Category: representation
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Eco-Art Dump
In a combination of post overload and just good stuff, I am faced with a dilemma. Dump a bunch of stored up links in mass posting summaries or just plain dump them for good – missing an opportunity to collect some great material in the blog. So in a compromise fitting for L+U, I will…
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Chilean Facades: Consorcio + Concepción
A stunning new example of VIA (i think?) via Urban Greenery presents the The Consorcio Building in Santiago – with an amazing green wall system on significant portions of the facade – which recalls Ken Yeang’s Bioclimatic structures in this tropical climate. :: images via Urban Greenery Located in Santiago, Chile – the green walls…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA la Revolution
As promised, the counterpoint to the recent posts related to Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) are the more conceptual illustrative examples in the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) posts – which offer a more sparsely informative overview of the visions of vegetated architecture and the many graphic forms that it takes. The dichotomy between vision and…
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Flower: Gaming Urban Flight
A link from the ASLA blog The Dirt offered word of a landscape-oriented game from Playstation 3 entitled ‘Flower’. The gist: “Sony will soon release a new game “Flower,” which explores the path of an urban flower that seeks to escape to the countryside. Sony’s designer says the game is an interactive poem, which uses…
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Reading List: Drosscape
Early in the life of this (still youthful) blog, I had a short throwaway post about Modes of Representation – and echoed a term I had heard regarding ‘visual masturbation’ – the analogue of the pointless drivel associated with verbal masturbation. While there are still countless examples of both in the design and planning spheres…
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Stan Allen at the AALU
Stan Allen: Before and After Landscape Urbanism01/27/09 – Architectural Association Lecture :: Taipai Waterfront – images via Stan Allen View the lecture via live streaming available from 5.45pm at http://stream.aaschool.ac.uk/The emergence of landscape urbanism, along with the development of the protocols of digital design, must be counted one of the most significant developments in the…
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Questioning EcoMetropolitanism
Perhaps I missed the memo regarding a new found integration of ‘wildness’ into our cities as the 2009 topic to watch. Maybe it started with Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estates – jumping to Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and the idea of City Zoo, shifting to the more expansive concept from _urb about Post Humanist Rewilded Eco Ethical…
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Welcome to Portlandia
Is Portland European, or is Europe Portlandian? Hmmmm….
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Like Looking in a Mirror
A new blog (as of December ’08) was one of those surreal moments where you start looking through the collected posts and realize that like seeing a reflection of where your personal interests lie. Urban Greenery is aptly and simply named, and offers snapshots of… you guessed it – urban greenery. A lot of the…
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Seiwooo = Graphic Bliss
An email from Mannisi Alban alerted me to some of the fine graphic work that is present on the Seiwooo site – a portfolio of work spanning the past ten years. It’s rare to find a wide range of different graphic techniques in one spot, so these are definitely worthy of a look – if…