09/10 - 01 Interim Crit

A good day was had (too good to remember to take photos) - onwards to the Final Crits at the end of April...
Many thanks to our visiting critics: Mike Halliwell (Foster + Partners), Bruno Silvestre (Bushow Henley Architects), Nick Gazanis (astudioarchitecture), Ashifah Dhalla (Shepheard Epstein Hunter), Gesa Schenk (Sparch) and Anna Mansfield.

Faber Podcasts

LINK HERE

Notebooks and Narrative - Belfast Exhibition

What ideas do we carry with us in our pocket? How do we use the ‘device’ of the personal sketchbook/ notebook? Featuring:
Grafton Architects Tom de Paor Shane O ‘Toole Peter Cody Ciaran Mackel Tarla MacGabhann Paul Clarke Nigel Murray Seamus Lennon Nigel Peake Niall O’Hare Michael Doherty Susie Carson Gerry Cahill Sheila O’Donnell & John Tuomey

LINK HERE

Model Visions...

Some links for images of architects models...
Mixtacity -everyday objects and bespoke artifacts... NIGEL COATES Supercity - Will Alsop for Manchester - ALSOPARCHITECTS
Venice Biennale 2004 - Arsenale - DESIGNBOOM
Venice Biennale 2006 - British Pavilion - DESIGNBOOM
Venice Biennale 2008 - Chilean Pavilion - DESIGNBOOM

architectural disorder - OVADA Gallery, Oxford

"The pending redevelopment and architectural alterations of OVADA art gallery in Oxford city centre yielded the conception of a group exhibition of works by artists who take their inspiration from architectural concepts, and notions of changing space in order to provide multiple ways for viewers to relate to, use, enjoy, and occupy space through varying levels of consciousness. "

LINK HERE

09/10 - Plaster casting workshop

Relief, texture, pattern.....

OBU - Sonic Arts Festival

25th-27th February 2010
"An eclectic mix of contemporary and experimental music, including performances from ensembles Okeanos & [rout], pianist Catherine Laws, Dutch composer and flute virtuoso Jos Zwaanenburg, Diego Garro and improvising duo exquisite corpse. The event also features installation work from Stephen Cornford, alongside a sonic tuck shop and disfunctional disco.

There's a call for short electroacoustic, computer music, and sound art works too."

OBU LINK HERE

09/10 - the ORDOS project

100 Architects were invited to propose 100 villas by Herzog De Meuron architects in the inner Mongolian landscapes of China... here is one example by Sou Fujimoto. Check the website for models, drawings and project descriptions.

ARCHIDAILY
ORDOS PROJECT WEBSITE

09/10 - MOMA In-Situ Exhibition

Superstudio’s The Continuous Monument: On the Rocky Coast, project perspective (1969).
Image: the Museum of Modern Art

"In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms ex novo, with little consideration for their surroundings. More recently, however, the challenges of a threatened environment and rapidly expanding cities have fostered a revised understanding of landscape. Harmony between the spatial, social, and environmental aspects of human life has become a priority in political thought, and this has had profound reverberations in both architecture and landscape design."

Some interesting drawings in the MOMA archive as well as featured in this link.
METROPOLISMAG LINK
MOMA LINK

09/10 - Landscape Workshop

Everyday materials for extra-ordinary landscapes...

09/10 - Gaetano Pesce Drawings

WORDPRESS LINK
LINK TO PESCE'S WEBSITE
DESIGNBOOM INTERVIEW

09/10 - Paul Rudolph Drawings

"Aside from his built works, Paul Rudolph was also a master renderer known for his dynamic graphic presentations drawn with incredible precision much like a Victorian etching; from the building elements to the texture of the materials realistically amplified with light and shadows. His trademark presentation technique involves a black-and-white rendering of a building’s cross-section which is drawn to a large scale on a single-point perspective. Such accuracy enabled him to illustrate and investigate the realities of his buildings and their spaces, and thus allowing his designs to evolve as he further refined his rendering techniques."

LINK TO GRAIN EDIT ARTICLE
MORE INFO AT PAUL RUDOLPH FOUNDATION

09/10 - BFI online / mediatheque

FREE LOCATIONS TO WATCH FILMS
BFI FILMS ONLINE

09/10 - William Kentridge - Motion Drawings

"Kentridge is perhaps best known for his animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art."

09/10 - De Stijl at Tate Modern

4 February – 16 May 2010

"Over 350 works (many unseen in the UK before) by key artists as Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Francis Picabia, Gerrit Rietveld, Kurt Schwitters and Sophie Taeuber, the exhibition features van Doesburg's rarely-seen Counter-Composition paintings and designs for the Café Aubette in Stasbourg, furniture such as Rietveld's iconic Red-Blue chair, as well as typography, magazines, stained glass, film, music, sculpture and more."

LINK HERE