blue on blue

Cornfield

2010-11-08T19:52:00.006+00:00

by Ryuji Nakamura.

Reminds me of this.

Musashino Art University Library and Museum

2010-11-08T19:44:00.005+00:00

"Not an object but field of relationship."

Yet another amazing project by Sou Fujimoto.

Soon his buildings will be invisible, perceived with our senses as different environments and it's really exciting!

For more, see the latest Frame Magazine issue.

(Images in majority via here)

Atlas of Remote Islands

2010-11-03T20:19:00.004+00:00

Wish I could visit one of those islands...

inspiration

2010-10-24T19:30:00.006+01:00

Charlotte Boeyden

Phoebe Cummings

2010-10-23T15:12:00.007+01:00

Phoebe Cummings in her V&A residency projects looks at how nature and landscape have been represented historically through ceramic objects and used in construction of three-dimentional environments.

More here.

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2010-10-23T14:25:00.003+01:00

"Today the world of architecture resembles a football match with only star players who can do anything with a ball, but without goal posts and consequently without goals. However magnificent the action, it is unclear where the game is heading and what exactly we can expect of it. There are far more possibilities than ideas, and so our wealth is also our poverty."

Herman Hertzberger

(image Daniel Libeskind, Proposal for Museum of Image and Sound, Rio de Janeiro)

dubailand

2010-10-09T21:55:00.004+01:00

more here.

Venice

2010-09-19T19:19:00.011+01:00

More about the biennale to come.

venice

2010-08-20T15:25:00.001+01:00

We're off to Venice next week for the biennale.
Hopefully we will be surprised with the quality of the presenting work this time although reading Sejima's statement I have big doubts.
Nevertheless, I really look forward to going there and enjoy the event merithorically, socially and enjoy the city of course :)
Will be back soon with loads of photographs to share.
(image: Teatro del Mondo, Aldo Rossi, Venice, 1979 )

golden lane

2010-08-11T17:28:00.010+01:00

This post is delayed by 2 months, I guess.
I needed some time to feel right about showing these.
I feel an enormous nostalgia every time I walk around these Brutalist icons..

inspiration

2010-08-11T13:34:00.004+01:00

Corinne Mercadier.

Looking for inspiration for our trip to Venice.

Despite all the recent problems we’re off to the Architecture Biennale, should be good.

margaret durow

2010-08-09T16:47:00.006+01:00

More here.

waiting for better days

2010-07-30T11:24:00.003+01:00

Looks like no holiday this year...

(My bedroom in Florence, over a year ago.)

Not a Pavilion

2010-07-28T21:25:00.010+01:00

"I will not make a pavilion for you but an Electronic Poem and a vessel containing the poem; light, color image, rhythm and sound joined together in an organic synthesis."

Iannis Xenakis

What an amazing way to describe architecture!

Something, we architects, have to always remember-to come outside the building...

(via Non Projects)

realm of imagination

2010-07-16T09:15:00.005+01:00

Incredible drawings by Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin from the group of Soviet artists in the late 80s, known as Paper Architects.

(via butdoesitfloat)

polaroid love

2010-07-08T13:54:00.005+01:00

Their imperfection and sensitivity to light makes them incredibly beautiful.

Here portraits by Jody Rogac.

(via frolic)

the wedding thing

2010-07-07T14:34:00.006+01:00

Recently, as you can probably see, I’ve been struggling to find something really inspiring, something new and meaningful to share here. My silence is also dictated by a big change in my personal life-I’m getting married next year, hence the slight shift in profile of my research (or maybe not as it's all about good design) ;)
So… here’s something I came across while looking for some inspiration: a March 2002 Vogue editorial inspired with the “White Album”.
I really hope I’ll be able to find something more of that kind for THE day…

(via moodboard)

LB

2010-06-27T16:08:00.004+01:00

Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann question spatial purposes and show beauty of absurd.

Time

2010-06-08T20:48:00.003+01:00

Recently I've been thinking about time, how it changes us, our dear ones and places we know. How I'd like to be able to freeze it and preserve those very special moments, I've been experiencing recently.

(images via NYT)

Rub Kandy

2010-06-04T10:06:00.003+01:00

Amazing perspective Urban Art by Rub Kandy.

(via spaceinvading)

hmm...

2010-05-25T15:42:00.017+01:00

Postponed post and nice memory of a beautiful weekend spent with friends in the English countryside...

Stimulating Senses

2010-05-14T21:22:00.005+01:00

Valérie Kolakis, one of Program's residents.

No Drama House

2010-05-12T18:47:00.004+01:00

Artist Catherine Bastide tests our ability to adapt to “unconventional” architecture in her project “No Drama House”.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot @ Barbican

2010-04-27T21:35:00.010+01:00

As recomended by Laurie Anderson on Culture Show, here is an incredible, live soundscape created by a bunch of birds in Barbican Centre.
So cheerful and fresh, I wish I could go and see it myself!
If you have a chance, it's on by the end of May.

Couch Cushion Architecture

2010-04-25T13:30:00.005+01:00

This bBUILD's collection of Couch Cushion Architecture projects, taken from a random search on the internet made me smile.

It looks like they used childrens' creativity for their critical analysis of architecture, methods and design philosophies of living room furniture re-appropriation.

More here.