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11.29.2012
11.07.2012
Nat Chard
Just found Nat Chard's blog. A small goldmine for guys like me (I tried to find a way to describe "guys like me" in a humble, objective and maybe unpretentious way for a minute or two now... unsuccessful).
Inspiring and beautiful stuff!
Inspiring and beautiful stuff!
11.06.2012
Mechanical Artifact
The end result of the workshop I've been holding at Lund School of Architecture.
Project brief (short version):
The artifact should not be seen as a functional product that solves a problem or is suitable for a specific need. It’s task can be extremely banal or even useless. This statement creates a generative oxymoron as the artifact get a meaningless purpose.
Instead of focusing on function this task takes aim on material-connetions, interaction, mechanics and kinetics.
Project brief (short version):
The artifact should not be seen as a functional product that solves a problem or is suitable for a specific need. It’s task can be extremely banal or even useless. This statement creates a generative oxymoron as the artifact get a meaningless purpose.
Instead of focusing on function this task takes aim on material-connetions, interaction, mechanics and kinetics.
10.30.2012
RIP Lebbeus Woods
Professor Woods past away this morning...
His memory will live on through his great writings and drawings. A great inspiration for many of us. Rest in peace
10.26.2012
Henry Stephens
What happens when a New Zealander goes to school in Denmark and does an project in Germany? Strange things start to appear...
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10.10.2012
Mechanical Artifact Exhibition
The result of my first workshop is now exhibited in the grand exhibition hall at the Lund School of Architecture.
more images here
10.09.2012
Western Harbour Site Analysis
After a long blog-draught I'm back on track. Had a water+computer mishap about a month ago and have, since then, been un-computerized. Got my new laptop yesterday and have since then been trying to get my files sorted and my software installed.
Found a nice site analysis from my last project that I wanted to share and I also have some wonderful studentwork, soon to be published. For those of you who didn't knew, I've been teaching first year students at Lund School of Architecture for a month now, and I love it!
Found a nice site analysis from my last project that I wanted to share and I also have some wonderful studentwork, soon to be published. For those of you who didn't knew, I've been teaching first year students at Lund School of Architecture for a month now, and I love it!
9.24.2012
Axonometric production collage
Aditional drawing to the Food and Architecture project, describing the internal processes of the machines in relation to the whole structure.
9.17.2012
Archfilm Lund
International Architecture Film Festival in Lund, Sweden, ArchFilmLund 2012, October 5-12th
For the program see: www.archfilmlund.se
For the program see: www.archfilmlund.se
Mater Degree Project Exhibition
A bit late information but still worth mentioning
Reblogged from LAS*12
On Friday September 14, after the lectures, there will be a Vernissage for the Master Degree Project Exhibition in the A-building foyer.
Caroline Lundin and Mats Håkansson will be exhibiting their projects produced at the Bartlett (London) and at the Royal Academy (Copenhagen)
9.07.2012
LAS*12, T minus 7
If I haven't told you before I'm currently working as a project manager for Lund School of Architecture, and my job is to arrange Lund Architecture Symposium, in collaboration with the board of education.
Next Friday it's going down!
I'm super thrilled to have been able to hand-pick a group of people that are really inspiring, and who are showing such a broad spectrum of aproaches to architecture.
Make sure to show up next Friday and even more important, come see the discussion on Saturday, thats usually when the sparks ignite!
8.31.2012
8.15.2012
8.09.2012
Cartography Tokyo
A few of my drawings were published in a booklet now during spring, but I have been to caught up with other things to mention it here on the blog.
The drawing are made in March 2011 and the process can be seen here
8.02.2012
machines and information science
Functional elements are the most beautiful ornaments.
A facade clad with tubes, ladders, wire, reinforcements, chimneys, platforms, rails, antennas so dense that you don't know if it is a facade or if it just a continuos complexity, is a thrilling one. The most fantastic thing about such a design (looking at an old steel plant) is that it is not designed. It is just a pragmatic response to a need, optimized for a certain condition.
When these functions can take advantage of one another and be strengthened form their co-relation, the architecture can be regarded as a system, rather that a building.
Information science is a more beautiful word for system analysis and is a cross disciplinary set of science branches reaching from computer science to social science. The way in which we use the same tools to analyze architecture, computers and social life triggers new possibilities in approaching a conceptual "design"-phase
Architecture should dare to be more naked. I would even dare to encourage exaggerating programmatic functions. Making the system evident and intriguing.
I'm not saying this project (below) is based on information science but it's quite a beautiful project and a successful restoration of a steel plant. Treating the remains humbly and respectfully embedding it in new subordinate structures.
Horno3 in Monterrey, Mexico by Grimshaw Architects.
A facade clad with tubes, ladders, wire, reinforcements, chimneys, platforms, rails, antennas so dense that you don't know if it is a facade or if it just a continuos complexity, is a thrilling one. The most fantastic thing about such a design (looking at an old steel plant) is that it is not designed. It is just a pragmatic response to a need, optimized for a certain condition.
When these functions can take advantage of one another and be strengthened form their co-relation, the architecture can be regarded as a system, rather that a building.
Information science is a more beautiful word for system analysis and is a cross disciplinary set of science branches reaching from computer science to social science. The way in which we use the same tools to analyze architecture, computers and social life triggers new possibilities in approaching a conceptual "design"-phase
Architecture should dare to be more naked. I would even dare to encourage exaggerating programmatic functions. Making the system evident and intriguing.
I'm not saying this project (below) is based on information science but it's quite a beautiful project and a successful restoration of a steel plant. Treating the remains humbly and respectfully embedding it in new subordinate structures.
Horno3 in Monterrey, Mexico by Grimshaw Architects.
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