east coast Architecture review http://ecoastarchreview.com “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” – Mies van der Rohe Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:09:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 east coast Architecture reviewhttp://ecoastarchreview.com/wp-content/themes/pyrmont-v2/images/ecAr_breather.jpghttp://ecoastarchreview.com9696east coast Architecture review - http://ecoastarchreview.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ecoastarchreview/wphttp://feedburner.google.com VotW 09: Rob Carter’s Metropolis http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ecoastarchreview/wp/~3/idIL1jIlMa4/ http://ecoastarchreview.com/2010/03/02/votw-09-rob-carters-metropolis/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:04:28 +0000 Bradley http://ecoastarchreview.com/?p=2740


A special thanks to Brand Avenue for turning us on to this unique video of the chronological transformation of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. And here is a description of the work by the artist Rob Carter from his website:

Rob Carter’s work uses stop-motion animation, time-lapse video and large format photographs to spotlight iconic and political structures in our urban environment, especially sports stadia, skyscrapers, churches, and other historical landmarks. Cut photographic images and living plants are used to make often humorous retellings of history – morphing and recontextualizing architecture and urban development. Recent work draws parallels between the inspiration and power of the natural world, and human attempts to understand, manipulate and control it in the past, present and future.

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Rob Cater Bio

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Here is a description of the lecture given by Prince-Ramus from the TED website:

Joshua Prince-Ramus believes that if architects re-engineer their design process, the results can be spectacular. Speaking at TEDxSMU, Dallas, he walks us through his fantastic re-creation of the local Wyly Theater as a giant “theatrical machine” that reconfigures itself at the touch of a button..

Joshua Prince-Ramus Wiki
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Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Washington, USA – OMA
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New Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany – Delugan Meissl
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The Cooper Union, New York City, NY – Morphosis Architects
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Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan – Taipei 101
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Today we feature a video of Shigeru Ban talking about his work in his own words.  Ban is the architect of such works as the Nomadic Museum, Artek Pavilion, Centre Pompidou Metz and the Aspen Art Museum among others.  As Ban describes in the video, he has long been a proponent of using materials or more specifically, recycled mass produced items in unconventional ways  in his works.  The wikipedia entry for Ban describes his polemics in this way:

For Ban, one of the most important themes in his work is the “invisible structure”. That is, he doesn’t overtly express his structural elements, but rather chooses to incorporate it into the design. Ban is not interested in the ‘newest’ materials and techniques, but rather the expression of the concept behind his building. The materials he chooses to use are deliberately chosen for how they aid the building to do so.

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Regent Street, London, UK – Regent Street
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CGAC, Santiago De Compostela, Spain – Alvaro Siza Vieira
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In case you were not aware a fairly new website has emerged on the web featuring video reporting of many architectural and design projects throughout Europe. In their own words:

Studio Banana TV is an on-line platform dedicated to the promotion of multidisciplinary creativity in an audiovisual format. Studio Banana TV broadcasts its own video productions which are produced upon demand and which range from interviews to notorious artists, designers, architects, musicians etc. to documentaries on exhibitions, projects and studios. Through its thematic channels it also features a rich selection of videos edited by specialists in each field.

In this weeks video Studio Banana TV features the Canal Theater Building by Juan Navarro Baldeweg in Madrid, Spain.  Here is an excerpt from their website describing the video itself:

Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Santander, 1939) is a Spanish architect, painter and sculptor. Navarro Baldeweg has provided a novel look at the constructive practices, in which the work is understood as the subject of an existing physical context activation. He has been guest lecturer at many international universities and is a professor in the Department of Architectural Design of ETSAM. He is author, among other works, of the National Museum of Altamira, the Canal Theatres in Madrid, the National Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos, the Salamanca Congress Centre, the Institute of Archeology and Architecture Awareness in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, or the extension to the School of Music at Princeton University.Special thanks to the Canal Theatre and to Juan Navarro Baldeweg Architects.

Interview and translation by Studio Banana TV

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