Category: new media
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Portland Photographic Record – Places
A completely different scale from the concentrated landmarks – and perhaps the antidote to the over-documented – comes from the great Portland Grid Project a photographic essay of the city using a loose framework of grid points in which photographers are unleashed to document the ‘other’ places in the community. The plan, photographers are directed…
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Portland Photographic Record – Landmarks
The ubiquitous nature of digital data offers unique opportunities to display data about places that tells us a much richer story about ourselves than the actual city. Case in point, spotted via A Daily Dose of Architecture – are these ‘Geotaggers’ World Atlas‘ maps generated from geographically tagged data of uploaded photos to popular image…
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3rd Coast Atlas
Having resided in Portland for over 13 years, I now consider myself solidly ‘West Coast’ and an adapted non-native (as opposed to invasive) resident of the Cascadia Megaregion. But 20+ years living literally near the middle and continued explorations of some midwestern cities has given me an appreciation for the third coast – a term…
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Living System Design
A great video with a lecture on ‘The Practice of Living System Design” (via Arch Daily): “William Reed AIA, a nationally recognized sustainability expert and architect at the Integrative Design Collaborative, Regenesis and Delving Deeper, spoke on developing a whole-systems design process that lifts building and community planning into full integration and co-evolution with living…
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you hold the gun!
A call from submissions for a student-run architecture journal KTISMA from the University of Oregon,with a focus on the temporal, changing, and dynamic nature of architecture, landscape and urbanism. ktismaκτίσμαktis’-mah: thing founded; thing created a publication edited by graduate students at the university of oregon’s department of architecture. a focused forum of discussion about environments;…
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Landcast by Christian Barnard
Dubbed with simple terms as ‘the voice of contemporary landscape culture’ – LANDCAST is a new series of podcasts from fellow landscape architect and blogger Christian Barnard that approaches landscape media in a brand new way. With the help of radio documentarian Adrien Sala, the podcasts aim to be an irreverent and informative way to…
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Monu #12 – Real Urbanism
Just when I thought someone couldn’t come up with a more disturbing journal cover than the aforementioned Kerb 17 – the folks at MONU found a way to top this in art for the latest issue on ‘Real Urbanism’ Contents: (browse the entire issue on YouTube) Luxury Space By Jason Lee;The World According to Mr.…
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FLOW: A Competition
Winners of the international competition „FLOW“ arrived via an email today. The european competition is: “… for students in the last two years of architecture, engineer, art, landscape, town planning, sociology and young architects were born after December 31st, 1975 in Europe.” The subject area of the competition is the City of Brussels, covering the…
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Telectroscopic Connections
A post by Varnelis mentioned a couple of interesting ideas of crossing space, both virtually and physically through various modern forms of communication. Three items come from his post: 1. Chatroulette—a site that pairs you with a random person somewhere on the Internet so that you have a webcam conversation… which to me just seems…
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Cartographic Rectification
A recent post at the Fresh Kills Park Blog showed the beauty and function of the process of map rectification in GIS, where a map and image can be combined by matching ground control points in the mapping system to points in the image. As it may be well known, I’m constantly fascinated by historic…