la rentré d’architecture à paris. regarde l’agenda pour voir des conférences cette automne Zvi Hecker Anupama Kundoo Bernard Tschumi Oscar Tuazon Carolina Maniaque Antonio Pizza Dominique Perrault Phillippe Bonnecarrere Jac Fol Riyaz Tayyibji Jure Kotnik Fréderéci Bonnet the calendar of conferences and debates on architecture in Paris this fall —- Si vous souhaitez que votreRead More
by Shasha Fuyez la place Saint Marc et ses hordes de touristes en short, se bousculant dans les ruelles. Venise est bradée. Un ballet de vaporetto transportant autant d’appareils photos que de personnes, congestionne les voies d’eau. La ville qui fut la Sérénissime n’est plus que l’ombre d’elle même. 60000 vénitiens pour trois ou quatreRead More
by M.E et C.A Photographies : Emmanuel Lafay Pourquoi habiter le centre ville de Tunis ? La volonté de réinvestir le centre ville de Tunis n’est pas uniquement animée par la nostalgie des vieilles pierres et des architectes fantaisistes de l’époque. Elle est en réalité une réponse à la décrépitude d’un quartier et à laRead More
Nom de blog : Beyond Entropy Qui : Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Architectural Association Mots-Clefs : energy, architecture, research Quoi : The blog is part of an Architectural Association collaborative initiative that will present its work at the 2010 Biennale di Venezia. The project reframes energy so that it is no longer considered as only a technical criteriaRead More
Where : Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona When : through November 1, 2010 What : With 10 installations at the Fundacio Joan Miro and two others at the Centre Cultural de Caixa Girona, this is the largest exhibit of the artist’s work in Spain. The oneiric poetry of Rist’s installations transforms seeing into dreaming. Beyond theirRead More
by Marion Emery I have often been confronted with zones that I felt were different; every pedestrian has this strange sensation walking around the Prison de la Santé in central Paris. It is surprising to notice the remarkable influence of a building that is so closed, so off. As if the street would like toRead More
Nom de blog : Space Symmetry Structure///journeys in the Apeiron Qui : Daniel Piker Mots-Clefs : surfaces, geometry, mathematics, physics Quoi : Piker brings an acutely mathematical understanding to topological investigations and uses his blog as a means to disseminate research on both new digital tools for analysis and historical precedents. Recent posts look at how physicalRead More
by Dr. Ruzica Bozovic-Stemenovic Abstract An intrinsic characteristic of cities is their ability to generate stress, motivating urbanites to regularly seek-out non-city escapes. AS an island city-state, Singapore is a highly urbanized entity with no indigenous extra-urban non-city areas. Thus, it becomes an interesting urban laboratory in which new, idealistic and phantasmagoric creations of non-cities emerge inRead More
by Juliette Charon I have imagined a future catastrophe in Paris: the rise of water level. Little by little, the weather will change, pouring rain beating down on Europe, glaciers melting quicker and quicker, the water starting to rise. The Seine will overflow. Paris and its suburbs are under water. I decided to focus onRead More
Where : Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris When : 5 June – 24 July 2010 What : As part of the group show Green Power the artists Dorothea Nold and Thomas Eschapasse contribute installations that use nature as medium. They assert the contemporary transformation of nature from a still-other, non-urban condition, outside of human intervention into an ecological apparatusRead More
September 6, 2010