Unseen Archizoom

I was trolling around the library, and flipping through some old issue of something, I saw these Archizoom drawings that I'd never seen in any of the "tribute" re-publications anywhere. 

A Rainbow bridge?

a duelling amphitheater?

a lighting grave room?

a huge marble conference table, surprise included?

ok, a garden room

holidays in style

a chair room where you go to hang yourself? 

wait, it's a screen

Can Architecture save you from Facebook fatigue?

Open publication - Free publishing - More angelidakis

Cognitive Architecture. From Biopolitics to Noopolitics. Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information

Just got my hands on a copy of the Cognitive Architecture mega-reader, edited by Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich, 010 Publishers. 


With contributions from Andreas Angelidakis, Lisa Blackman, Ina Blom, Felicity Callard, Suparna Choudry, Jordan Crandall, Elie During, Keller Easterling, Lukas Ebensperger, Boris Groys, Janet Harbord, Deborah Hauptmann, Patrik Healy, Maurizio Lazzarato, Daniel Marguilles, Markus Miessen, Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Neidich, John Protevi, Steven Quartz, Andreij Radman, Philippe Rahm, John Rajchman, Patricia Reed, Gabriel Rockhill, J.A. Scott Kelso, Terrence Sejnowski, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Jan Slaby, Paolo Virno, Frans Vogellar, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Bruce Wexler, Charles T. Wolfe.

My contribution is a text based on the talk I gave at TU Delft, titled "Can Architecture Save you from Facebook Fatigue?"

Chapters included are : 

OFFSCREEN, 

TRIPLESCREEN, 

SCREEN DISORDER, 

SCREEN BUILDINGS

and

CITIZENS OF THE SCREEN

Teleport Diner meets World of World of Warcraft

Suns and Thoughts (for DLD11)

and here's a selection from Slideshow #2

Superstudio

Hans Holein

Laurids Ortner

unknown

unknown

Andrea Branzi

Phillipe Rahm

Gianni Pettena

Peter Cook

unknown

Guy Rottier

me

Clouds and Moons and Buildings (for DLD2011)

Here's a few of the slides from "Clouds and Moons and Buildings", one of the two slideshows I put together for DLD11 (Arts), as curated by Johannes Fricke Waldhausen and Hans Urlich Obrist

Buckie Fuller

Ugo la Pietra

Friedrich St Florian

Yves Klein

Piranesi

Diller Scofidio +Renfro

Guy Rottier + Yona Friedman

Haus-Rucker-Co.

yours truly

Speedism

more Haus-Rucker-Co

Nigel Coates

Zund Up (which is actually Hans Hollein)

and Guy Rottier of course. And if anybody knows where to find better scans of Rottier, and especially the Architecture d'occasion that I put in my 2008 slideshow, do let me know

Stacks of beach boulders in the snow

 Reading through issue zero of San Rocco magazine, with the White U house on the cover, 

a building I never understood until I knew it was a basically a mourning cave for Toyo Ito's sister

(at OMMU)

 then serendipitously bumping into an article on Hans Hollein's 3 travel agencies, (meanwhile I've been working on a tourism-related project)

 and an interesting reading of Artiga's Balneario in Jau

 moving through the stack to Peter Friendl's Secret Modernity, and finally the english language catalogue of Drifts and Derivations

and really learning more about the Vaiparaiso School of Architecture and stacks of beach boulders in the snow.

Drop City Serendipity

Just the other day I was browsing a1968 copy of Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

and I happened on a post on Drop City,

the Colorado Geodesic Folk Phychedelia Hippe Commune
which I have written about in the past,

the article had some cute drawings, so I decided to re-post

Then a few days later an email arrives from Joan Grossman, who together with Tom mcCourt are shooting a documebtary on Drop City, and have started a KICKSTARTER page to collect funds, and could I please mention something on my site? Well obvioulsy I would!

People lets get together

Stolen Shoe House

Angelo found this Dreamy Shoe House in Belle's Daddy's photostream, 

and since there was no way of sharing, I stole it.