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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Universita del Qatar: In the Name of Islam
Browsing through old Domus, I stumbled upon this 80s desert hallucination, standard Islamic shopping mall, but somehow managing to look cute...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Hans Hollein: Spray, Smell and Build
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Puttin on the Ritz x3
(be sure to wait for the end when Fred goes into mirrors)
I really never knew he looked so scary
Rufus Rufus
(there's also a weird one from Michael Jackson, but you can find that on the yootoobes)
Monday, November 17, 2008
East Coast Europe
Check out East Coast Europe, Markus Miessens' new book/study on all the possible things Europe can (and can't) be.
With contributions by Can Altay, Marina Abramovic, Paddy Ashdown, Zdenka Badovinac, Katherine Carl, Eda Cufer, Reinier de Graaf, Mladen Dolar, Lisa Farjam, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Carin Kuoni, Zak Kyes, Jacques Le Goff, Aaron Levy, Genevieve Maitland Hudson with Cyril Blanc, Markus Miessen, Viktor Misiano, Miran Mohar, Shamim Momin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Orchard, Dan Perjovschi, Marjetica Potrc, Nebojsa Seric Shoba, Michael Shamiyeh, Erzen Shkololli, Taryn Simon, Nedko Solakov, Alenka Suhadolnik, Milica Tomic, Kazys Varnelis, Felix Vogel, Borut Vogelnik, Jordan Wolfson, and Sislej Xhafa, plus a dictionary of Europe where I contributed a single word (!) also featuring Kimberly Bradley, Carson Chan, Hans Urlich Obrist, Juergen Mayer H, Lina Stergiou, and many more that I don't remember right now (these are already too many names for a Monday morning)
With contributions by Can Altay, Marina Abramovic, Paddy Ashdown, Zdenka Badovinac, Katherine Carl, Eda Cufer, Reinier de Graaf, Mladen Dolar, Lisa Farjam, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Carin Kuoni, Zak Kyes, Jacques Le Goff, Aaron Levy, Genevieve Maitland Hudson with Cyril Blanc, Markus Miessen, Viktor Misiano, Miran Mohar, Shamim Momin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Orchard, Dan Perjovschi, Marjetica Potrc, Nebojsa Seric Shoba, Michael Shamiyeh, Erzen Shkololli, Taryn Simon, Nedko Solakov, Alenka Suhadolnik, Milica Tomic, Kazys Varnelis, Felix Vogel, Borut Vogelnik, Jordan Wolfson, and Sislej Xhafa, plus a dictionary of Europe where I contributed a single word (!) also featuring Kimberly Bradley, Carson Chan, Hans Urlich Obrist, Juergen Mayer H, Lina Stergiou, and many more that I don't remember right now (these are already too many names for a Monday morning)
Friday, November 14, 2008
Everyday Utopia
Here's some pics from the Everyday Utopia exhibition that lovely Marina Fokidis curated, just opened at Think21 in Brussels, featuring Angelo Plessas, Miltos Manetas and yours truly. Seems like I took all the photos in a rush between Champaign and Vodka and more, but better pics are coming soo
Plessas' Future is Fake Neon and MeLookingAtYou walldrawing
classic Manetas painting
more Plessas
I showed paper models with notes, arranged in a Sandbox configuration
Dolmen House
Soft Ruin
Idea and Menir
Charles can explain everything...
Plessas' Future is Fake Neon and MeLookingAtYou walldrawing
classic Manetas painting
more Plessas
I showed paper models with notes, arranged in a Sandbox configuration
Dolmen House
Soft Ruin
Idea and Menir
Charles can explain everything...
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Monday, November 03, 2008
TRANS Thinking the city, Delft Sschool of Design
Just back from the Delft School of Design where Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich put together and amazing colloquium on TRANS Thinking the city, examining ways that both the brain and the city works. The Architecture faculty building famously burned down this past May, and is currently hosting a major effort in reorganizing itself.