Malmö way back when...

I'm currently learning the art of conceptual cartography in school. Due to this I've found a growing interest to examine maps of various type.

I remember when I was a young boy, I could spend hours browsing through my World Atlas. But I never became interested in geography, not at all. The interesting parts, for me, as I remember it, were the maps of density in population, the maps of temperature and the maps of valuables, such as metals, gems and oil. The ones that didn't describe the physical conditions that are obvious, but the ones where the more hidden and dynamic aspects are described.

For my current semester I'm studying a site in central town of Malmö, Sweden. While looking for information about the historical growth of Malmö, I found a great collection of historic maps over the city on the City Planning Offices website.

These maps are dating:

1871

1874

1894

Jorinde Voigt

This German artist intrigues me and my love for perfectionist drawings.

Her drawings has a mathematic touch and the communicate extraordinary spatiality with the simplest of tools. These drawings are made with ink, oil crayon and pencil on paper (258x208cm)

pictures are taken from http://jorindevoigt.com/blog/

Petra Kempf

I found an architect who works in a similar manner to how we are taught in department 6, regarding the analyze of the city. The outcome of her analysis is a beautiful graphic material, with lots of depth (both literary and metaphorically).

Check out some of her earlier work and an interview on archdaily.

Pamphlet Architecture

I found a publication called Pamphlet Architecture when looking for inspirational material by Smout Allen. I started to read further about this publication my pulse rise and I got childishly excited when I read: "Pamphlet Architecture helped launch the careers architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid"

Yeah!

I found a compilation of issue 1-10 on amazon and ordered directly. If it fulfills my expectations, issue 11-20 will be ordered shortly.

ISBN-10: 1568981260
ISBN-13: 978-1568981260

Reflections

Last week I presented my project for a jury of 7 teachers from my school.
I received reflections, critique, feedback and comments on my work. Both good and bad. And now a week later I, myself have got some time to reflect upon what I have done i.e. "the end result" and what was said during the presentation. The thing that goes against my concept the most is the fact that my project actually ended up in a plain old modernist box. Perpendicular wall-floor-roof relations. Even though some exciting things happens within the building and between the building and the context, I feel that I would have needed to take it further and blow up "the box".
I always tend to rationalize... unfortunately.
New project starting tomorrow. New cool ideas bubbeling and new energy has been stored during a lazy week.