7 things I saw in Lisboa, 22/06-26/06.
Pencil & grid / Nasreen Mohamedi
Foam / Jorge Barbi
Space / Galeria Ze Dos Bois
Gesture / Manuel Mota & Margarida Garcia
Wordplay / Art & Language
On Air / Jim Ferraro
Violin Alap / Dr. L Subramaniam
SND / Florian Hecker
Title: Jean Baudrillard
09 Jun 10
09 Jun 10
Control Space: Assembled images on urban cybernetics. Title: Norbert Wiener.
30 May 10
Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs, bound in a book by Hatje Cantz.
stro' phe' nome is a series of graphics produced using a gestural interface. A study of unseen architecture. The work is published as stdio.006.
Piotr Kamler & Bernard Parmegiani, Une Mission Ephemere (1993)
Minimal paths, pneumatics / Frei Otto
Cantenary Bifurcations / Thomas Wong
Artesanal Voronoi / Seven Six Five
Complex City / Lee Jang Sub
Three 3 / Kat Masback
Vector Fields / Biothing
We attain to dwelling, so it seems, only by means of building. The latter, building, has the former, dwelling, as its goal. Still, not every building is a dwelling.
The Old English and High German word for building, buan, means to dwell. This signifies: to remain, to stay in place. The real meaning of the verb bauen, namely, to dwell, has been lost to us. But a covert trace of it has been preserved in the German word Nachbar, neighbour. The neighbour is in Old English the neahgebur; neah, near, and gebur, dweller.
Building and thinking are, each in their own way, inescapable for dwelling.
Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build.
- Martin Heidegger
Sennett's Corrosion of Character and Heidegger's Building, Dwelling, Thinking interacting on the site of SANAA's Moriyama House, Tokyo, which is arranged as a set of distinct housing components forming a network of compact structures[1][2]. Aside from its modularity (and flexibility) and play on house/garden public/private polarities, I'm drawn in particular to the proportions of the site. How the dimensions of both street and house are strictly related to the human body, despite it being a suburban location, how this kind of scale makes it seem all the more dwellable.
Photographs by Takashi Homma & Iwan Baan, from the books Tokyo and Single Story Urbanism.
A portrait of Eliane Radigue (2009) by Maxime Guitton.
Paris with H, 8/04-12/04
drawings / Claude Parent
horizons / Jan Dibbets
volumes / Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
cubes / Sol LeWitt
The full transcript of my first academic seminar is now online: Microplexes. It's housed at urbagram.net, which will be the home of my research into urban systems.
Papilio Dardanus exhibit phenotypic polymorphism in their variation of wing pattern. The forms can be reproduced mathematically using a variation of Turing's reaction-diffusion model with a particular reaction kinetics (Sekimura et al).
Philip Beesley's talk on living architectures, one of several highlights of mine at Sonic Acts XIII, along with J.P. Sonntag's low frequency standing waves and BJ Nilsen's multi-channel storm in a church.
Mark Wilson, PSC31, Digital Inkjet print (2003), @Room 90 V&A
Top: Habitat '67 (Montreal Expo). Bottom: OMA interlace city, Singapore
