Carlo Scarpa Documentary

Carlo Scarpa (June 2, 1906 – November 28, 1978), was an Italian architect.

Scarpa refused to sit the pro forma professional exam administrated by the Italian Government after World War II. As a consequence, he was not permitted to practice architecture without associating with an architect. Hence, those who worked with him, his clients, associates, craftspersons, called him "Professor", rather than "architect".

His architecture is deeply sensitive to the changes of time, from seasons to history, rooted in a sensuous material imagination.

'Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined' at the Royal Academy

Concept image of environment by Li Xiaodong (detail), commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. © Li Xiaodong.

25 January — 6 April 2014
In the Main Galleries

Some of the most creative architectural minds from around the world are coming to the RA – and together they will give you an unforgettable experience. Read more

the Royal Academy is located at: Burlington House, Piccadilly London W1J 0BD

Section Detail; Old Folk’s Home, Morecambe by David Hart

from AR tumblr

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Alvar Aalto Viipuri Library Lecture Hall

Alvar Aalto's section of the lecture hall in the Viipuri Library which worked out the trajectory of  sound.

more here.

The Left-Over-Space House by Cox Rayner Architects

"This narrow private house demonstrates what can be achieved on the myriad of ‘left-over’ spaces in inner cities, such as disused easements or parking lots. In this case, a 3 metre wide tiny caretaker’s cottage, adjoining a heritage hall has been recycled and linearly extended into a family house for parents and two children."

from DETAIL.

sophia chang piques suspense through cavernous installation

"...the piece consists of softened fabric geometries that blur the boundaries between its inside and outside. upon entering, both occupant and environment are estranged, creating greater awareness of one’s self, relation to others and surroundings. the expansive, curving walls form an immersive cave-like interior, framing both people and their context that piques the experience of interior and exterior, wall and room – both hiding and revealing places to be explored."

image © anita kan

"the installation is constructed from large pieces of lycra fabric that is suspended between rectangular frames. snatched glimpses of the original context are captured through breaks in the fabric, pulling them into the suspended space, while visitors occupy both sides of the frame, creating a playful interaction between its two sides. the re-captured everyday moments, a glimpse of brick, a stair, or out to the street appear distant and other. conceived as multiple layers of poché, which commonly refers to the space within walls, here it receives a more ambiguous reinterpretation: what could be understood as a wall or space from one vantage point, becomes an inhabitable room from another."

from designboom.

'Skinned' by KNOL Ontwerp features latex casts of derelict buildings

Shrouds of latex cast from derelict buildings hang in this installation by Amsterdam design studio KNOL Ontwerp, forming ghostly recreations of spaces.

from dezeen.

Paul Klee - Making Visible at Tate Modern 16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014

Paul Klee is a giant of twentieth-century art and one of the great creative innovators of the time. The heart of the exhibition will focus on the decade Klee spent teaching and working at the Bauhaus, the hotbed of modernist design.

Making Visible

Tate Modern: Exhibition

16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014

Adult £16.50 (without donation £15.00)

Concession £14.50 (without donation £13.10)

Daniel Silver: 'Dig' 12 September - 3 November 2013

"From a deep hole in a derelict site in central London, yards from the traffic of the Tottenham Court Road, evidence of an apparently ancient and peculiar civilisation has emerged: gods and philosophers, fertility goddesses with 12 breasts, smashed plaster torsos and a giant bearded head with its features almost washed away evidently by millennia of rain or sea water.On the upper level scores of pieces lie cleaned and sorted. Down below all is dank and dripping, and life-sized figures and heads on concrete plinths stand in pools of mud and water. All were made by the sculptor Daniel Silver, for Dig, an installation commissioned by Artangel..." from the Gaurdian

Daniel Silver: Dig
The Odeon Site
24 Grafton Way (off Tottenham Court Road)
London WC1E 6DB

12 September - 3 November 2013

11am - 6 pm, Tuesday - Sunday
Admission: free

+FARM 2014: Winter Studio at the Five Sisters Farm, NY, USA

Open Call: the Sweat Lodge in the Snow

The project for this 5 day intensive design, fabricate, and construction workshop is to build a Sweat Lodge for a weary farmer. The fabrication studio will focus, and participants will learn, digital practices that enhance work flow methods between design, metal fabrication, and installation by using the latest software + techniques.

Participants will warm up with a charrette to produce the design, then will quickly transition to digital techniques geared toward fabrication. Six applicants selected from an international open call will be invited to work with a metal fabrication shop including practicing professionals on site, developing practical, technological, and construction skills. Professional training will be provided in using a plasma cutter, press break, sheer, and basic welding techniques.

Applications Due Friday November 29th

For more information please visit: www.plusfarm.org

'Thinking With the Body' at the Wellcome Collection. Until October 27th.

Wayne McGregor is well known for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. In 2000, he and his company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance embarked on a series of projects investigating aspects of creativity in dance with researchers from other fields such as cognitive and social science.

This exhibition, staged during the run-up to the first performances of his new work for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, 'Atomos' at Sadler's Wells, offers a glimpse into this interdisciplinary research process and the impact it has in the rehearsal studio. Find out more about the process of choreography and how mind, body and movement interact in each of us.

From Saturday 28 September to Sunday 13 October there will be opportunities to meet dancers who have experience of working with the ideas discussed in the exhibition. The dancers will offer a unique insight into and practical demonstration of physical thinking techniques. Sessions will run on Thursdays 18.00-21.00, Saturdays and Sundays 14.00-17.00.

Admission to Wellcome Collection is free

Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

Richard Serra: 'Drawings for the Courtald' 19 September 2013 – 12 January 2014

Richard Serra: Drawings for The Courtauld presents twelve of Serra’s most recent drawings, created especially for this installation at The Courtauld Gallery.

Rising to prominence on the New York art scene more than forty years ago, Serra is now celebrated internationally, notably for his groundbreaking sculptures and for his radical approach to drawing.

Serra’s Drawings for The Courtauld are extraordinarily powerful works. Produced using dense black litho crayon on transparent plastic sheets, their forms only just seem to cohere, as if still in the process of creation. Serra’s innovative technique pushes the boundaries of drawing in new directions.

This is an opportunity to see radical new drawings by one of the most important and revered

artists working today.

at The Courtauld Institute of Art 
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN, UK