Slow Week...
[Image: A graphic by Joe McKendry from Wired's look at offshore wind platforms].Well, it's going to be a slow week on BLDGBLOG here, as I get ready to fly to NY to speak at the Architectural League on Friday, and as I transcribe a bunch of new interviews for the site. I'll try to post at least a few times – but the next 5 or 6 days look really hectic.
In the meantime, don't miss:
Pruned on how to reconfigure the Jamarat Bridge! Subtopia touring the Circus of Detention! Then look up, up, and away at MEGAblog's artificial clouds made of flying solar molecules!
Elsewhere, did you know that the world's largest nuclear shelter is actually an automotive tunnel near the southern border of Switzerland? And that it comes complete with "coloured lights, indicating whether it is night or day outside"? "Obviously." we read, "the country which produces the world's top watches would not like to lose track of time."
Learn about offshoring wind power! Consider the architectural possibilities of stopping light! Look at designs for the fantasy prisons of the future! Read this interview with Sze Tsung Leong! And then find out about giant mirrors in space!
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Q: Why do you read BLDG|BLOG?
A: Even the linky posts have shiny pictures!
Well done, Geoff. :P
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hi geoff,
thought you might like to check out this exhibition while you're in ny (if you don't know about it yet!)
http://www.artcal.net/event/view/13/4042
The Building Show, an exhibition featuring twenty-six conceptual, realistic, personal, intimate and analytical artworks that are defined by artists' personal relationships to existing structures.
Can you share any more info on your speaking engagement?
Hey Reg - Thanks! I'll check it out. You're not in NY, are you? Would love to meet up, if so.
And anon, I'll be speaking at a thing called "Mediating Architecture: A Conference on Independent Architecture Organizations at the Beginning of the 21st Century."
From the description:
The past decade has been a period of intense change in architecture. Globalization, new technologies, and an increasingly media-driven culture have combined with many other factors to dramatically alter both the way architecture is conceived and practiced among design professionals, and the way it is understood and consumed by the public. This increased attention on architecture within the public consciousness is paralleled by a spirited discussion within the profession on the role and scope of influence of the architect to give form to an increasingly chaotic world. Whether all of these changes are ultimately positive–bringing architects increased recognition and the concomitant power to effect change in the built environment–or negative–reducing architecture to extremes of surface and celebrity–is debated frequently in schools, offices and the press.
Operating as alternative sites of inquiry that are neither academic nor professional, independent architecture organizations perform an increasingly important function within the larger sphere of architecture culture. Through their lectures, exhibitions, design studies and other public programs, this relatively small group of institutions around the United States create forums in which discussion, debate and exchange can take place, thus contributing to a more informed understanding of the work and ideas driving architecture. Whether at the local level, serving their immediate communities, or on a larger scale through programs that reach a national or international audience, architecture organizations are becoming increasingly important in helping both the public and the profession assimilate an escalating flow of information.
The Architectural League of New York announces “Mediating Architecture,” a two-day conference at which representatives from independent architecture organizations around the country are invited to come together to consider the wide range of cultural and programmatic issues facing architecture organizations at the beginning of the 21st century. The goal of the conference is to stimulate discussion, suggest a range of possible directions for the future, and strengthen the existing network of architecture organizations around the United States.
I'm speaking at 3pm on Friday - but it's unclear whether I can invite people to attend. Thus the lack of hype on BLDGBLOG. But you can always stop by and ask... I'd love the audience.
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