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What happens when you run a freight train through thesis reviews? Listen!
Posted: April 24, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: architecture, brutalism Leave a comment
cheers to brutalism.
Museum of Art, Sãu Paulo, Brazil, 1968
(Lina Bo Bardi)
Posted: April 24, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: architecture, drawing, montage Leave a comment
You didn’t win, Mr. Haussmann
Whatever we do, order will always remain just a fragile achievement – the world simply doesn’t want to keep frozen in stable configurations. Always new forces will keep shaping cities.
Haussmann’s radical interventions in 19th century’s Paris are a perfect example of a new order imposed over an old one. But any new layer is just a layer which will be in turn overwritten by another one. The interplay of various layers, from the oldest to the latest, is what gives a city its depth and fascination.
Posted: April 14, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Kyle Reynolds Fellowship Research 2012 Project
Photoshop+Corel Video Studio
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this building is making me wanna go for a swim…
Posted: April 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
the stylistic secrecy of the Dutch
When Google introduced its free satellite imagery service to the world in 2005, views of our planet only previously accessible to astronauts and surveyors were suddenly available to anyone with an internet connection. Yet the vistas revealed by this technology were not universally embraced.
Governments concerned about the sudden visibility of political, economic and military locations exerted considerable influence on suppliers of this imagery to censor sites deemed vital to national security. This form of censorship continues today and techniques vary from country to country with preferred methods generally including use of cloning, blurring, pixelization, and whitening out sites of interest.
Surprisingly, one of the most vociferous of all governments to enforce this form of censorship were the Dutch, hiding hundreds of significant sites including royal palaces, fuel depots and army barracks throughout their relatively small country. The Dutch method of censorship is notable for its stylistic intervention compared to other countries; imposing bold, multi-coloured polygons over sites rather than the subtler and more standard techniques employed in other countries. The result is a landscape occasionally punctuated by sharp aesthetic contrasts between secret sites and the rural and urban environments surrounding them.
In this series, these interventions are presented alongside physical alterations made to the Dutch landscape through a vast land reclamation project that began in the 16th Century and is ongoing. A third of the Netherlands lies below sea level and the dunes, dykes, pumps, and drainage networks engineered over hundreds of years have dramatically shaped the country’s landscape, providing it with huge swathes of arable land that would otherwise be submerged.
Seen from the distant gaze of Earth’s orbiting satellites, the result is a landscape unlike any other; one in which polygons recently imposed on the landscape to protect the country from an imagined human menace bear more than a passing resemblance to a physical landscape designed to combat a very real and constant natural threat.
Posted: April 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: architecture, drawing Leave a comment
axonometric love part two.
OSWALD MATHIAS UNGERS
GERMAN EMBASSY TO THE VATICAN (PROJECT), 1965
Posted: April 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: geology, thesis Leave a comment
Derweze, also known as the door to hell, is a 70 meter wide hole in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The hole was formed in 1971 when a team of soviet geologists had their drilling rig collapse when they hit a cavern filled with natural gas. In an attempt to avoid poisonous discharge, they decided to burn it off, thinking that the gas would be depleted in only a few days. Derweze is still burning today
Posted: April 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: architecture, drawing Leave a comment
The flyover axonometric done correctly…
Dutch Pavilion, World Exposition, Osaka, Japan, 1970
(Van den Broek/Bakema)
Posted: April 10, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art Leave a comment
Memory & Imagination
::ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ И ВООБРАЖЕНИЕ::
(memory and imagination)
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