Fractals video by xlace. Thanks to @generatorx and @subblue for sharing this on twitter.
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Tomas Saraceno
Title: 14 billions (working title)
Year: 2010
Dimensions/Scale 1:17 Latrodectus mactans web
Materials: Black rope, black elastic chords, hooks
Exhibited: Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 2010.
Courtesy: The artist and Andersen’s Contemporary, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and pinksummer contemporary art
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As we have often highlighted on this blog, flickr is one of the most important social networking tools for our office, as it allows us to keep in contact with many people and to share our work. One of the most successful operations we have carried out on flickr is the Passerella 2006 Flickr Group where we collect photos of our footbridge in Turin taken by people.
With this post we would like to share a small selection of pictures coming from our Flickr network. This is a good example of how networking is about learning and discovering things, rather than just advertising your own work.
‘The Alphabet’ is the name of the first joint project between ewo, the manufacturer of superior-quality lighting systems, and the inter-disciplinary team at JDS ARCHITECTS. The project in the ewoLAB series will be revealed to the public for the first time at Frankfurt’s Light+Building from 11.04.2010 to 16.04.2010.
The idea here was to develop a lighting system, which in terms of both form and technical specifications, meets project requirements.
C’est l’art de faire de faire des images par le calcul.
On peut le comprendre dans un sens très strict, comme le font les algoristes, en exigeant qu’il n’y ait rien d’autre que le calcul, ou tolérer que le calcul brut soit suivi de retouches diverses dans des logiciels graphiques, voire intégré à des photo-montages. Il est évident qu’aucune école artistique ne peut conserver bien longtemps de frontière bien rigoureuse et qu’il y aura toujours quelqu’un pour mélanger les genres.
L’inauguration de la passerelle de La Roche sur Yon, organisée par la Mairie de la Ville, se déroulera le Samedi 6 Février 2010 à la Gare en présence des différents élus, financeurs, concepteurs et architectes ainsi que d’autres intervenants majeurs pour l’aboutissement d’un tel projet. Cette journée peut se dérouler après la validation du comportement de l’ouvrage (épreuves de chargement de l’ouvrage réalisées dans la nuit du 14 au 15 Décembre) et l’autorisation d’ouverture au public délivrée par les autorités compétentes.
Complexitys blog was conceived amid much brainstorming and deliberation, and with much enthusiasm, but with little idea of exactly which direction it would proceed in. Little more than two months after its birth and we’ve been surprised and encouraged to see the first important result of our devotion to, and investment in, an open online communication of architecture.
As Domenico Di Siena from Ecosistema Urbano Office explained in our “web for architects” training in Paris, “an architecture office’s blog is not a portfolio or a place to talk about themselves, but rather an incredibly powerful tool to create a community around the office’s activities and interests”.
Two months into the project and several blogs worldwide have begun talking about complexitys, so these words are now becoming reality.
Di solito per viaggiare e andare a visitare una città ho sempre bisogno di una scusa.
Ad esempio Venezia. E’ da qualche anno che la Biennale d’arte e d’architettura sono diventate la scusa per visitare questa bellissima città invasa dai turisti. Un poste posto bellissimo e, come direbbe questo professore, forse altrettanto inutile…?
La foto qui sopra l’ho scattata nella sala centrale del Padiglione Italia ed e’ forse una delle poche opere che ricordero’ di questa mostra MAKING WORLDS. L’artista è Tomas Saraceno (che vi invito a conoscere con questo nuovo strumento: spezify) e la sua installazione si presenta a molteplici interpretazioni. In particolare mi è sembrato, situato nel centro nevralgico della mostra, un riuscitissimo ritratto della complessità della contemporaneità e allo stesso tempo una speculazione costruttiva sui cambiamenti culturali che la stanno caratterizzando.