A series of larger-than-life sized machines designed by artists Francis Delarozière and Pierre Orefice.
Les Machines de l’Ileby ncep
Excerpt from a BBC feature in which Ed Soja discusses postmodern space in regard to the Bonaventure Hotel in LA.
Looking forward to the opening of Megastructures: Reloaded at the former State Mint in Berlin. From the press release:
Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines [...]
Kisho Kurokawa designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower in 1970 and completed its construction in 1972. It was the first structure to use prefabricated, self-contained units (capsules) that can be added or removed from a superstructure. Located in Tokyo’s Ginza district.
(Found at gluon.symmetry)
I’m really enjoying the blocky Constructivist-style stage set up in this Yellow Magic Orchestra clip from 1981. And somewhere around the 2:20 mark, this beautiful space-age table shows up for a few seconds.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
“…in the morning, at daylight, he would get up, carefully turning around, and go and put on his white bathrobe. When he went, he left it with me.”
Sophie Calle, French, born 1953. Self-Portrait (“The Bathrobe”), 1988. Gelatin silver print
Amazing art/design project by Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea & Matt Donovan.
The Robotic Chair (1984 - 2006) is a generic-looking wooden chair with the capacity to fall apart and put itself back together. With shuddering force the chair collapses to the floor then with persistence and determination proceeds to seek out its parts and upright itself. [...]
Our little publishing concern, Historical Fiction Press, is now distributing Pash Buzari’s book Rainbows in Curved Air. The book was printed in 2003 as a component of Buzari’s contribution to the 50th Venice Biennale (Utopia Station). It’s a fascinating collection of images of Buzari’s architecturally concerned work and research, with texts by Philippe Parreno, Doreen [...]
Victoria May creates beautiful, though-provoking work using textiles and everyday objects. She also happens to be one of the artists featured in By Hand. A show of her most recent work just opened at Don Soker Gallery in San Francisco. We wish we could be there to see it in person.
Collateral Damage Buried silk, thread, [...]