Models by Naomi Kasahara

Naomi Kasahara is a set designer based in Long Beach, California.  Her excellent models, especially when photographed well as they are above, show materiality, equipment, structure, lights, and people (including actors and audience).

new issue of a+t Reclaim: Domestic Actions

The new issue  of a+t Reclaim, "Domestic Actions", contains 54 actions that strip and boil down the home to its most basic roots. They have lightened the load, made up for previous mistakes and taken away the aesthetic preconceptions that until now had put strain on these type of interventions.

Reclaim - Domestic Actions classifies these actions into three Re- processes: Reduce, Retrieve and Remove. The recent additions refer to refusal and relinquishment options about the current living environment. After having undergone a series of material, formal, technical and economical adjustments, the role of inhabiting a space is viewed with a fresh perspective. Lastly, the issue adds a fourth process: Simulate, a valuable partner for times of crisis.

The volume forms part of the RECLAIM series.

You can read a sample here and see more here.

​Matina Kousidi Lecture on March 11th at 1PM

"Architecture sur Mesure. Habitat | Abito"

Matina attained her Ph.D. in Architecture (2013) from Sapienza University of Rome, after a one year research stay at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Currently, she is developing her individual research on the role of dress and textiles in early modern architecture, jointly at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Dessau Institute of Architecture, and the Bauhaus archives. Matina is a registered architect, peeking into the world of dress through the act of building.

The lecture will take place in the Marylebone building, room to be announced.

Sections by Antoine Desgodetz (drawn in 1682)

Antoine Desgodetz studied under François Blondel at the Academy of Architecture in Paris between 1672 and 1674, and was then dispatched to Rome by Louis XIV’s minister, Colbert, in order to study ancient buildings. The result was a book, Ancient Edifices of Rome, dedicated to Colbert and published at the king’s expense. Composed of accurate drawings of Rome’s main ancient buildings (as well as the amphitheater in Verona) accompanied by commentaries, the goal of the book was to provide the first precise description of ancient Roman architecture, thereby correcting errors committed by the likes of Andrea Palladio, Sebastiano Serlio, and Antonio Labacco. It remained an authoritative reference work on ancient architecture until the end of the 18th century.

'Material Imagination' Lecture by Dean David Dernie March 12th 6PM

"As we move towards a digital age of building, where we design, model, procure and even build digitally, architecture is inevitably propelled into a virtual realm. At the same time, we all know that the material conditions of our environment still matter and this lecture will argue that the architecture is first and foremost a physical thing: an architect’s palette comprises of material forms and light. In foregrounding shape and surface, design software promotes a technical (or otherwise fragmentary) knowledge of material."

When: Wednesday 12 March at 6pm
Where: Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW


Find out more and book your place

+ FARM Summer Design Workshops in the US

JUNE STUDIO: PERFORMANCE PAVILION

Perrysburg, New York

The project for this year’s week-long intensive design, fabrication, and construction studio is a lightweight, self-supporting Performance Pavilion. +FARM brings together a wide range of professionals to work directly with the participants during the studio. Ten Participants will progress from introductory to more advanced working sessions with technical content to address issues of: materiality, interiority, component types, and self-supporting architecture. Dates: June 7-14th, for more information please visit: +FARM Perrysburg Studio 

AUGUST STUDIO: TACTICAL TECTONICS

Silo City + Rigidized Metals Corporation: Buffalo, New York

+FARM is excited to announce our 2014 August Studio at Silo City: Buffalo, NY working directly with Rigidized Metals Corporation and the Rigidized Fab-Team to design, fabricate, and construct a multi-level Culture Shelter within an existing grain silo. Ten applicants selected from an open call will work directly with professional craftsmen, fabricators, architects, digital specialists, educators, and Rigidized Metals Fab-Team exposing the participants to emerging design, computation, fabrication, material and construction practices in the field of architecture. Dates: August 6-16th, for more information please visit: +FARM Silo City Studio

Interested in applying to one or both summer studios visit: www.plusfarm.org

Potential Architecture Symposium - 4th April 2014, University of Westminster

Potential Architecture: Symposium
Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment
Friday, 4 April 2014 from 14:30 to 20:00 (BST)

Featuring Alexander Brodsky of Brodsky and Utkin and Sean Griffiths of FAT (and University of Westminster). 

The event held at the Marylebone campus is free but you must register to attend here.

James Turrell: Recent Works at Pace Gallery

James Turrell: Recent Works
Feb 07, 2014 – Apr 05, 2014


The exhibition will consist of two Tall Glass works and two Wide Glass works in the ground floor and upstairs galleries.

6 Burlington Gardens
London W1S 3ET
Tel: +44 (0)20 3206 7600
Tue - Sat 10 to 6
Monday by appointment

Peter Cook + Gavin Robotham / CRAB Studio on design of the Abedian School of Architecture

Bartlett School of Architecture
Lecture

Peter Cook + Gavin Robotham / CRAB Studio
Hear the undercover story behind CRAB Studio's new building, the Abedian School of Architecture for Bond University


18:30 - 20:00 28 February 2014

Location: Royal Ear Hospital, Ground Floor, Capper Street, London, WC1E 6AP
All welcome / first come, first seated

Interview with Acoustical engineer Trevor Cox

Trevor Cox is the author of The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World. He has developed new ways of improving the sound in theaters and recording studios, and he has explored many unusual interiors to examine their acoustic qualities.

Hear an interview with Cox here.

klemens torggler’s 'evolution' door

"developed without the use of tracks, austrian artist klemens torggler has created ‘evolution door,’ a rotating geometric flip-panel door system that opens up with momentum. the clever structure is just one of the various concepts by torggler. he explains that ‘the special construction makes it possible to move the door sideways without the use of tracks. this technical trick opens up new applications for the door.’"

from designboom

Alvar Aalto: Technology and Nature

Clay Thompson forwarded this link to a documentary on Alvar Aalto.

Watch it on Ubu Web.