Rendering the 20th Century
2011 KRob Finalist by Tom Chan with what looks like a Hipstamatic Holga-like color filter.
The 2011 KRob awards for architectural illustration were recently announced and…
Popping up and out of the network
“In this age of Yelp and G.P.S.-powered bar guides, where every venue is a Google click away, the pop-up club is the digital speak-easy, an unmarked venue without a cyber footprint.”
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The Universe of Available Possibilities
Similar to ZipCar, Hitoshi Abe‘s Megahouse proposes distributing the vacant buildings and spaces that permeate the modern city as a shared resource for citizens:
“Megahouse is a…
Image from Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux. Via BLDG Blog interview. Everything about this is incredible, from scale, to texture, to color, to the forced perspective tunnel.
If human history has been a constant tension between expansion and scarcity, the biological phenomenon of symbiosis may provide an alternative model for cities and human progress. via Cloud Collections
Plan-Section hybrid drawing by Diller+Scofidio for their Slow House Project (1989). Computer-generated print on frosted polymer sheet with graphite and colored ink mounted on painted wood with metal. An interesting take on the project, with explanation can be found here.
Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic.
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Image by SCI-Arc MArch2 student Zifan Liu
Image by SCI-Arc MArch2 student Zifan Liu
