September 2, 2008 – 2:57 pm
Airborne Environments:
Aircraft as micro-world? Newson’s “design language” for the airplane, we read, “is defined less by what the passengers see than by how they feel.”
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/airborne-environments.html
Urban Play
Exhibition installed throughout Amsterdam and Utrecht.
droog design and scott burnham have assembled groups of innovative designers and architects from around the world to create thirteen urban [...]
Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm = Architectural Pathway to Artificial Life
“It’s NASA meets Archigram meets Manuel de Landa meets Theo Jansen – a walking city gone off-world, communicating via secure satellite to earthbound observers back home”
Archigram drawings coming to life, sign me up.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/architectural-pathway-to-artificial.html
Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City
A thoughtful essay on the implications of massive infrastructure [...]
Chinese Tunnels
…down in the foundations of your city is a mysterious network of rooms, excavated by another race, through which unidentified strangers move at night, threatening to abduct you. It’s urban historical anthropology by way of Jean Cocteau – or Sigmund Freud.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/mysterious-chinese-tunnels.html
Aesthetics and Ethics, China Edition
As architects, designers and in our various professions, what is [...]
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