil Gaiman. Photograph: Jill Mead
Every writer who visits a school gets asked this question: where do ideas come from? The standard response is to quote Douglas Adams ("Ideas R Us in Swindon"), but I feel uncomfortable fobbing off children with one-liners.
A newly qualified teacher asked me to visit his class. I said: "OK, but I don't do workshops or worksheets or anything. I believe in reading for pleasure." Fine, he said, then he introduced me to his class thus: "We're going to use our listening skills (he touched his ears) to pick out Frank's wow words and his connectors." Great. Can't wait.
If you've been made to list the wow words and connectors in a story, it will never haunt you. At last week's TEDx/Observer ideas conference, at which I spoke, the talk by Ben Drew, aka Plan B, dedicated to inspiring kids, was terrific. If, when we give our children a story or a picture, we ask for some meaningless written exercise in return, we are making one of the most ancient forms of giving ("Listen, I'll tell you a story") as transactional as Ideas R Us.
I think pleasure is a form of attention. If you can take pleasure in something – an idea, an activity – then your brain will happily entertain it for years without aim or objective. It's therefore a particularly open form of thinking that allows you to surprise yourself and the rest of humanity. If you look at Darwin's account of the Beagle voyage, for instance, it's a completely carefree book. It's mostly an account of his adventures – watching volcanos erupt, being caught in an earthquake.
His days on Galapagos are some of the most important in the history of ideas, but the most vivid moment in this account is his description of repeatedly lobbing a marine lizard into the sea and watching it swim back. It's like a paragraph from Just William.
The thing about pleasure is that it can seem aimless until it's ready to deliver. Yet, thanks to the cult of testing, we are constantly chivvying our children to hand stuff in, to "feed back". We encourage them to be focused and driven. There's a time and a place for being focused and driven. The time is Saturday night. The place is X Factor.
The cult of testing has its roots in that great modern superstition: competition. Competition might sharpen the knife, but it will never invent the knife. The writer Neil Gaiman said: "Stories that you read when you're the right age never quite leave you... if they touch you, they will haunt the places in your mind that you rarely visit."
Clearly there's a place for testing but there also has to be a place for giving – for sharing – those things that are great and amazing without asking for anything back. We have no idea what their future holds. How can we – tethered to the present – possibly know what their aims and objectives should be?
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Bulletin for 20.03.12
Dear all doing ARCT 1049, please look at moodle for instructions for your submission. In any case all are to be there with their portfolio work and some thoughts on the audit at 1000 in the South Studio.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Bart Prince
Please take a look at the work of Bart Prince. The images are from Dornob .
A video of Bart Prince talking about the use of model making in the design process from Dwell magazine .
here is a link to his office .
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
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