Featured in The Neuro Salon. Curated by Barbara Maria Stafford.
The Stubbins Gallery / College of Architecture / April 11 – 27 2012
A series of viewing machines, composed of a lens and screen enclosing a dark chamber, demonstrate the physical geometries of vision. //
a serrated monument from afar… //
a conversation with Lisa Iwamoto… //
A designer, as defined by Webster’s Dictionary is “one who creates and often executes plans for a project or structure”. This broad definition encompasses two different practices: that of Architecture and building design, and that of the Industrial, or, product designer. Both are designers, and both design very different things. //
Ruth Dusseault’s The Innermost Room exhibition opens on Friday, April 20. The exhibition contains her work as well as other projects dealing with the catastrophic tornado that hit Joplin in May 2011. The exhibition takes place at the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum (the Paper Science Institute off 10th Street). //
We present Mike Vinson, the 2012 Georgia Tech IDSA Student Merit Award Finalist. //
Our winner, Bryce Truitt.
Happy birthday Mies!
At the rebuilt Barcelona Pavilion? //
The second years. A perfectly banal and objective statement, charged and aggravated by class warfare. There exists within the College of Architecture a fundamental disjoint between the second years and the third and fourth years. Perhaps the parametrically driven computational design to the extreme the second years have been learning has given them the scripter’s ego. A notion of superiority and the end all of architecture. Perhaps it is the critical pessimism of fourth years, disillusioned by years of work, downtrodden by the industry, facing a grim reality that makes them fundamentally critical of all things lower class.
What is a computer?
What is an algorithm?
These two components are the foundations of 21st century parametricism. Of them we have potential for geometric ingenuity, delicate variability and endless looping. In due time, the computer and the algorithm will be attributed to engendering the most polemical, most chaotic period of recorded architectural history.
[a flux proposal by Shota Vashakmadze, Patrick Di Rito, and James Murray]
A field of light and air, described by shadows and the ephemeral sway of balloons is activated by the presence and intentions of sovereign participants; caught in a fragile moment, an unknown lamina of familiar gestures. //
Design. Do Good.
Bringing good to the world. That is the potential of design. Design can achieve.
An Interview with Danielle Roney…
While the Georgia Tech lecture series is not yet complete, it is evident that many professionals believe that the future of practice lies in computer generated forms (buildings or not) and to continue to believe in an autonomous pedagogy that ignores the many other contributing factors to the built environment that are crucial to the foundation of architecture such as the struggling economy, foreclosure and the realization that architects have no perceived value to other 99% of society.
