Monday, 31 December 2007

UNACCOMMODATED


Static is the web resource of the London Consortium, a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Tate.

Aiming to initiate interdisciplinary intellectual debate about paradoxes of contemporary culture, Static presents contributions from an international team of academics, artists and cultural practitioners.
LONDON CONSORTIUM
HERE IS THE PDF WHICH MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

Saturday, 29 December 2007

TOO MUCH INFO?


The basic concept of complexity is that all things tend to organize themselves into patterns, e.g., ant colonies, immune systems, and human cultures; further, they go through cycles of growth, mass extinction, regeneration, and evolution.
here's the link =

MACRO-THE HUMAN FACTOR



cor blimey....
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MACRO-FRAMEWORKS



these are for real!
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MACRO - KIT OF PARTS?


found this and thought it might be useful for a couple of you...
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007

CARPET?


This astonishing relief map carpet, made from foam bars of different heights and colours, is a product of the Dutch design firm Studio Laurens van Wieringen. LINK TO CARPET

Tuesday, 11 December 2007

DESERT ARCHEOLOGIES


Situated in the Middle-East or in ancient Mesopotamia, these architectures have always appeared to me as hieratic and timeless locations open to fiction and human science in which geography and history might be presented as utopias. THIERRY URBAIN... take a look at the archeologies...
Desert Archeologies

Sunday, 2 December 2007