2011-10-26

Atelier Tenjinyama



Primitive building was born to prevent rain and wind. This building is made by only four pieces of walls and roof. This primitive constitution showed the possibility "a person is able to get along somehow". But in fact, in this building, it is filled with joy, presence of mind, and discovery.


Soundtrack: Boris - A Bao A Qu

Barrocals


The Pawson House


Each architect involved has taken their own distinctive design approach, but are united by a desire to preserve and augment – rather than disturb or tame – the rugged beauty and rich history of the Barrocal Estate.


via barrocal


A film by Graham Clayton-Chance:



2011-10-25

META project


© META: Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Ten international architects will come together to collaborate for the 'META' project, an initiative to create a series of pavilions to be located within communities along the coast of chile as a response to the country's devastating earthquake.

Soundtrack: Oneida - Each One, Teach One


2011-10-24

Hamra




The brief came out of the very limited budget: a house as simple as possible. Equally simple as the barn we wanted to convert to a summer dwelling, but which never showed up on the market: one open space with a large number of possible beds, cooking in the middle...


via dinelljohansson

Soundtrack: Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers






2011-10-21

Zombie Save House



In the end who will save mankind from the Zombie Apocalypse? It is our belief that artists, designers, and architects will need to weigh in heavily to provide Safe Houses that can stand an assault on civilization.


Soundtrack: Deathcrash




2011-10-19

Continuous


film&sound by Adriene Hughes


Continuity and acceleration are two mathematical concepts that relate the dancing body to space. This film unpacks the sensation of acceleration embedded in limits taken in the act of determining the continuous nature of movement.


2011-10-18

Torre Squat


Photo: Iwan Baan

“It doesn’t look good, but it has the seed of a very interesting dream of how to organize life,” says Alfredo Brillembourg, an architect and relative of the man who launched the construction.


“Compared to housing in many other neighborhoods, we have a pretty good quality of life,” says Gladys Flores, the secretary of the residents’ cooperative. “But we still need elevators.”


via nymag


Soundtrack: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues






2011-10-14

Arkrafts


© Jesús Abrego


via plataformaarquitectura
via arkrafts

Soundtrack: Ave Lira 



2011-10-13

The Power 100




Ai has promoted the notion that art’s real context is not simply ‘the market’ or ‘the institution’, but what’s happening now, around us, in the real world. 


via artreview100


Soundtrack: Unsane - Against the Grain



2011-10-07

Skulpturenpark


Sou Fujimoto’s first architectural structure in Europe.

From inside the structure, new sight lines open up and views of the park from its windows appear like framed landscapes, while, on the other hand, the visitor is lured into its enclosure...


Soundtrack: World´s End Girlfriend - Osoi Hito



2011-10-06

Junya Ishigami

石上純也―建築のあたらしい大きさ 
Changing scales means changing the atmosphere - scale and proportion can make a space...

Lecture in Strelka via vimeo

Soundtrack: Esmerine - Why She Swallows Bullets and Stones


silver-rocket

2011-10-05

AFFR


THINK BIG, ACT SMALL
This year during the festival an online festival is being organised comprising films that were screened at past AFFR festivals. The site is a depository for a mass of cinematic material: full-length films from preceding years, trailers and accounts of AFFR interviews are all available

affr.nl

Soundtrack: Envy - Worn Heels and the Hands We Hold


www.silver-rocket.org

2011-10-04

Bata-ville


www.somewhere.org.uk

A strange, defiantly unclassifiable work from UK artists Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope - combining elements of travelogue, documentary and performance piece...