Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
ANA REWAKOWICZ
Participating Artists/Designers: Ana Rewakowicz
Ukrainian artist Ana Rewakowicz creates inflatable garments which function as mobile architecture, such as the SleepingBagDress, which transforms into a shelter for up to two people, interrogating the boundaries of the body and the environment.
SUPER STUDIO
Participating artists/designers: Adolfo Natalini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Alessandro Magris, Roberto Magris and Gian Piero Fassinelli.
Superstudio were born in the context of utopian European architecture of the 1960s and 1970s. Fundamentally they strived to develop a new paradigm for the city through discourse and conceptual visuals, rendered drawings and photo montages.
ARCHIZOOM
Archizoom were key players in the design movement loosely known as ‘Radical Architecture’: a form of practice where built outcomes gave way to propositional design projects. Like Archigram and Superstudio, they aimed to challenge concepts of the city through ideas rather than fixed structure architectural design.
ATELIER BOW-WOW
Participating artists/designers: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima
Atelier Bow Wow are a Japanese architecture firm concerned with lived space. One of their most famous projects, Pet Architecture attempts to catalogue buildings in Tokyo sprouting up in irregular spaces between established buildings. These structures represent a kind of ‘schizophrenia’ in the urban planning of Japan. Made in Tokyo, is a similar taxonomical undertaking with Tokyo’s urban landscape as its subject.
Click here and follow the instructions.
Atelier Bow-Wow
Atelier Bow-Wow on Archinect
DIMBOOLA RURAL TOWNS URBAN DESIGN PROJECT
Participating Artists/Designers:
The Urban Architecture Laboratory (RMIT Architecture)
A project run byt the Urban Architecture Laboratory, run by RMIT’s Architecture department, designed to rejuvenate the landscape of Dimboola by employing rural design methods.
RURAL STUDIO
Participating Artists/Designers: Rural Studio (Studio based at Auburn University dedicated to exploring design solutions for rural Alabama)
The Rural Studio was set up by Auburn University to introduce students to the concept of totally immersing themselves within the design process, a goal achieved by requiring the students to move into a community where they will design and build a project that will form part of the town. In this way, the design process comes from within rather than outside.
TERROIR
Participating Artists/Designers: Terroir
Australian practice TERRIOR broadens the traditional scope of architecture by investigating the notion of cultural boundaries in a globalised society.
OLAFUR ELIASSON
Participating Artists/Designers: Olafur Eliasson
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson creates site-specific installations and artworks which investigate the tensions between nature and technology, the individual and the environment.
BUS SHELTER HOUSE BY SEAN GODSELL
Participating Artists/Designers: Sean Godsell
The Bus Shelter House by architect Sean Godsell is a prototype for a functional bus shelter which can be converted into emergency overnight accommodation. The structure raises issues about homelessness and its relationship to concepts of place in an urban context.
WATERCUBE
Participating Artists and Designers: PTW Architects
The Water Cube, also known as the Beijing National Aquatics Centre, was designed by Sydney architectural firm PTW Architects in conjunction with the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The organic exterior of the building is made of ETFE bubbles and resembles the formation of soap bubbles, hence its name.