Category: art
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Mimic Nature
Often the use of natural forms is implemented for aesthetic or biophilic reasons, and the resultant forms tend to span the gamut from stunning to awful. We’ve shown examples of abstracted trees here and here – and the use of natural forms often peeks into building both as a metaphor for ecological function as well…
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Urban Ag: The Buzz
If it’s not landscaping on buildings or ecologically planning communities around the globe, it must be the buzz-concept of Urban Agriculture – and it’s had a lot of press lately. A lot of press. And deservedly so – as the new face(s) of agriculture seem to be collecting into teeming masses with some traction towards…
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Veg.itecture #17
There seems to be a significant backlog of Vegetated Architecture examples I will catch up on in the upcoming week. For this version, we will focus on a typology that we featured previously, some abstracted and representational vegetation forms in buildings and artwork. These span incorporation into building structure and form – as well as…
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Representing: Greening Buildings
The methods of representing vegetation on buildings is of vital importance to the acceptance and further expansion of the concept. I’d dare posit that it’s also a strategy to create excitement as well as enough realism where this doesn’t lead to disappointment when the project is build. In this vein, some representation of projects –…
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Veg.itecture: Curly + Folded
Ok, I promise I am running out of formalistic themes for Vegetated Architecture, really soon. For now, a couple of posts with an exposition on shape and form around some recent projects. Steven Holl’s design for a get’s a nod for interesting vegetated plane on structure, as well as the most hyperbolic name ‘Sliced Porosity…
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Tree/House
There’s a few posts out showing off a variety of actual treehouses, but what fun is that. I thought a sampling of projects of the theme would be much more informative. Just for kicks, here’s my favorite, a more refined method for the discerning tree-sitter, from Web Urbanist: :: image via Web Urbanist For spotting…
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Color Theory
These images on MoCo Loco’s Art MoCo featuring the work of artist Denny McCoy’s simple yet somehow deep paintings of colored bands, jogged my memory of a couple of recent color-related resources that floated by recently. Part photoshop swatch, part Timbuk2 messenger bag – it’s not the composition, but the complement of shades and tones…
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New Suburban Landscape
There are some things that make me pine away for being in close proximity to Minneapolis. One is some really good friends that I went to school with that reside there. The other is the Walker Art Center, which seems to address landscape much more often than is done here in Portland. Maybe they have…
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Elements: Water
Water. How do you talk about it without sounding like a commercial for some sort of Brita water filter? Projects abound that deal with stormwater and water as resources – as we have evolved outside the terms of ‘waste’ and looked at it as a viable resource. :: An Exercise in Futility (by rebekka) –…
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Flux Paroxysm: A Found Poem
Jumping the shark a bit, but here’s the first part of the found poem from the SoWa endeavors with David Oates, et. al. – enjoy!: II. Flux Paroxysmcomposers: Jason King and Claire Nail Giants movepoliticoshuddled together,a tribein KKK regaliarough pioneers, hard menact out Ahab after vengeanceunhinged by luckdirty quarrel, barks of laughterbones will crackrips of…