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Jun 25, 20080
Tesselion:Adaptive Quadrilateral Flat panelization
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Skylar Tibbits: Tesselion is a project by Skylar Tibbits which proposes a system of flat panel tessellation derived from complex surfaces to enable ease in constructability and a directly evolved spatial environment through lighting, programmatic adaptation and structural simplicity. Each panel’s uniqueness is afforded by the efficiency of digital fabrication while coded parametric relationships allow an emergent structural efficiency, from a single panel to the complete adaptability of the surface as a whole. read more
May 26, 20080
ATMOSPHERICS, By Hani Rashid
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PHILLIPS DE PURY & COMPANY,
Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the groundbreaking exhibition Atmospherics, by Asymptote founder Hani Rashid. The works presented in this important show embody Asymptote’s radical architecture practice built on hybridity and spatial explorations. All of the works in the show are linked by their shared, formal exploration of objects subjected to speed and movement such as auto bodies or aerospace prototypes.
May 16, 20080
UPenn Selects Next Dean:Marilyn Jordan Taylor of SOM-NY
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A Message from President Amy Gutmann and Provost Ron Daniels
We are writing to inform you that we have selected to be the next Dean of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, effective October 1, 2008. Marilyn Taylor, Partner in Charge of the Urban Design and Planning Practice at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP and the first woman to serve as Chairman of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, is internationally known for her distinguished and passionate involvement in the design of large-scale urban projects and civic initiatives. Over a 35 year career with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, she has led many of the firm’s largest and most complex projects around the world. She was also both the first architect and the first woman to serve as chairman (2005-07) of the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research and educational institution, where she championed a renewed focus on cities, sustainable communities, and infrastructure investment. read more
Apr 22, 20080
Event: FIBER architecture, textile structures, computation and biology
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FIBER architecture, textile structures, computation and biology
Jenny E. Sabin with Peter Lloyd Jones and Philip Beesley
April 21 - 25, 2008
Opening: April 24, 6 - 9pm
Apr 16, 20080
[C] Space-ADRLTen Pavilion:Update
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[C]space is the winning competition entry in the ‘AADRLTen’ Pavilion project, an advanced technology concrete structure that will be erected in Bedford Square,London. The AADRL10 exhibition will open on the 22 February 2008 and the Pavilion will officialy open on 13 March 2008 along with the release of the DRL10 Book. The structure is being designed and developed by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang with Adams Kara Taylor and members of the DRL.
via> c space pavilion blogspot
Apr 15, 20080
Biomimetics: Design by Nature
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An electron micrograph reveals sharkskin’s secret to speed: tooth-like scales called dermal denticles. Water “races through the microgrooves without tumbling,” says shark researcher George Burgess, reducing friction. “It’s like a fast-moving river current versus the gurgling turbulence of a shallow stream.” The scales also discourage barnacles and algae from glomming on—an inspiration for synthetic coatings that may soon be applied to Navy ship hulls to reduce such biofouling.
What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering.
via> National Geographic (April 2008)
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Mar 31, 20080
French Architect Wins Pritzker Prize
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Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in
Via-www.nytimes.com
Jan 28, 20080
Global Cities as 3D surface
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Overcrowding never looked so attractive. As part of the Tate Modern’s current exhibition, Global Cities, on display in the gallery’s vast Turbine Hall, is a series of intriguing “density models”. The plywood structures were created by a team of designers and architects at the London School Of Economics, led by Professor Richard Burdett. The models are shaped around the outlines of each city, with each layer of plywood representing an extra 200 people per square kilometre. We spoke to the team behind their creation… read more
Dec 13, 20070
DRAGONFLY:EMERGENT / Buro Happold
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Inspired by the cellular morphology of the wing of an insect, DRAGONFLY is a highly irregular grid-shell that cantilevers 35ft (10m) from its supports. Both the overall form and the patterning of tessellations were developed through an adaptive approach that looked for emergent force path and deformation characteristics.
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